Raktavarnas can transform into a small handheld object and, I assume, be worn or wielded as if they were that item.
Spirit Onis can be gained through Improved Familiar and then worn as a mask.
Are there any other ways to turn a familiar into an object/weapon and wear/wield them as such?
Well tattooed sorcerers turn their familiars into tattoos...
The Synthesist archetype of Summoner is entirely based around wearing your eidolon as power armour. I think that counts! :P
I think there's also a familiar you can get with Improved Familiar (I think it's a type of angel) that can become a helmet, though I don't think there are any special benefits to doing so other than the amusing novelty of wearing your familiar as a hat (and perhaps disguising it as such).
EDIT: It's a Cassisian angel. Its true (and preferred) form is a helmet that flutters on bird wings, so I figure you could have it on your head if so desired.
Tumor familiar is sort of wearable.
The celestial helmet thingy ? [Edit: Cassisian angel it is]
Also isn't there an optional item familiar somewhere? I.e. magical intelligent item as a familiar ?
Synthesist Summoner's eidolon power suit isn't very discreet, unfortunately. (and would require multiclassing with any class with a familiar. Also I don't think it's a good dip as far as I know?)
Cassian Angel maybe.
I haven't seen the intelligent item optional rule anywhere.
Synthesist Summoner's eidolon power suit isn't very discreet, unfortunately. (and would require multiclassing with any class with a familiar. Also I don't think it's a good dip as far as I know?)
Cassian Angel maybe.
I haven't seen the intelligent item optional rule anywhere.
a one level synthesist dip allow you to dump the physical stats and still be ok so for some classes it is not bad but generally the synthesist is a shamefull monster on unfinished rules.
I don't know if its in the rules (probably not), but the pipefox was a real animal in Japan (now extinct), and according to Japanese folklore, witches were known to keep their pipe foxes in the sleeves of their kimonos most of the time.
Note: the real world pipe fox, was a normal fox with very short legs (almost Dachsund like) that could easily fit in a pipe just larger than its head and shoulders.
there's familiar pouches where your familiar can hide in your pouch.
a one level synthesist dip allow you to dump the physical stats and still be ok so for some classes it is not bad but generally the synthesist is a shamefull monster on unfinished rules.
But then won't your BAB be stuck at +1 since a fused Summoner uses his Eidolon's BAB?
@game-printer and Bandw2
I'm not looking to just hide the familiar. I can already just wear it under a hat or in my clothes if I wanted to do that.
I'm looking at actually wield or wear it as something that's not just an animal.
well there's wearing it as a fur scarf, that shows up occasionally in media.
@game-printer and Bandw2
I'm not looking to just hide the familiar. I can already just wear it under a hat or in my clothes if I wanted to do that.
I'm looking at actually wield or wear it as something that's not just an animal.
I get that, my reference though is from actual folklore, and it wasn't so much hidng them as housing them in one's sleeves (traditionally that is how a pipefox is carried).
You could probably wear a mimic on your head as a hat, but then mimics aren't familiars and they'd probably just eat your head...
Flying Pincushion games has created for the Witch base class, an archetype that makes a piece of clothing your familiar, it is known as the Dweomer Weaver, and the book from which it comes is available from Paizo.com. Drivethru RPG, and PFSRD20 store. As it so happens I am the author of that particular piece. Alas currently I do not know of any wizard, magus (beyond black blade) or Sorc (other than tattoo familiar) that does this.
Well, pardon, bonded object for wizard does work on weapons, so that is sort of a weapon familiar, though falls short of what I would personally want a familiar item to do.
As well as rings and amulets, but still not really a familiar in the traditional sense.
It is also worth mentioning Dweomer Weaver's woven familiar functions as an actual familiar, with some additional neatness, and is not a bonded object like a wizard may have.
Gravewalker Witch gets a voodoo doll as a familiar lol
Voodoo dolls I can get behind, creepy and fun, bonus hehehe!
Did anyone mention the Ioun Wyrd yet? It's basically an intelligent Ioun Stone cluster. It would be super easy to disguise it as an amulet or the head of a magical staff.
Good call Doomed
Voodoo dolls I can get behind, creepy and fun, bonus hehehe!
Cool thing is tht it lets you deliver touch attacks as rangr touch instead lol
You're thinking of the Blade-bound Magus, whose sword is an intelligent sword that functions as a familiar in many ways.The celestial helmet thingy ? [Edit: Cassisian angel it is]
Also isn't there an optional item familiar somewhere? I.e. magical intelligent item as a familiar ?
Nope. I was thinking of 3.5 item familiars. Were these ever updated to PF? Maybe a 3pp product?
3.5 Ravenloft had rules for wearing a cloaker as a cloak. Great stuff.
I can't speak for other 3pp's but as noted before Flying Pincushion Games (which I co-own and write for) does have a witch archetype that has a real item familiar and not just a bonded item. Here is a link to the book.
Best part of it, our books are currently on sale on that site, so you can pick it up for half the normal cost.
you can't put links on paizo or else it will break them up, you need to linkify them by looking ta the how to format text below the submit post button.
::grumble:: fracking formatting ::grumble:: there fixed that, arrgg
Raktavarnas can transform into a small handheld object and, I assume, be worn or wielded as if they were that item.
Spirit Onis can be gained through Improved Familiar and then worn as a mask.Are there any other ways to turn a familiar into an object/weapon and wear/wield them as such?
Technically the bladebound magus uses a very special sword called a black blade that act a bit like a familiar.
The Arcanist also gets a black blade via archetypes lol
a one level synthesist dip allow you to dump the physical stats and still be ok so for some classes it is not bad but generally the synthesist is a shamefull monster on unfinished rules.But then won't your BAB be stuck at +1 since a fused Summoner uses his Eidolon's BAB?
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I think one of the 70 synthesist FAQs fix that.
And to the OP. There is also the option of crafting intelligent magic items. It wont be Familiars but you can have several if your GM allow it.
Yup, I think I found the faq for the synthesist summoner dipping.
Bladebound Magus/Arcanist are good, but they need to get to level three and the blackblades themselves are limited to a specific sort of weapon.
I had not heard of Ioun Wyrd! that is very interesting.
I might just have to go with intellegent item crafting for now. I'm sure something in the new occult book will have something close to what I want.
I know mythic has transformative familiar, which makes your familiar turn into an inteligent object.