Oracle Revelation granting familiar issue

[TheNewProgrammer]

Hi, I am working on a modified Lore mystery, and wanted one of the revelations to grant an arcane familiar. When directly turning Arcane bond Familiar into a revelation, or copying the Familiar Magus arcana, I am unable to select any race for the familiar and get "Invalid familiar type for cavalier" as an invalid prereq. This goes away if I add the feat Improved familiar. I assume Arcane Bond looks for wizard or magus, and assumes cavalier if not. Any advice?

 

[Tarmor]

How did you turn "Arcane bond Familiar into a revelation" ?
I have added familiars to a class as an Archetype in the past... the main thing I had to do was bootstrap "cArcFClass" onto it. That gave me a list of familiars without a problem.

 

[TheNewProgrammer]

I quite literally made a copy of arcane bond familiar and gave it Oracle and revelation tags.

 

[Tarmor]

Mostly guessing here...
"I am unable to select any race for the familiar and get "Invalid familiar type for cavalier" as an invalid prereq"
Do you get the list of familiars, and then an error when you choose one? (Or no list) Did you copy a pre-req as part of the original that you don't need?

 

[TheNewProgrammer]

I took a look, and my familiar ability has the same bootstraps as yours. This is the error I am receiving (see image below). I found the Nature Revelation bonded mount, and it has the same issue except for the allowed mounts. It has the code "perform linkage

.assign[Helper.MinionINT6]" in the companion eval script. I assume this is what allows the rev to give those animal companions. Perhaps I need a similar linkage.

 

[Tarmor]

All those familiars are grey - so not available... not sure what has worked out differently to mine.

 

[Lord Magus]

Is there a tag on the familiar races making them available for certain abilities, such as "cArcFClass"? That might be why you have access to them when you bootstrap the ability, but not if you bootstrap a copy of it (with a different ID).

 

[TheNewProgrammer]

I think I am using cArcFClass, though?

 

[Lord Magus]

I think I am using cArcFClass, though?

You said earlier "I quite literally made a copy of arcane bond familiar and gave it Oracle and revelation tags.", so I assumed the copy you're referring to does not have "cArcFClass" as an ID.

 

[TheNewProgrammer]

sorry, what i mean is, I am calling cArcFClass like Tarmor is in the second post.

 

[TheNewProgrammer]

Upon further inspection it appears that a wizard 1/oracle 1 has the issue. if the familiar revelation is not taken, then there is no issue, but if it is, then the glitch extends to arcane familiars from all sources.