Be an Eldritch Guardian Fighter. They share their combat feats with their familiar.
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There's a witch archetype that can trade in feats to grant their familiar feats. You could also check with your GM about using Recharge Innate Msgic on your familiar. But no, there isn't really a way to give them more SLA uses per day.
There's also a wizard archetype that grants its familiar feats, along with a different BAB/save progression.
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There's a witch archetype that lets you grant the feats you would normally gain to your familiar. Ah, here it is: Beast Bonded.
Edit: Pseudo-ninja'd
Spirit Binder is the wizard archetype QuidEst referred to.
Share Spells with Paragon Surge could add a feat too, if temporarily.
Familiar Basics: Use the basic statistics for a creature
of the familiar’s kind as described in the Pathfinder RPG
Bestiary, but with the following changes.
Hit Dice: For the purpose of effects related to number of
Hit Dice, use the master’s character level or the familiar’s
normal HD total, whichever is higher.
Next, give the creature additional feats. Creatures gain
one feat at 1 Hit Die and one additional feat for every 2 Hit
Dice above 1. Most additional feats should be focused on
increasing the creature’s combat abilities, but metamagic
feats and skill feats are also possible choices depending
on the creature’s role.
Basically, when you get a feat, so does your familiar.
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No Familiars catagorically do not gain HD or feats when you level up, and that is clearly not what the material you quote says
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Basically, when you get a feat, so does your familiar.
Hit Dice: For the purpose of effects related to number of
Hit Dice, use the master’s character level or the familiar’s
normal HD total, whichever is higher.
Unfortunately that is not the case. The section on familiars is referring to things like sleep spells etc. The familiar does NOT gain actual hit dice.
Hmm, I double-checked both the bestiary and core rulebook and can't find any grounds to your claim. I did notice the iconic witch familiar only has one feat, but then again society isn't know for proper RAW interpretations.
What do you have to support your claim?
Edit: I guess the question is now; is gaining a feat an effect related to HD?
The FIRST paragraph in the Familiar section has this:
A familiar is an animal chosen by a spellcaster to aid him in his study of magic. It retains the appearance, Hit Dice, base attack bonus, base save bonuses, skills, and feats of the normal animal it once was, but is now a magical beast for the purpose of effects that depend on its type. Only a normal, unmodified animal may become a familiar. An animal companion cannot also function as a familiar.
The familiar doesn't get extra animal skill points or improved base saves as the master levels up. It uses either its own (which NEVER improves on its own) or it uses the master's. Whichever is better.
The same is applied to feats. Except the familiar rules don't have anything to say about feats (except for those Familiar feats that can be swapped out with the familiar's base feats), so they don't get new ones as the master levels up.
The "effects related to number of Hit Dice" simply refer to effects being thrown at the familiar that are dependent on how many hit dice it has, such as sleep, color spray, detect alignment spells.
If you do a search on the forums for "Familars feats HD" you'd find a general consensus. the '+' sign doesn't seem to be working as of late.
Number of Feats is not an 'effect related to number of Hit Dice'; it is part of character progression. It is no more granted by this note than are HP, Saves or BAB (all of which are specifically called out as part of familiars).
Similarly, the familiar does not get the stat bump every 4 HD.
Thank you, Nicholas, for providing evidence of the mass consensus against no feats for familiars. While I find the lack of hard evidence depressing, arguing against the vast majority will not prove anything (for or against) this ruling.
@ Eigengrau: Every DM I have played with so far has allowed me to take feats for my familiar as I level, according to the above mentioned rules. Ask your GM what his opinion is, and go from there.
Take everything on these boards with a grain of salt. This is the internet, and people will go above and beyond to shove their opinion down your throat as fact.
@ everyone else: sorry for bringing up a dead horse. I'll let you rule your boards now
If you go Improved Familiar: Homunculus, you can give it feats by spending gold. Upgrade its native hit die (at 2,000 gp each), and for every 2 HD increase, get a feat.
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Be sure to check out the shaman's Mammoth true spirit ability
The shaman’s spirit animal transforms into a megafauna animal companion (Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook 51), using the shaman’s shaman level as her effective druid level. The shaman must choose an arsinoitheriumB2, a mastodon, a megalocerosB2, or another mammalian megafauna that has animal companion statistics. It retains its Intelligence score and the special abilities it gains from the spirit animal class feature, but it also has the statistics and abilities of an animal companion. If the animal companion is dismissed, lost, or dies, it can be replaced in the same way as a normal spirit animal.
Now its a familiar and an animal companion; albeit, it won't kick in until 16th level. Combined with the other suggestions mentioned (valet archetype, improved familiar, etc.) and you can max the number of feats it gets and get a dynamo-dino to boot.
Or if Valet isn't you flavor, you can save up for
a saddle. You'll have to go for the more exotic pricing than the base cost shown.
Aura faint transmutation; CL 5th Slot none; Price 12,000 gp; Weight 5 lbs.
This ornate military saddle, tooled with an elaborate equine motif, grants the mount a +5 competence bonus on Acrobatics checks and the mount’s rider a +5 competence bonus on Ride checks. In addition, the mount gains the benefits of any teamwork feats possessed by the rider.
So could i go eldritch guardian 2 lvls then wizard then eldritch knight ... I could use eld heritage to get be of familiar higher since eld knight doesnt increase familiar lvls.
This may be the best way of useing the shadow drake as a combat viable companion.
What feats would be most useful for a familiar? I was considering power attack dazing assault.
I like the shadow drake and it be cool to make it combat viable... Using spells and feats.
Sprite with ranged attacks could b powerful get a wand of gravity bow so on I'd prob go stait fighter for that for wp focus wp speciality use magic device for a few buffs
Basic Modifications states: Because a construct’s size is limited, a Hit Dice modification cannot increase its size. Therefore Hit Dice modification can never increase the base construct’s Hit Dice beyond 50% of its total HD.
However, no rule states the base HD must be what is in the Bestiary. Especially the Homunculus, which gives rules for non-standard ones.
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Hit Points: The familiar has half the master's total hit points (not including temporary hit points), rounded down, regardless of its actual Hit Dice.
Attacks: Use the master's base attack bonus, as calculated from all his classes. Use the familiar's Dexterity or Strength modifier, whichever is greater, to calculate the familiar's melee attack bonus with natural weapons. Damage equals that of a normal creature of the familiar's kind.
Saving Throws: For each saving throw, use either the familiar's base save bonus (Fortitude +2, Reflex +2, Will +0) or the master's (as calculated from all his classes), whichever is better. The familiar uses its own ability modifiers to saves, and it doesn't share any of the other bonuses that the master might have on saves.
Skills: For each skill in which either the master or the familiar has ranks, use either the normal skill ranks for an animal of that type or the master's skill ranks, whichever is better. In either case, the familiar uses its own ability modifiers. Regardless of a familiar's total skill modifiers, some skills may remain beyond the familiar's ability to use. Familiars treat Acrobatics, Climb, Fly, Perception, Stealth, and Swim as class skills.
BAB = Masters BAB, modify by own stats
HD = Best of Masters, Own
HP = 1/2 masters
Save = Best of Masters, Own, modified by own stats
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What kind of gear can u equip a familiar.. If there tiny..
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This is not in the rules, but I don't think it would unreasonable for the GM to allow you to use the Improved Familiar feat to give your regular familiar more hit dice.
What kind of gear can u equip a familiar.. If there tiny..There was a section somewhere either in the Familiar rules or in the Magic Items rules that told about what magic item slots can be used on your familiar.
Magic Item Slots for Animals is a table on the SRD showing this information.
Extra Item Slot from the Animal Archive gets the animal a slot not normally there. The Animal Archive has lots of rules for you.
/cevah
Sorcerer 4 [Serpentine] (Tattooed) / Fighter 3 (Eldritch Guardian)
This build has lower HP & BAB, .
1: gain a familiar from Familiar Tattoo
3: gain a viper familiar at level-2 from Serpentfriend
5: Fighter class increases the Tattoo familiar. Boon Companion increases Serpentine
9: Eldritch Heritage (Arcane) gives me another familiar at level-2
1—Weapon Finesse
1 [class]—Varisian Tattoo
1 [race]—Skill Focus: Knowledge (any)
3—Dervish Dance
5—Boon Companion (Serpentfriend)
7—Improved Familiar (Shadow Drake)
9—Eldritch Heritage (Arcane)
I think the familiar rules make all familiar options into the same familiar. There may be a way to get a second one, but that is iffy.
I suggest you double check your rules on familiar stacking. :-)
Now, getting many pets, one a familiar, one an animal companion, etc, is doable.
/cevah
Is a shadow drake a avian?
Then what is it on the list of magic slots for animals list?
Fly speed and wings. It's clearly avian.
Familiar Folio has a throwaway line on page 18 in the description of Familiar Bond feat: "You can never have more than one familiar."
I think the original idea was that a familiar was soulbound to the wizard, and it was not possible to bind your soul to more than one familiar. This is not a PF rule, mind you. Just something that has appeared in fiction.
At 1st level, an eldritch guardian gains a familiar, treating his fighter level as his effective wizard level for the purpose of this ability.
Your sorcerer levels stack with any wizard levels you possess when determining the powers of your familiar or bonded object.
Your levels stacks, you don't get 2 of them. All classes that grants familiar counts as wizards levels, and all go to the same "pool", improving your familiar but nevel granting more than one.
It can fly of course but its type is Dragon, I think. It has 4 claws/legs , wings and a tail. What is it you're asking exactly?
I'm asking what slots it has.. Which means I need to find out where it falls on the Magic slots for animals table.
It can fly of course but its type is Dragon, I think. It has 4 claws/legs , wings and a tail. What is it you're asking exactly?I'm asking what slots it has.. Which means I need to find out where it falls on the Magic slots for animals table.
It is a dragon, not an avian. What slots it gets is a different question. It looks like the text of the SRD comes from the animal archives and only covers what that book has. Psuedodragon has been an option since day one in the CRB and its omission is significant by showing the table only handles its own book.
That said, it does say:
Specific animals may be able to wear different types of items as specified in their original monster entry.
If you are using animal companions or familiars from another source, you can use the information in this table as a guideline for those creatures.
I do agree that the avian category is the closest fitting. However, literature has had reference to dragons wearing crowns, so you might add the head slot. Clothing is foreign to dragons, so that takes away the body slot. Likewise footwear, so no feet slot. I don't see reference to hands in the bestiary, so no hands slot. Its wings take up the location needed for the shoulders slot. Dragons disdain shields, or lack the ability to wield them. Either way, that slot is gone. Slotless is left, and they do get that.
The description mentions using its tail as a hand, so wand use is OK.
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