familiar advancement

[Shadowbite]

I have a lvl 10 Dread Necromancer and a Quasit familiar. I wanted to know if the save DC for his poison scales at all. The base monster has a DC of 13. Would it improve at all?

[Urpriest]

The save DCs for a monster's abilities generally run as 10+HD/2+appropriate ability modifier. The ability is usually listed in the monster's statblock, or in the glossary for more general abilities. Since a familiar is treated as having the same HD as its master, it would advance that part of the DC.

[Shadowbite]

Interesting, so...

10 + (10HD/2) + 0 (con bonus) + 2 racial modifier (in stat block) = 17 DC

[Urpriest]

Interesting, so...

10 + (10HD/2) + 0 (con bonus) + 2 racial modifier (in stat block) = 17 DC

Yup looks correct.