Familiars and Temporary Con Boosts


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Silver Crusade

So say I have a level 8 wizard with a familiar.

A skald starts singing, and my familiar accepts the rage. What bonus hit points would he get from the +2 con boost, if any?


Familiars gain no HP from their con. But if you accepted the song your familiar would gain half the HP you gained.


Chess Pwn is correct. A familiar's total hp is always half of its masters hp. If the masters total is increased or decreased for whatever reason, the familiar's total hp changes accordingly.


Familiars don't benefit from temporary hit points on the master of course.

By pure RAW, I think that for a temp con bonus, only one on the master not the familiar would apply. I'm not sure this is intended, and doing it differently would be a reasonable house rule.

Silver Crusade

So the Familiars max HP is always a dynamic pool based off of the masters?

So if the wizard took negative levels or suffered from CON damage, the familiars health would scale down with his?

Seems weird but I guess thats how its written RAW. The only thing I can find that breaks that trend is the Mauler Familiar's "Mauler's Endurance" feat


and maulers familiar references the master's hit die, showing that familiar HP is all off of the master.

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