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Pirate Familiars
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Illustration by Typer Walpole
Avast there, ye scurvy swabs! This week sees the release of Pathfinder Adventure Path #55: The Wormwood Mutiny, which includes, among other things, four new familiars for you swashbuckling spellcasters out there. But pirates stole into our computers during the dead of night and made off with some valuable loot—the bonuses these familiars grant their masters! Fortunately, we tracked down the villainous knaves on the open seas and recovered our lost cargo—and took a few extra bits o’ plunder for ourselves.
So without further ado, here’s the rules for the pirate familiars presented in The Wormwood Mutiny, with a few other pirate familiars thrown in for good measure!
Other Piratical Familiars
Trained animals are extremely popular among pirates, serving as pets, ships’ mascots, and company on lengthy voyages. Pirate spellcasters prove no different than their shipmates in their interest in pets, and find having exotic familiars wins them bragging rights and a degree of status. Creatures like blue-ringed octopuses, goats, hawks, rats, lizards, king crabs, monkeys, rats, scarlet spiders, snapping turtles, vipers, and weasels all serve as existing examples of potential pirate familiars that appear in either the Pathfinder RPG Bestiary or Pathfinder RPG Ultimate Magic. Additionally, the statistics for many existent familiars might be used to represent more exotic, piratical familiars. The following table presents a variety of such exotic familiars, statistics that can be used to represent them, and the benefits of having them as familiars (which, in some cases, vary from the familiar creatures whose statistics they share).
Familiar Statistics Special Ability
Dodo Dodo Master gains a +4 bonus on initiative checks
Dwarf caiman Dwarf caiman Master gains a +3 bonus on Stealth checks
Giant isopod Giant isopod Master gains a +1 natural armor bonus to AC
Marine iguana Dwarf caiman Master gains a +3 bonus on Swim checks
Mongoose Weasel Master gains a +2 bonus on Fortitude saves
Osprey Hawk Master gains a +3 bonus on Survival checks
Parrot Raven Master gains a +3 bonus on Linguistics checks
Toucan Raven (cannot speak) Master gains a +3 bonus on Diplomacy checks
Sea krait Viper Master gains a +2 bonus on Fortitude saves
Seal Seal Master gains a +3 bonus on Swim checks
Snail kite Hawk Master gains a +3 bonus on Fly checks