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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TanisFrey" data-source="post: 5439851" data-attributes="member: 26948">I could see a Familiar's HD being greater than a mage's level in one case from 3.5 Races of the Wild splatbook.  It has a prestige class called Arcane Hieropant, a Wizard/Druid combo class.  You dismiss your normal familiar and treat your animal companion as a familiar.  You take you animal companion and add familiar abilities to it, even giving it 1/2 your hit points unless it already had more, which is likely.  The prestige class stacks with druid for animal companion's abilities and with wizard for familiar's abilities.The quickest you could get this prestige class is about level 8 by Druid 3/Wizard 3/Mystic Thaumaturge 2, I think.  Effectively druid 5 for animal companion's abilities and wizard 5 for familiar's abilities.Over all my point is that if you multiclass any way, your wizard level does not increase for familiar unless it is specifically says so.  The vast majority of 3.5 Prestige classes did not add the wizard/sorcerer's effective level for familiars abilities.  And sometimes multiclassing and/or prestige classes leads to the familiar's HD increasing greater than a wizard/sorcerer's effective level.</blockquote>