Requesting Clarification regarding Wizard School Options from Inner Sea Primer


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Dark Archive

I've been looking to build myself a new PFS character for some time now and, because I'm a fan of Cheliax and devils, I've tentatively settled on the Egorian Academy Infernal Binder from Inner Sea Primer. However, upon looking into feat options, I've run into a couple of points where I'm not entirely clear on...

Notably, I'm eyeing the Academae Graduate feat from the Curse of the Crimson Throne Player's Guide (kindly ignore for the sake of this discussion the fact that it's tied to an entirely different wizard school :p) and the School Familiar feat line from the new Familiar Folio. The former requires "Specialist Wizard level 1st; cannot have conjuration as a forbidden (or rather 'prohibited,' post 3.5) school" and the latter the "Specialized arcane school class feature".

My question is this: Does an Egorian Academy Infernal Binder, which functions as a Conjuration Specialist Wizard in most ways, legally count as such for the purposes of qualifying for the above feats?


It is a specialist wizard. It just uses an archetype. I see no reason why it would not count.


If you're not an universalist, you're a specialist.

Unless you have an archetype that removes the Arcane school class feature, in which case you cannot choose to specialize in an arcane school - and thus you cannot be a specialist.

Dark Archive

Good to hear.

That's essentially how I was viewing the matter as well, but I have a tendency to fixate on little details and blow them well out of proportion in my head, so I wanted to float the question to make sure there wasn't anything I was overlooking.

Thanks for the responses.

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