Your familiar is no mere beast, but instead a loyal servant.
Prerequisite: Ability to acquire a new familiar.
Benefit: When choosing a new familiar, you may choose to have a willing humanoid function as your familiar. A servant familiar is treated as a commoner with the magus secondary class, with a character equal to their master's class level and gains only the special benefits provided to familiars, excluding the ability to speak with creatures of their kind, not increases to natural armor or intelligence.
It seems less useful than the Instructor Archetype. Although not all Classes that can acquire a Familiar have the Bonded Item ability.
It seems less useful than the Instructor Archetype. Although not all Classes that can acquire a Familiar have the Bonded Item ability.
Huh. I never noticed that archetype before. Thank you for pointing it out.
What your feat does is quite vague. I have no idea how it works.
I don't know what zero no tsukima is but I assume a book/move/show/comic. :)
I think I got the intent: the spellcaster has a servant/assistant/friend who is less powerful than a cohort (from the Leadership feat) or another party member. Probably not 100% competent in battle, but useful in for utilitarian purposes (like a familiar).
What I don't quite understand is the feat how the feat works mechanically. And while I'm not sure what a secondary class is, I also don't think you should be able to trade a familiar for a magus of your level.
The reference to Magus as a secondary class is probably in regard to the Variant Multiclassing rules in Pathfinder Unchained. The main problem with this option is that the VMC Magus does not synergize well with non-spellcaster classes, so it is of limited use to somebody who otherwise functions as a Commoner.
I think a more useful approach might be to take the 3rd party feat Personal Guardian and tweak things from there, using the Instructor archetype of the Wizard class as a model.
So, at 1st level, this cohort would be a 1st level Commoner with the standard NPC array of ability scores. When your Wizard reaches 2nd level, the cohort freely and automatically retrains into a 1st level Warrior. When the Wizard's leadership score permits him to actually qualify for a cohort of 1st level or higher, the cohort freely and automatically retrains into a PC class and his ability scores are upgraded to the heroic array. From that point on, he advances as a standard cohort.
In addition, I would allow that Personal Guardian feat to count as Leadership for the purpose of prerequisites in order for him to qualify for other useful feats (such as Legendary Leader (Intelligence), another 3rd party feat).
But how does a VMC Magus built on a Commoner do spell combat? He has no spellcasting ability whatsoever!