Undead Familiar Question

[j_spencer93]

A player of mine has asked before if choosing Undead Familiar and Betrayal of the Spirit Linked would allow you to have a skeleton/zombie familiar. Does it?

[Ruethgar]

Betrayal of the Spirit Linked lets you have a skeletal familiar on it's own. Undead Familiar would likely not alter that. However do note that it does say the template not the creature. So you could have a skeletal cat for example, not a human skeleton. Of course Necromancers can switch out their familiar for a Human Skeletal Warrior lvl 1 that upgrades as you level, but that it a separate matter.

[j_spencer93]

may i know what allows that actually?

[Ruethgar]

The Necromancer Unearthed Arcana Skeletal Minion variant allows for a Human Skeleton Warrior to replace the familiar.

[j_spencer93]

sweet, do you raise or create it yourself? IF so would corpsecrafter and those feats apply?

[Ruethgar]

You "obtain" it. No clue where it comes from. Logic would dictate you make it because you can perform the ritual anywhere, even in a blank plane sealed off from all other planes. Takes 100g and 24hr to get one as a normal familiar would. But by RAW, no, corpsecrafter does not work.

Edit: Here (http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=8589.0) is a post briefly delving into augmentations that the skeleton can accrue.