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Should point out those are not the only legal sources, there are a number of animals from the Animal Archives are legal, and quite useful. A Bison is probably the best pack animal you can buy, just don't be the guy that brings a trampling bison to a level 1-2 scenario.
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Its legal. The big problem for a non critter class is that without the link telling your dog to attack or flank is a move action. That can limit your possibilities.
You'd need a full round action and a dc 25 handle animal check to have it attack anything other than humanoids, monstrous humanoids, giants, or other animals.
Getting it trained with flank and the attack trick twice would apparently require training it yourself. or (theres a slightly fuzzy place in the rules here) retraining it to drop some other tricks and learn attack a second time and flank at the cost of some other tricks.
You can only teach it one trick per rank in handle animal you have, which makes getting a combat trained critter that isn't bought that way a rather slow process at low levels.
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Its legal. The big problem for a non critter class is that without the link telling your dog to attack or flank is a move action. That can limit your possibilities.
You'd need a full round action and a dc 25 handle animal check to have it attack anything other than humanoids, monstrous humanoids, giants, or other animals.
Getting it trained with flank and the attack trick twice would apparently require training it yourself. or (theres a slightly fuzzy place in the rules here) retraining it to drop some other tricks and learn attack a second time and flank at the cost of some other tricks.
You can only teach it one trick per rank in handle animal you have, which makes getting a combat trained critter that isn't bought that way a rather slow process at low levels.
With my character I hopefully have a high enough perception to allow me to act in a surprise round so I can order my dog to attack and if not I will do whatever nessary to get my flank bonus (I.e. move into position then have him attack etc) I see no reason to try and change it as long as your smeary enough to think ahead and don't get crappy rolls.
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I was asking because I wanted to get a guard dog for up to like level 3 and use him as a flanking buddy for my Core Rogue but was sure if it was pfs legal or not
The flank trick doesn't exist in the Core Campaign, so if that's what you meant by a Core Rogue, the GM can decide whether or not a dog knows to flank when ordered to attack. However a guard dog from the CRB is a legal purchase.
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With my character I hopefully have a high enough perception to allow me to act in a surprise round so I can order my dog to attack and if not I will do whatever nessary to get my flank bonus (I.e. move into position then have him attack etc) I see no reason to try and change it as long as your smeary enough to think ahead and don't get crappy rolls.
That will only work in one out of, say, 20 or so scenarios.
Also, you'll need to teach your pet the flank trick if you want it to specifically flank with you, otherwise it will make a bee-line for the enemy you point at and you'll be spending your moves to get around it into a flanking position (in addition to the aforementioned comment about needing to teach it a second attack trick).
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claude's right on that point.
Fairly often the NPCs know you're coming and have preparations like invisibility to make the dcs pretty hard to spot
DMs LOVE their surprise rounds. Didn't announce your eyes were open. SURPRISE! Didn't say you were looking for that ambush for that ambush, SURPRISE! Fight starts. SURPRISE ROUND! BACKSTAB.