Alchemist plans RAW before consulting DM

[VoodooMonkey]

I have a Wayang Alchemist(chirurgeon) with lofty aspirations and was wondering if anyone knew any contradictions in the RAW to any of them.

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Plans:
1. Tumor Familiar Discovery-Monkey with Valet familiar archetype to help with crafting.
2 Spell Knowledge Discovery to count as an arcane caster at my level and/or Eldritch Heritage feat (Celestial Bloodline)once I get skill Focus:Heal at 5th
3. Take a level in witch after 6 levels in Alchemist so I count as a 7th level arcane spell caster...get a second familiar with Improved Familiar at 7th level power as my witch's patron familiar

4.Tear of Nuruu'gal Construction and bonding: 1 Level In Druid with Ooze Whisperer feat + Craft Ooze Feat which states: "even normally intelligent oozes like slithering trackers that are created this way have no Intelligence score"...so it allows for intelligent oozes to be crafted and gives it the prerequisite Int score to be affected by Ooze Whisperer...but would it have the associated powers as they were originally spawned by Nuruu'gal and "contain a portion of the creature's essence and foul sentience"...so I was wondering if it was far out of the realm of possibility of using the Awaken spell in conjunction with the appropriate power-related spells during crafting and infusing it with my own essence and sentience to make a "Tear of Lil Boom Boom" if you will...especially since infusing things like bombs and extracts with our magical essence is what we Alchemists do!

Lofty goals indeed!

[Andre Roy]

1. So far so good
2. You get 1 Arcane spell and your Caster Level is equal to your Alchemist level, but the discovery doesn't state that you "Count as an Arcane Caster".
3. Can't have multiple familiarm only 1. Classes level stat though.

FAQ wrote:

Sorcerer/Wizard: Can I dismiss my familiar so I may select a new familiar?

This isn't addressed in the rules anywhere, but yes, you should be able to dismiss a familiar if you want to select a new one. However, you must still wait 1 week and pay 200 gp for the 8-hour ritual. Dismissing a familiar is ending a link between your soul and it, so it should probably take about an hour.

The exception to the above is if you take the Improved Familiar feat, which allows you to immediately replace your familiar with the new familiar, at no cost or time required (it is assumed this occurs during whatever preparations you make while leveling up).

Once dismissed, an animal familiar is just a normal animal of its type (a special familiar from the Improved Familiar feat reverts to a normal creature of its type). Whether or not it wants to remain with you is up to your GM and probably based on how you treated the creature while it was your familiar.[/b]

[VoodooMonkey]

Thanks for responding...been looking at threads to see if Alchemists do indeed qualify for Improved Familiar...but I haven't been able to find a definitive answer, and the Witch's patron familiar rules states "Levels of different classes that are entitled to familiars stack for the purpose of determining any familiar abilities that depend on the witch’s level." so is a 7th level Improved Familiar be able to be reached by 6 levels in Alchemist and 1 level in witch since Alchemist is a class that is entitled to a familiar and the 7th level arcane spell caster requirement is the part "that depends on the witch's level" that stacks with said Alchemist levels...so could I skip thw Tumor Familiar discovery and get an Improved Familiar that way...(knowing the Valet Archetype doesn't fit with Improved Familiars- without finding a way to imbue them with Speak with animals possibly)

And is there any feat, trait or otherwise anyone has come across to definitively allow an Alchemist count as an arcane spell caster?

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[VoodooMonkey]

Go tospell knowledge

ok thanks I wasn't getting the fact that I have to type the first set of specifics with what I wanted to label it followed by the second set...kinda like a sandwich if you will...HA!

[VRMH]

VoodooMonkey wrote:

1. Tumor Familiar Discovery-Monkey with Valet familiar archetype

Well... only if you want to be truly pedantic would this not be permissible.

Animal Archive wrote:

Where levels are referenced in archetype descriptions, they refer to the class level of the PC master in whichever class grants the companion or familiar as a class feature.

And it's a Discovery for you, not a Class Feature. But I doubt any GM is going to give you grief over that.

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2 Spell Knowledge Discovery to count as an arcane caster at my level and/or Eldritch Heritage feat

There is, to my knowledge, no definition of "Arcane Caster". The FAQ has made it clear you do need to be able to cast an actual spell though. So: Discovery yes, Bloodline no.

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3. Take a level in witch after 6 levels in Alchemist so I count as a 7th level arcane spell caster...

Nope. You'd be a first level Spell Caster. And a sixth level Alchemist.

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get a second familiar

There are a few ways to get multiple Familiars. But they all go against the RAI afaik. And besides, this isn't one of them. (Usually it involves getting the same class levels to do double-duty, because multiple classes just stack.)

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so I was wondering if it was far out of the realm of possibility of using the Awaken spell in conjunction with the appropriate power-related spells during crafting and infusing it with my own essence and sentience to make a "Tear of Lil Boom Boom" if you will...especially since infusing things like bombs and extracts with our magical essence is what we Alchemists do!

Seems a great concept... but there's no RAW on any level to support it. That said: there's the Promethean Alchemist, who's "mini-me" can make and use Extracts. Or further down the line the Greater Alchemical Simulacrum Discovery allows Alchemists to create a cheap clone army.

[VoodooMonkey]

Thanks for the advice

[graystone]

#1 good
#2 good with discovery. I've seen a post from Mark that this should work. [not that I recall where that was]
#3 as others have said, no multiple familiars and arcane levels don't stack [3rd level wizard + 4th level sorcerer = 4th level arcane caster]. So if you use #2 to 7th, pick up improved familiar then.
#4 ask you DM.