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<blockquote data-quote="agrelic" data-source="post: 5610383" data-attributes="member: 98110">I have a couple questions on familiars and I'm hoping some folks here can share what they've seen.&nbsp; Since these are rules questions, I realize its mostly up to my DM's interpretation, but I'm curious what everyone else thinks as well.With Obtain Familiar, the feat says that all classes that grant arcane caster levels stack for familiar abilities.&nbsp; Does this include Prestige Classes that extend a base class's casting (ie Eldritch Knight), or just levels of classes that grant casting by themselves?I may be missing something, but the Improved Familiar feat seems to be missing the table of which special ability each familiar grants its master.&nbsp; The Improved Familiar feat states it uses normal familiar rules, except for speaking to others of its kind, and the possibility of its type not changing.&nbsp; This leaves the question, what skill/save bonuses does each of the improved familiar types offer?&nbsp; Or am I just misreading the feat and those bonuses aren't offered with Improved Familiars.In case anyone's curious where these questions are coming from, I'm considering making a transmuter with the class variant from PHB2 which removes my familiar, then later taking Obtain Familiar+Improved Familiar(CWar) in order to get a blink dog who can deliver touch spells for me <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="agrelic, post: 5610383, member: 98110"] I have a couple questions on familiars and I'm hoping some folks here can share what they've seen. Since these are rules questions, I realize its mostly up to my DM's interpretation, but I'm curious what everyone else thinks as well. With Obtain Familiar, the feat says that all classes that grant arcane caster levels stack for familiar abilities. Does this include Prestige Classes that extend a base class's casting (ie Eldritch Knight), or just levels of classes that grant casting by themselves? I may be missing something, but the Improved Familiar feat seems to be missing the table of which special ability each familiar grants its master. The Improved Familiar feat states it uses normal familiar rules, except for speaking to others of its kind, and the possibility of its type not changing. This leaves the question, what skill/save bonuses does each of the improved familiar types offer? Or am I just misreading the feat and those bonuses aren't offered with Improved Familiars. In case anyone's curious where these questions are coming from, I'm considering making a transmuter with the class variant from PHB2 which removes my familiar, then later taking Obtain Familiar+Improved Familiar(CWar) in order to get a blink dog who can deliver touch spells for me :) [/QUOTE]

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