Animal companion and personal spell


Rules Questions


Under "Share Spell" I can cast personal and non-animal spells on my companion as long as they are from a class that grants animal companions. Can the spell come from a wand or scroll if it comes from the companion granting spell list, or must it come from that classes daily allotment?


PRD (Summoner) wrote:
Spells cast in this way must come from the summoner spell list.
PRD (Druid) wrote:
Spells cast in this way must come from a class that grants an animal companion.

Depends on what the entry states. Summoners can only use spells from the Summoner spell list with Share Spells. Druids (or Rangers) can only use spells from their class list when using Share Spells (though one could argue based on wording that maybe a Druid could UMD a Ranger-exclusive spell and have it work with Share Spells). Wizards have no such restriction in their entry, so conceivably, a Wizard could UMD a divine wand and cast it on his/her familiar (where a Druid could not with an arcane wand).

Now, however your home game chooses to deal with that might be another matter. RAW though appears to depends upon the class granting the animal companion/familiar/eidolon.

As for whether the spell used has to come from spell slots, no. It just has to be a spell cast from the relevant spell list (assuming the class's version of Share Spells is so restricted).


Could a hunter use UMD to use a wand of long arm on his animal companion. Long arm is on the Bloodrager(Bloodrider) spell list and it receives an animal companion.


Talk to your GM. Frankly, I think the class restriction re: spell source for Share Spells is probably something most GMs are either unaware of or simply handwave.

If I were being a stickler and ruling on it, I'd probably say the intent to me seems to be that the spell should be from the class list of the class that grants the relevant animal companion. So, if you're a Hunter and the spell is not on the Hunter spell list, then no.

Dark Archive

But what actually happens if you cast Long Arm on an animal? Does it have no effect if they don't have arms and therefore can only be cast on bipedal animals or what?

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

Using a magic item is not casting a spell, it's using a magic item.

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