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I've been looking around for a while for a way for my Wizard to be able to communicate with her owl familiar, as it has the sage archetype and I don't want to wait until 5th level until I can speak to them, and I think I may have found an easy way to do it, and I'd like to run it past other people, just to see if it would work.
The method would involve using a wand of Speak Local Language on your familiar. Simple as that.
Now my question here is, does your familiar count as a creature, as the spell description it says that it functions "as tongues" (except it only grants the ability to speak and understand 1 langauge), which has a target of 1 creature?
If this works, then there's basically nothing stopping me from carrying around a wand of Speak Local Language and tapping my famiiar whenever I think a knowledge check is in the near future, as it has a duration of 10/minutes a level. And for 2PP, it would be pretty easy to aquire
Another possibility would be to take the Spark of the Uncanny feat and then retrain it away at 5th level when you no longer need it (or keep it if you want your familiar to be able to talk with other people, or let it evolve into Improved Familiar if you prefer).
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Another possibility would be to take the Spark of the Uncanny feat and then retrain it away at 5th level when you no longer need it (or keep it if you want your familiar to be able to talk with other people, or let it evolve into Improved Familiar if you prefer).
That was my other plan if this didn't work out.
I'm taking the Elemental Familiar archetype from Plane Hoppers Handbook as well though, which does replace the familiars speak with animals ability. I'm not 100% certain as to how it would interact with improved familiar, as either the familiar loses the archetype or I can't take improved familiar. But that'll be a question for a future character.For now I will stick with my firebreathing dwarf wizard and her ocassionally talking, fire spitting owl