So there seems to be a couple of threads about having multiple familiars, multiple familiar feats, and stacking levels, but I haven't seemed to have found any simple and conclusive ruling on such things. I just want to kind of get the RAI approach as opposed to breaking down the semantics of everything.
I'm looking into building a character with a primary focus on a Mauler Familiar. What I want to know is, how do multiple familiar abilities, features, and feats work together. Or if it was intended for them not to be allowed to be combined.
If I'm taking an abyssal bloodline familiar for my Crossblooded Bloodrager, then I take the aberrant tumor feat, and then I take the Wasp familiar feat, and then dip 2 levels of Eldritch Gaurdian for a familiar and combat feat sharing, or a shaman level with the stone spirit.... Does that mean that these abilities all combine into one familiar? Does it grant 5 weak familiars with their own specific abilities? Were these applications intended to be exclusive from one another?
again... I'm not trying to break the game by abusing the semantics of RAW, I'm just looking for the reasonable opinion of experienced players/GMs or a developer ruling.
(for those interested) The character concept is a super duper nice guy (halfling) who is naive, wholesome, and friendly but happens to be infected with a parasitic (alien/tumor) familiar. This creature is the real brains of the operation who sends its puppet host into an aberrant bloodrage when it detaches and enlarges.
Most of the time, familiar levels from different sources simply stack into one singular familiar. That’s the intended behavior. But some rules go off the rails a bit. Tumor familiar and wasp familiar are such complications, and there are currently no official rules on how to deal with those interactions.
So, you’ll just have to ask your DM.
As I see it, each character level can only to a single familiar. If you advance your tumor familiar, then you don't advance your bloodline familiar. For familiars that go as Character Level - X, they probably would not count levels devoted to other familiars.
Basically, they system does not expect you to have multiple full value pets, unless they are different type like familiar vs. animal companion.
/cevah