For the first time, I'm taking a serious look at playing a Wizard, and I want to take a Fox as my familiar, with the Sage Archetype. It gets all Knowledge Skills as Class Skills, and gets +2 Skill ranks per the masters (my) level.
Cool Beans.
What I'm having trouble understanding, is the number of Skill Ranks that it already possesses in each skill, which is important to understand since it can only have as many Ranks in a skill as my level is high.
I'm hoping somebody can help me reverse engineer how it got these Skill values, so I can see what's coming from where, and assign those additional 2, accordingly. And so that I don't end up adding a bonus twice (i.e +8 from being 'tiny' sized) and accidentally cheat.
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/animals/canines/fox/
Thanks.
EDIT: I'm aware that it also uses my Skill Ranks.
TL;DR: a fox has its one skill point in perception.
Tiny, 1 HD, 40' move, Dex +2, Wis +1
Feats Skill Focus (Perception)
Skills Acrobatics +2 (+10 when jumping), Perception +8, Stealth +10, Survival +1 (+5 scent tracking); Racial Modifiers +4 Acrobatics when jumping, +4 Survival when tracking by scent
The following are class skills for animals: Acrobatics, Climb, Fly, Perception, Stealth, and Swim.
Acrobatics has +2 from Dex, +4 from 40' move when jumping and +4 racial when jumping.
Perception has +1 from Wis, +3 from the feat, and needs 1 rank and a +3 class skill bonus to make the remaining +4.
Stealth has +2 from Dex and +8 from being size tiny.
Survival has +1 from Wis and +4 racial when tracking by scent.
Thanks guys.