Ultimate Wilderness - Puffin Familiar Bonus correct??

[rkr1970]

The puffin familiar in Ultimate Wilderness says it grants a +2 on Stealth checks (p.191), but this seems inconsistent for several reasons.

1) Skill bonuses granted by familiars are almost always a +3, not +2
2) Puffins have no particular facility at stealth (in-game or IRL!)
3) The puffin from the Reign of Winter Player's Guide shows them to grant a +3 to swim, which given the change from Weapon Finesse in RoW-PG to Skill Focus (Swim) now granted by UW seems an even stronger argument for a +3 to swim.

Granted, many familiars from earlier books have been retooled, but this feels more like a typo than a retooling. Can someone clarify this, please?

[Nefreet]

Probably better to ask in the Product Discussion thread, or the Errata thread.

If your Rules Question is "What bonus does a Puffin Familiar grant?", then you have your answer already.

I suspect UW will be getting a substantial rewrite, so if you bring it up now maybe it will get addressed.

[Darrell Impey UK]

To be honest, it only applies when disguising yourself as a porg anyway...