Calculating Skill Points for Familiar

[Banshee16]

How are a familiar's skill points calculated? Do you start with the points due the base animal, then raise his INT score to the level appropriate for the level of the wizard he's bound to, then recalculate total numbers? I've also seen references to using the higher score in a particular skill (ie. wizard vs. familiar).

Banshee

 

[Celebrim]

Familiar's skill points are calculated as a normal animal of their type.

Familiars and master's share their skills, so a familiar gains whatever skill ranks its master gains.

It otherwise doesn't gain skill points.

 

[Banshee16]

Thanks for clearing that up.

Banshee

 

[jefgorbach]

Familiar gets whatever "background" animal skills available to its species reflecting its life prior to becoming a familiar.

Upon becoming a familiar, it also gains access to whatever skills its Master knows (and at his ranks).

However its Intelligence also raises upon becoming a familiar ... making it eligible for whatever Class it qualifies for, gaining the corresponding class skills; which presumably its Master can likewise access (at the familiar's rank).