vmc and favored class bonus

[Hogeyhead]

Can you take an alternate favored class bonus for your variant multi class class?

Say I'm a wizard, but variant multiclass magus, and my favored class is magus, could I take an alternate favored class bonus for my race for magus? Or do I not count as magus 'enough'?

[kestral287]

You are a Wizard, not a Magus.

[Hogeyhead]

Is there a page that I could read for that? Also would I qualify for the extra magus arcana then?

[kestral287]

Literally by definition, a "secondary class" and a "class" are not the same thing.

That said, you qualify for Extra Arcana. You have the "Magus Arcana" class feature.

[Hogeyhead]

Hmmm, thank you.

[LazarX]

Hogeyhead wrote:

Can you take an alternate favored class bonus for your variant multi class class?

Say I'm a wizard, but variant multiclass magus, and my favored class is magus, could I take an alternate favored class bonus for my race for magus? Or do I not count as magus 'enough'?

No, because you're only taking class levels in wizard. You're getting features from magus, not the magus class levels.

[Drimoran]

Hogeyhead wrote:

Can you take an alternate favored class bonus for your variant multi class class?

Say I'm a wizard, but variant multiclass magus, and my favored class is magus, could I take an alternate favored class bonus for my race for magus? Or do I not count as magus 'enough'?

Pathfinder Unchained makes no mention of this. But RAI I would allow it, since this is a variant of the regular multiclassing, and regular multiclassing allows you to do this.

As you are not getting the entire class, you could allow this just in certain levels, for example, those in which you get the VMC class features, every four levels, or every two levels. Up to you.

I would allow to get this at every single level as long as the favored class bonus affected one of the VMC class features, since I dont think favored class bonuses can be a something that breaks the game (with certain execptions). Also they take many levels to make a difference