[PFS] Aberrant Tumor and Improved Familiar

[Yiroep]

Two little questions:

1. Does the feat Aberrant Tumor eventually qualify you for Improved Familiar as a sorcerer or bloodrager?

2. If so, is the Improved Familiar still a Tumor Familiar?

[Byakko]

General consensus is:
1. Yes.
2. Yes.

Don't think about it too hard.

[LazarX]

1. No... the prerequisite for the feat is the ability to acquire a new famillir. The only thing your class CAN get is what you have already.

2. See above.

[Byakko]

"If a tumor familiar is lost or dies, it can be replaced 1 week later through a specialized procedure that costs 200 gp per alchemist level."

That certainly sounds like the ability to acquire a new familiar to me.

[LazarX]

Byakko wrote:

"If a tumor familiar is lost or dies, it can be replaced 1 week later through a specialized procedure that costs 200 gp per alchemist level."

That certainly sounds like the ability to acquire a new familiar to me.

Save that it's not a new familiar but the SAME type. If a Wizard loses his toad one week, he can summon an owl some days later. The owl would be the new familiar. If I also remmber correctly, alchemists are not considered spellcasters. Improved Familliar has the pre-req Spellcaster Level X, depending on what you want.

[Byakko]

LazarX wrote:

Byakko wrote:

"If a tumor familiar is lost or dies, it can be replaced 1 week later through a specialized procedure that costs 200 gp per alchemist level."

That certainly sounds like the ability to acquire a new familiar to me.

Save that it's not a new familiar but the SAME type. If a Wizard loses his toad one week, he can summon an owl some days later. The owl would be the new familiar. If I also remmber correctly, alchemists are not considered spellcasters. Improved Familliar has the pre-req Spellcaster Level X, depending on what you want.

Hmmn, where does it say a wizard can acquire a new, and different, type of familiar? From what I'm reading, the wording for a wizard's familiar is the same as an alchemist's tumor familiar when it comes to replacement.

I know there's been long threads about alchemists' caster level, but in general: "The alchemist uses his level as the caster level to determine any effect based on caster level." I believe this would also apply in regards to his tumor familiar.