When you take a class that has a familiar and you decide to multiclass later does the familer level up with you still or only on levels that gave you the familiar?
Example the seasinger archtype gets a parrot at level 2 lets say at level 5 the player wants to go pirate or swashbuckler. Would that parrot be a level 5 parrot?
When you take a class that has a familiar and you decide to multiclass later does the familer level up with you still or only on levels that gave you the familiar?
Example the seasinger archtype gets a parrot at level 2 lets say at level 5 the player wants to go pirate or swashbuckler. Would that parrot be a level 5 parrot?
Not normally, unless the other class also has a familiar (or shaman spirit animal.)
The boon companion feat allows you to offset up to 4 levels of lost pet progression for a specific pet.
A familiar is a class feature so it only gets power from a class with the class feature. Levels from classes that have the class feature do stack for the purpose of determining the familiars abilities. So the levels of swashbuckler would not advance the familiar, but a witch or wizard would. The feat Boon Companion can be used to allow the familiar to gain up to 4 levels of power, but cannot put it past your total level.
Possibly worth adding, familiar only ‘levels’ with your class(es) that has the Familiar class feature,
But some key Familiar aspects, BAB, Saves, HP, are based off your total #s from all classes, even if most of your BAB/saves/hp are coming from non-familiar classes.
And those things could make a 1st level familiar worth taking. I once had a PC dip a single level into bloodrager to get a bloodline familiar that never advanced beyond 1st level. However, since I made it a bloodline familiar, it actually worked out well for me. I didn't need the advanced familiar abilities that I was missing out on.