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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1950783" data-attributes="member: 5777">Personally, I have no problem with the familiar haveing some stat better than his master. I am not sure why it would matter nor why people would think it is a problem <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />A paladins mount may wind up being stronger, or more charismatic, than the paladin. Important? not really!Maybe the sorc will look to his familiar for a good idea now and then, sounds like a good use!As for the skills though, I dont think that there is anything ambiguous in the least. In fact, it is quite clear. The familiar gets his masters ranks in skills unless his own are higher.The only ambiguity comes from some skills being beyond the familiars ability to use. This seems to come down to things that they are physically incapable of. As already shown the familiar can be decently intelligent, and uses the modifier of their own stat anyway. So even if they have 5 ranks in knowledge (X) they still likely have a worse chance than their master, and if they have a better chance then it is simply a matter of the familiar being smarter than the poor sorc. Nothing wrong with the familiar helping out <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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