Animal companions in PFS play: point buy?

[JonB]

HeroLab (even on "PFS Play" setting) allows considerable flexability re. companion animals, including point buy customisation of ability scores & choice of feats. Is this genuinely PFS legal, or a blip?

[godsDMit]

Animal companion stats are set. Each one has a listed set of stats in the source they appear in.

Feats are able to be chosen by the player, though only ones that the animal can legally have.

[JonB]

Thank you.

[Flutter]

Welcome to the pathfinder non humanoid pathfinder companions local. Please take a pamphlet

[Nefreet]

I would strongly suggest avoiding using HeroLab as a rules source.

If you can steer away from it now, you'll save yourself myriad headaches and possible illegal characters later.

[LazarX]

Companions like Familiars, are restricted to Bestiary stats. You run them right as they are out of the book, save for specific adjustments applied by your class abilities.

[godsDMit]

LazarX wrote:

Companions like Familiars, are restricted to Bestiary stats. You run them right as they are out of the book, save for specific adjustments applied by your class abilities.

Wellllll, yes and no.

Yes, cause both sets of stats come from the Bestiary.

No, cause the familiar likely only has a single set of stats in the book, whereas an animal companion has 2 oftentimes. One for general monster use, and another for when it is an animal companion.