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<blockquote data-quote="Stormrunner" data-source="post: 1214172" data-attributes="member: 13471"><p>My take is no, it can't. A familiar is intimately connected to its master's soul: it never gains additional skills/feats/xp/levels of its own but rather increases in power in step with the power of its master, the master has the same "connection" to a place as the familiar does for purposes of teleport and the like, and if the master is slain and then raised/resurrected/reincarnated soon after,the familiar stays with him - it knows that despite the new body "it's really him".</p><p>A Simulacrum, OTOH, has no soul of its own. It is an animated snow sculpture (rather like a golem), cloaked in illusion and shadow magic to give it the appearance of the target, and with a familiar-like link to the target (hence the need for a piece of the target) to "copy" the target's powers. Note that the spell school is Illusion(Shadow), not Conjuration. The simulacrum is not a living creature, or even an undead creature, and hence cannot have a familiar.</p><p>A generous GM might allow you to sculpt a "duplicate familiar" as part of creating the simulacrum of a familiar-toting wizard, but this would essentially be a seperately-mobile piece of the main simulacrum rather than a true familiar. A less-generous GM would probably require a seperate casting of Simulacrum to duplicate the familiar.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stormrunner, post: 1214172, member: 13471"] My take is no, it can't. A familiar is intimately connected to its master's soul: it never gains additional skills/feats/xp/levels of its own but rather increases in power in step with the power of its master, the master has the same "connection" to a place as the familiar does for purposes of teleport and the like, and if the master is slain and then raised/resurrected/reincarnated soon after,the familiar stays with him - it knows that despite the new body "it's really him". A Simulacrum, OTOH, has no soul of its own. It is an animated snow sculpture (rather like a golem), cloaked in illusion and shadow magic to give it the appearance of the target, and with a familiar-like link to the target (hence the need for a piece of the target) to "copy" the target's powers. Note that the spell school is Illusion(Shadow), not Conjuration. The simulacrum is not a living creature, or even an undead creature, and hence cannot have a familiar. A generous GM might allow you to sculpt a "duplicate familiar" as part of creating the simulacrum of a familiar-toting wizard, but this would essentially be a seperately-mobile piece of the main simulacrum rather than a true familiar. A less-generous GM would probably require a seperate casting of Simulacrum to duplicate the familiar. [/QUOTE]
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