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It's a part of the caster's body that can't be separately targeted. If the caster dies, the familiar counts as dead too. But hopefully your party will raise the caster, in which case your familiar (still a part of their body) will also be raised. Unless they use Reincarnate. Then your familiar is gone, because you aren't reincarnated with your tattoos.
If you're talking about when it's in regular familiar form rather than tattoo form, then yes. It can die then, there's no rule otherwise. But as long as it stays in tattoo form it won't die without your character dying.
While it is a tattoo... it is simply a tattoo.
When it is a familiar... it is simply a familiar.
Can a familiar die?
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Alright, so it looks like if it's in tattoo form, other than granting the caster the familiar bonuses, it's just a tattoo. It can't be targeted or take any action other than to transform itself back into an actual creature.
So I'd say that if the caster is killed while the familiar is a tattoo it doesn't matter for the familiar, it's the caster who's dead. If the familiar dies while it's in it's familiar form, then it's dead because at the time it was a creature that could be targeted and take actions so it's just like any other familiar that can die.
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Can you provide more info, such as the feat/ability text or at least what book it's out of.That's referring to the Tattooed Sorcerer from Inner Sea Magic.
I'm quite glad for the clarification on this as well. On a related note, could a Tattooed Sorcerer 'call' his/her dead familiar back to tattoo form, to try and raise later (like if it was killed in the middle of a dungeon, and they needed to get someplace safe, for example)? Would being in tatt form for X amount of time count as 'time dead' for raising purposes, or would it be 'in stasis' until then?
I don't think that the caster can "call" her familiar back into tattoo form. The ability says that it's a move action on the familiars part to turn into a tattoo and back again. So if the tattoo is dead it can't take the required move action to turn into a tattoo.
Sorry for the lack of reference, I guess then to replace just use the replace a normal familiar and then it becomes a different tattoo, and by inference improved familiar will just replace the old tattoo image. Thanks for the input.
Sorry for the lack of reference, I guess then to replace just use the replace a normal familiar and then it becomes a different tattoo, and by inference improved familiar will just replace the old tattoo image. Thanks for the input.
Yep!