what are homunculi?

[zainale]

are the familiars or companions? i would like to have a valet packmate. an alchemist can craft a homunculus and provides the blood and is its master but it does not clarify if that makes it a familiar or companion.

[Milo v3]

Creatures are only familiars if the game specifically says it's a familiar. Creatures are only animal companions if the game specificially says it's an animal companion.

[Starglim]

zainale wrote:

an alchemist can craft a homunculus and provides the blood and is its master but it does not clarify if that makes it a familiar or companion.

Unless he has a game ability that makes it his familiar (such as choosing it for the Improved Familiar feat), it is just a construct that he made with the abilities detailed in the Bestiary.

Also, it can't take a familiar archetype unless it begins with the abilities that the archetype trades out.

[zainale]

so neither? unless your a Promethean Alchemist then it is a companion or a wizard with improved familiar it is a familiar. i am neither just a normal bomb loving alchemist in the pursuit of creating life. or an alchemical Frankenstein >.>. i have read on here where people suggest the use of archetypes like mauler or valet on a homunculus depending on how your going to use it.

[zainale]

ohh okay thanks that makes sense, starglim.