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So I am wanting to do a Tengu Shaman. Stats would be as follows;
STR: 10
DEX: 16
CON: 12
INT: 14
WIS: 16
CHA: 10
I wanted to do the Flame Shaman Spirit option. I understand how to build him and all and I have everything planned out to how I want him, but I can not figure out how the Spirit Animal thing works fully. I just sort of do not get the concept with that sort of thing. It works like a familiar it says:
At 1st level, a shaman forms a close bond with a spirit animal tied to her chosen spirit. This animal is her conduit to the spirit world, guiding her along the path to enlightenment. The animal also aids a shaman by granting her a special ability. A shaman must commune with her spirit animal each day to prepare her spells. While the spirit animal does not store the spells like a witch's familiar does, the spirit animal serves as her conduit to divine power. If a shaman's spirit animal is slain, she cannot prepare new spells or use her spirit magic class feature until the spirit animal is replaced.
Spirit Animal
By communing with the incredible powers of her spirit, the shaman forges a cherished bond with one specific servant of that spirit—known as a spirit animal. A spirit animal is a creature chosen by a shaman to serve as a conduit, allowing her to more fully access the magic of her spirit on a daily basis. The shaman's spirit animal also grants her special powers. This ability uses the same rules as the wizard's arcane bond class feature and is treated as a familiar, except as noted below.
A shaman uses her level as her effective wizard level when determining the abilities of her spirit animal. A shaman can select any familiar available to wizards to serve as her spirit animal, although her spirit animal is augmented by the power of her chosen spirit. Once selected, the spirit animal cannot be changed. Although a shaman's spirit animal uses the statistics of a specific animal, it is treated as an outsider with the native subtype for the purposes of spells and abilities that affect it.
So it should grant the same boons as a regular familiar if I am not mistaken? If so I want my Tengu to have a Chicken and get the bonus 3 hit points. Also bird so yeah.
Anyway, I just sort of am a bit flummoxed with all of this and was wondering if anyone could help me figure out how my chicken spirit animal would stack up. Sorry if I am completly being dumb and wasting anyone's time. I just really can not seem to get my head around building familiars and summoned things and all that. Thank you for any help y'all can give me and happy gaming to you all.
It's kind of a fusion between a wizard's and witch's familiar. Yes, you get the bonuses a wizard would (not sure if witches normally do or not), but it's also your "spellbook" like a witch's familiar. It also gets a bonus ability based on your spirit (flame, in this case)
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It's kind of a fusion between a wizard's and witch's familiar. Yes, you get the bonuses a wizard would (not sure if witches normally do or not), but it's also your "spellbook" like a witch's familiar. It also gets a bonus ability based on your spirit (flame, in this case)
Okay that is cool. Love that I get the bonus hit points. Planning on doing the usual caster thing and taking Toughness as his first feat. So starting HP would be the d8 + con 1 + the favored class bonus 1 + toughness 3 + chicken bonus 3 = 16 hit points. Not bad at all for a starting caster. And since familiars always have half your hit points the chicken would have 8 if i am not mistaken. And stats stay the same as the normal chicken but Int goes up correct?
Thanks for the help and happy gaming to you. Any more help would be greatly appreciated.
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Chicken stat block, with higher natural armor, higher Int, better saves (for each save, the chicken can use its own base fort +2, ref +2, will +0, or your base save, whichever is higher), better skills (The chicken has 1 (non-stacking) rank in Perception plus whatever skill ranks you have; it has the class skills of the Animal type), better attack bonus (using Dex to hit and your BAB), and whatever special abilities it gains for being a familiar and a spirit animal.
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Chicken stat block, with higher natural armor, higher Int, better saves (for each save, the chicken can use its own base fort +2, ref +2, will +0, or your base save, whichever is higher), better skills (The chicken has 1 (non-stacking) rank in Perception plus whatever skill ranks you have; it has the class skills of the Animal type), better attack bonus (using Dex to hit and your BAB), and whatever special abilities it gains for being a familiar and a spirit animal.
Thanks dude. That is a lot of good advice there. Thanks again and any other advice for dealing with Spirit Animals or anything would be great. Happy gaming and have a great day everyone.