Do rogue talents that apply to sneak attack, like Distracing Attack(https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/rogue/rogue-talents/pa izo-rogue-talents/distracting-attack-ex ) orUnchained Rogue’s debilitating injury(https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/unchained-classes/ROGUE-unchained/# TOC-Debilitating-Injury-Ex- ) apply to the canrnivalist(https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/rogue/archetypes /paizo-rogue-archetypes/carnivalist/ ) familiar’s sneak attack?
The part that has be a bit confused that familiar “deal sneak attack damage as appropriate.” Appropriate seems a bit ambiguous for comfort.
Most of the rogue talents and debilitating injury have the opening text “ A rogue with this talent” and debilitating injury has “ whenever a rogue deals sneak attack ”. But does the as appropriate mean these apply to the familiar?
I think the answer is no RAW for the following reasons but I am not sure for RAI as it would have significant increase in possibilities for the archetype.
If you're asking about RAI I suspect carnivalist was long enough ago that the couple of writers who still drop by the first edition boards sometimes won't include the person who wrote it.
RAW no, I don't think the familiar gets any of the masters abilities other than sneak attack itself.
Thanks avr, I might need to cross post this to general discussion to see if allowing the abilities to apply would break anything.