Draconic Familiar Enhanced / Incredible Familiar

[KingWut117]

How does the Draconic Familiar feat (6) from the Draconic Acolyte archetype interact with the Enhanced Familiar and Incredible Familiar feats? The wording of the latter two specify a baseline of 2 familiar abilities, but the familiar granted by the Draconic Familiar feat starts with 4. Is Enhanced Familiar a completely useless prerequisite to get Incredible Familiar in this case, or can one take Incredible Familiar using Draconic Familiar as a prerequisite instead? Every specific familiar with the Dragon trait requires more than 4 abilities, so it seems weird that Draconic Acolyte would be unable to have a dragon familiar without an external source of Improved Familiar

[TheFinish]

Reading through all the feats it does seem that the unfortunate conclusion is that you still need to take Enhanced Familiar for no gain if you wish to take Incredible Familiar as a Draconic Acolyte with the Draconic Familiar feat, because:

- Incredible Familiar requires Enhanced Familiar. There are no ifs or butts about this one.
- Enhanced Familiar and Draconic Familiar, as you point out, have the same kind of wording of "You can select four familiar or master abilities each day, instead of two" instead of the wording you find on the Witch which is Your familiar gains two additional familiar abilities (Wizard has similar wording). Which means both feats bring your total familiar abilities to 4 and do not stack with each other.

As a GM I'd personally allow you to take Incredible Familiar if you have Draconic Familiar, but per the actual rules this is not allowed. You'll need to discuss it with your GM.