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Improved Familiar
This feat allows you to acquire a powerful familiar, but only when you could normally acquire a new familiar.
Prerequisites: Ability to acquire a new familiar, compatible Alignment, sufficiently high level (see below).
Benefit: When choosing a familiar, the creatures listed below are also available to you. You may choose a familiar with an Alignment up to one step away on each Alignment axis (lawful through Chaotic, good through evil).
| Familiar | Alignment | Arcane Spellcaster Level |
|---|---|---|
| Celestial hawk1 | Neutral good | 3rd |
| Dire Rat | Neutral | 3rd |
| Fiendish viper2 | Neutral evil | 3rd |
| Elemental, Small (any type) | Neutral | 5th |
| Stirge | Neutral | 5th |
| Homunculus3 | Any | 7th |
| Imp | Lawful evil | 7th |
| Mephit (any type) | Neutral | 7th |
| Pseudodragon | Neutral good | 7th |
| Quasit | Chaotic evil | 7th |
| 1 Or other celestial Animal from the standard familiar list. | ||
| 2 Or other fiendish Animal from the standard familiar list. | ||
| 3 The master must first create the Homunculus. | ||
Improved Familiars otherwise use the rules for regular Familiars, with two exceptions: if the creature's type is something other than Animal, its type does not change; and improved Familiars do not gain the ability to speak with other creatures of their kind (although many of them already have the ability to communicate).