Druid taking variant multiclass wizard option; does it affect druid spells prepared?

[Alzrius]

So one of my players is making a druid, and wants to get a familiar instead of an animal companion. I suggested variant multiclassing as either a witch or wizard (since they didn't want to play a blight druid). They're partial to wizard, but had a question that I'm not sure about. Specifically, they noted the first power of VMC wizard:

Quote:

School: At 1st level, he chooses a school of magic in which to specialize. For all powers of that school, he treats his character level as his effective wizard level.

The issue is with that first sentence. Specifically, they wanted to know if 1) specializing in a particular school (outside of Universal) meant that they'd also need to pick two opposition schools, and 2) if their druid spells which were of those schools would require two slots to prepare.

I'm fairly certain that the answer to both questions is no, but I'm not 100% confident, so I wanted to bring this up here. What do you guys think?

[Diego Rossi]

CRB, p. 79 wrote:

Arcane Schools

The following descriptions detail each arcane school and its corresponding powers.

The powers are only what follow that header.

So, to make one example, for the Abjuration school:
Resistance (Ex)
Protective Ward (Su)
Energy Absorption (Su)

Nothing more, nothing less.

[Derklord]

Alzrius wrote:

The issue is with that first sentence. Specifically, they wanted to know if 1) specializing in a particular school (outside of Universal) meant that they'd also need to pick two opposition schools, and 2) if their druid spells which were of those schools would require two slots to prepare.

Both the bonus spell slots, and the opposition schools, come from the Wizard class feature "Arcane School". VMC does not grant this class feature. Indeed, the 1st level VMC feature does absolutely nothing on its own.

Other options to get a familiar: Blight Druid, Leshy Warden, or Swarm Monger archetype; Crocodile, Eagle, Frog, Monkey, or Serpent Domain; the feats Familiar Bond, Wasp Familiar, or Eldritch Heritage -> Arcane bloodline.

[Trokarr]

There’s another option the Hand’s Detatchment feat. https://aonprd.com/FeatDisplay.aspx?ItemName=Hand%27s%20Detachment But that’s a pretty long feat chain just for a familiar.