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 here 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).

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).

1 Or other celestial, entropic, fiendish, or resolute animal from the standard familiar list. 2 The master must first create the homunculus.

Editor’s Note

As per this FAQ, the arcane spellcaster requirement is your effective wizard level for familiars granted by any class features or feats that progress familiars. For this purpose, levels of two different classes that grant familiars would stack, such as a Shaman’s Spirit Animal and a Wizard’s Familiar.

Also as per the FAQ, tumor familiars cannot become improved familiars.

Sorted Alphabetically
Familiar Alignment Arcane Spellcaster Level
Aeon, paracletus Neutral 7th
Agathion, silvanshee Neutral good 7th
Almiraj Any 5th
Angel, cassisian Lawful good 7th
Archon, harbinger Lawful good 7th
Asura, tripurasura Lawful evil 7th
Azata, lyrakien Chaotic good 7th
Beheaded Neutral evil 3rd
Brain mole Neutral 5th
Brownie Neutral 5th
Bunnicorn Neutral Good 9th
Calligraphy wyrm Any 7th
Carbuncle Neutral 5th
Cat sith Chaotic neutral 7th
Caypup Chaotic good 7th
Ceru Any 7th
Chuspiki Chaotic 7th
Clockwork familiar Any 7th
Coral capuchin Within one step of Neutral 3rd
Cyphergull Within one step of Neutral 7th
Daemon, cacodaemon Neutral evil 7th
Quasit Chaotic evil 7th
Devil, imp Lawful evil 7th
Devil, imp consular Lawful evil 8th
Dire rat Neutral 3rd
Div, doru Neutral evil 7th
Dragon, faerie Within one step of Chaotic good 7th
Dragon, tidepool Within one step of Chaotic neutral 7th
Drake, shadow Evil 7th
Dweomercat Cub Chaotic Neutral 7th
Elemental, Small (any type) Neutral 5th
Enfield Neutral 5th
Familiar, automaton Lawful neutral 7th
Familiar, celestial1 Neutral good 3rd
Familiar, clockwork Any 7th
Familiar, entropic1 Chaotic neutral 3rd
Familiar, fey-touched Any 3rd
Familiar, fiendish1 Neutral evil 3rd
Familiar, resolute Lawful neutral 3rd
Galluvix 7th
Gremlin, nuglub Chaotic evil 7th
Hellfire ignis Any 7th
Hollow Hound Neutral 5th
Homunculus2 Any 7th
Impundulu Neutral evil 7th
Inevitable, arbiter Lawful neutral 7th
Isitoq Evil 5th
Kami, shikigami Lawful neutral 7th
Kyton, augur Lawful evil 7th
Mephit (any type) Neutral 7th
Mockingfey Chaotic neutral 5th
Nycar Chaotic neutral 7th
Oni, spirit Lawful evil 7th
Pipefox Neutral 7th
Pooka Neutral 7th
Protean, voidworm Chaotic neutral 7th
Pseudodragon Neutral good 7th
Pseudosphinx Neutral 7th
Psychopomp, nosoi Neutral 7th
Pyrausta Chaotic neutral 3rd
Qlippoth, cythnigot Chaotic evil 7th
Rakshasa, raktavarna Lawful evil 7th
Ratling Chaotic evil 7th
Sahkil, esipil Neutral evil 7th
Sin seeker Any 5th
Skvader Neutral 3rd
Smokeshade Within one step of neutral evil 7th
Sprite Chaotic neutral 5th
Sprite, liminal Chaotic 7th
Stirge Neutral 5th
Wolpertinger Neutral 5th
Wysp Any 7th
Xiao Any 7th
Zoog Chaotic neutral 5th
Sorted by Arcane Spellcaster Level
Familiar Alignment Arcane Spellcaster Level
Beheaded Neutral evil 3rd
Coral capuchin Within one step of Neutral 3rd
Dire rat Neutral 3rd
Familiar, celestial1 Neutral good 3rd
Familiar, entropic1 Chaotic neutral 3rd
Familiar, fey-touched Any 3rd
Familiar, fiendish1 Neutral evil 3rd
Familiar, resolute Lawful neutral 3rd
Pyrausta Chaotic neutral 3rd
Skvader Neutral 3rd
Almiraj Any 5th
Brain mole Neutral 5th
Brownie Neutral 5th
Carbuncle Neutral 5th
Elemental, Small (any type) Neutral 5th
Isitoq Evil 5th
Mockingfey Chaotic neutral 5th
Sin seeker Any 5th
Sprite Chaotic neutral 5th
Stirge Neutral 5th
Wolpertinger Neutral 5th
Zoog Chaotic neutral 5th
Aeon, paracletus Neutral 7th
Agathion, silvanshee Neutral good 7th
Angel, cassisian Lawful good 7th
Archon, harbinger Lawful good 7th
Asura, tripurasura Lawful evil 7th
Azata, lyrakien Chaotic good 7th
Calligraphy wyrm Any 7th
Cat sith Chaotic neutral 7th
Caypup Chaotic good 7th
Ceru Any 7th
Chuspiki Chaotic 7th
Clockwork familiar Any 7th
Cyphergull Neutral 7th
Daemon, cacodaemon Neutral evil 7th
Demon, Quasit Chaotic evil 7th
Devil, imp Lawful evil 7th
Div, doru Neutral evil 7th
Dragon, faerie Within one step of Chaotic good 7th
Dragon, tidepool Within one step of Chaotic neutral 7th
Drake, shadow Evil 7th
Dweomercat Cub Chaotic neutral 7th
Familiar, automaton Lawful neutral 7th
Familiar, clockwork Any 7th
Galluvix Any 7th
Gremlin, nuglub Chaotic evil 7th
Hellfire ignis Any 7th
Homunculus2 Any 7th
Impundulu Neutral evil 7th
Inevitable, arbiter Lawful neutral 7th
Kami, shikigami Lawful neutral 7th
Kyton, augur Lawful evil 7th
Mephit (any type) Neutral 7th
Nycar Chaotic neutral 7th
Oni, spirit Lawful evil 7th
Pipefox Neutral 7th
Pooka Neutral 7th
Protean, voidworm Chaotic neutral 7th
Pseudodragon Neutral good 7th
Pseudosphinx Neutral 7th
Psychopomp, nosoi Neutral 7th
Qlippoth, cythnigot Chaotic evil 7th
Rakshasa, raktavarna Lawful evil 7th
Ratling Chaotic evil 7th
Sahkil, esipil Neutral evil 7th
Smokeshade Within one step of neutral evil 7th
Sprite, liminal Chaotic 7th
Wysp Any 7th
Xiao Any 7th
Devil, imp consular Lawful evil 8th
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