Bat (familiar)

The bat familiar, or "night hunter", is a magical creature capable of special attacks that can terrify the most stalwart of enemies. These winged, nocturnal rodents are quick, stealthy and very good at finding that which is hidden. They also seem to paralyze some with fear.

Statistics

Race: animal
Size: tiny
Alignment: true neutral
Armor class: 14 (including the size modifier)
Hit points: 4 to 150
Attack bonus: +4 to +34/+29/+24
Damage:
at level 1: 1d2 - 4 slashing damage + 2 sonic damage
at level 40: 1d6 + 1 slashing damage + 5 sonic damage

Hit dice (level): 1 to 40
Challenge rating: 1 to 25

Saves
	fortitude	1 to 21
	reflex	4 to 24
	will	2 to 18

Abilities
	strength	3
	dexterity	15
	constitution	8
	intelligence	3
	wisdom	14
	charisma	4 to 5

Trained skills:^(‡) hide, listen, move silently, search, spot (No skills improve after level 30.)
Feats: weapon proficiency (creature), weapon finesse (Weapon finesse is missing at level 4.)

Blueprint:^(‡) nw_fm_bat01 to nw_fm_bat40

Special abilities

All bat familiars are immune to mind-affecting spells. They also have damage reduction and spell resistance dependent on the master's level. Furthermore, a bat familiar can make use of fear gaze and fear howl attacks. In addition, the bat's natural weapon (its bite) eventually gains an enhancement bonus, improving its attacks and allowing it to better pierce the damage reduction of enemies. At master level 35, the base damage of the bat's attack improves from d2 to d4, and at 40 it becomes d6. At level 20, the sonic damage from the bite increases from 2 to 5.

Master level	Bite enhancement bonus	Damage reduction	Spell resistance	Fear gaze	Fear howl
1		5/+1	10	1x/day
5		10/+1	12	2x/day
10		10/+1	14	2x/day	1x/day
15	+2	10/+1	16	2x/day	2x/day
20	+3	10/+2	18	2x/day	2x/day
25	+4	10/+3	18	3x/day	3x/day
30	+5	10/+4	18	4x/day	4x/day