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How do multiple familiars' abilities stack? Say I get a tattooed familiar, then a tumor familiar: Does it get the ability to disconnect from the tattoo form as a move (it's own) or does it now take a move action on the part of the alchemist? Does it get fast healing 5 from the Alchemist side while attached? If I have a carnivalist rogue, does it get Sneak Attack if it is my second or third familiar type added?
Because of the nonstandard wording on these familiars: The carnivalist stacks with the sorcerer, which only stacks with wizard and witch, and what stacks with alchemist tumor familiar? I understand that under the familiar section it says "they all stack together, regardless of the wording" but does that mean all their weird abilities stack, and how so? (see above regarding the detachment issue).
"Levels of different classes that are entitled to familiars stack for the purpose of determining any familiar abilities that depend on the master’s level." - this indicates all the abilities do, in fact, stack.
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Multiple weird familiar types would stack as long as they don’t contradict each other or replace/modify the same familiar ability. You couldn’t have two types of familiars that both lost “Speak with Animals of its Kind” or that change empathic link in different ways.
Note that any special limitations imposed by one archetype would apply to the familiar universally. In the case of the tumor/tattooed combo
In tattoo form it continues to grant its special familiar ability (Core Rulebook 82), but otherwise has no abilities and can take no actions except to transform from tattoo into creature.
If it is in tattoo form it doesn’t get fast healing and can’t do anything except transform itself into a creature. However there is nothing stopping you from having it attach itself as a tumor (instead of a tattoo).