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Symbiote
Symbiote
After some mixture of terrible and incredible luck, you have fused with some form of a
parasite, be it magical or biological in nature. Sprouting strange limbs, spreading
disease, and other strange new powers have suddenly become at your disposal.
At first level, you gain an ability boost to Constitution. You increase your hitpoint maximum by this amount at
level 1 and every level thereafter.
Your abilities granted to you by your parasite allows you to adapt to a Trained in Will
myraid of situations.
Skills
In Downtime… Trained in Survival
You might spend a lot of time experimenting with your own body and Trained in one skill depending on
spreading your contagion. your parasite
Trained in a number of additional
You Might… skills of your choice equal to your
Be a mad scientist whose experiments went wrong Intelligence modifier plus 3
Came from a land influenced by some outer plane with a bonded
being Attacks
Have been implanted with the parasite by an enemy Trained in simple weapons
Spells
Trained in symbiote class DC
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Symbiote
TABLE 1-1: SYMBIOTE ADVANCEMENT The saving throw for your contagion by default is
Your Fortitude. Unless otherwise changed by a new
Level Class Features
symptom or feat, interval times for your contagion
Ancestry and Background, contagion, initial stages are 1 round, and your contagion has a
1 proficiencies, parasite origin, proliferation spells,
symbiote feat maximum duration of 1 minute. However, a key
difference for your contagion compared to other
2 Symbiote feat, skill feat
diseases is that your additional exposures do cause
3 Skill increase, general feat
additional saving throws, but these additional saving
4 Symbiote feat, skill feat
throws while afflicted can never improve the target
5 Alertness, ability boosts, ancestral feat, weapon
expertise, skill increase creature's current affliction stage. Failing the initial
6 Symbiote feat, skill feat saving throw against a new exposure increases the
Defensive evolution, additional stage, general feat, stage by 1 (or by 2 if you critically fail) without
7 weapon specialization, skill increase affecting the maximum duration, like a poison.
8 Symbiote Feat, skill feat
Ancestral feat, mutable weakness, symbiote EXPOSE
9 expertise, skill increase
SYMBIOTE
10 Ability boosts, symbiote feat, skill feat
11 general feat, additional stage, skill increase You determine a correct method of assault to ensure a
12 Symbiote feat, skill feat definite exposure to your contagion. Make a Strike
13 Ancestral feat, medium armor expertise, perfected with a unarmed attack or weapon that can deliver
defensive evolution, weapon mastery, skill increase
your parasite's persistent damage. On a success, you
14 Symbiote feat, skill feat
expose the target creature to your contagion and
15 Ability boosts, adapted defense, general feat, greater
weapon specialization, skill increase inflict a -1 circumstance penalty to that saving throw
16 Symbiote feat, skill feat against your contagion, and on a critical success, the
17 Ancestral feat, powerful proliferation, skill increase creature additionally treats that saving throw against
18 Symbiote feat, skill feat your contagion as 1 degree worse.
19 Critical exposure, medium armor mastery, general
feat, skill increase Symptoms
20 Ability boosts, symbiote feat, skill feat At level 1, you may select symptoms that fill in for the
stages of your disease. Some symptoms may be
Class Features dependent on the origin of your parasite, feats, or
both. Once the symptoms for the stages are selected,
Ancestry and Background
they cannot be changed, with the following exception:
In addition to what you get from your class at 1st
Divine Partner
Touched by grace through intimate means, your body
has bonded completely with a divine essence. The
bonding process was difficult, however, and so much
of the potential of this new partner has yet to be seen.
Whenever you touch a willing creature, you grant
them fast healing equal to half your level (minimum 1)
for 1 minute. A creature can only benefit from this
blessing once every 10 minutes. This healing is has the
positive trait, and thus cannot be used on undead
creatures. Whenever you successfully Strike an undead
creature with an unarmed attack, you deal persistent
positive damage equal to half your level. You also
grow a small wing out of your shoulder, granting you
some maneurverability in the air, but not flight. You
treat falls as if they were 10 feet shorter, and you
always land on your feet when falling. You also
increase your minimum Leap distance by 5 feet. Your
spell tradition is Divine and are trained in Religion,
and you also gain the Vitality Burst Proliferation Spell.
You become expert in Reflex and Will saving throws,
and treat Reflex and Will as your primary and
secondary saving throws, respectively, for the
purposes of class features. Your contagion's first stage
symptom is enfeebled 1, and undead are no longer
immune to your contagion.
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Stage Symptoms
TABLE 2-1
Level Symptom Prerequisite Stage
1 fatigued - any
1 drained 1 Helminth Parasite any
1 clumsy 1 - any
1 frightened 1 Mental Illness any
1 1d6 damage* - any
1 clumsy 2 - 2 or above
1 drained 2 Helminth Parasite 2 or above
1 frightened 2 Mental Illness 2 or above
1 sickened 2 Helminth Parasite 2 or above
1 enfeebled 2 Divine Partner 2 or above
1 2d6 damage - 2 or above
1 clumsy 3 - 3 or above
1 drained 3 Helminth Parasite 3 or above
1 frightened 3 Mental Illness 3 or above
1 sickened 3 Helminth Parasite 3 or above
1 enfeebled 3 Divine Partner 3 or above
1 3d6 damage - 3 or above
2 flat-footed - any
2 fascinated by contagion source - 2 or above
2 deafened for 1 round - 2 or above
3 stupified 1 Mental Illness any
3 stupified 2 Mental Illness 2 or above
3 stupified 3 Mental Illness 3 or above
4 fatigued, 1d8 damage plus 1d8 every four levels** - any
4 1d10 damage plus 1d10 per 5 levels, -10 foot status penalty to Speeds - any
4 flat-footed - any
4 flat-footed and clumsy 1 - 2 or above
4 1d10 damage plus 1d10 per 5 levels, -15 foot status penalty to Speeds - 2 or above
4 1d10 damage plus 1d10 per 5 levels, -20 foot status penalty to Speeds - 3 or above
4 flat-footed and clumsy 2 - 3 or above
5 3d6 plus 1d6 damage per four levels - any
5 5d6 damage plus 1d6 damage per four levels - 2 or above
5 7d6 damage plus 1d6 damage per four levels - 3 or above
5 blinded for 1 round - 3 or above
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, clumsy 1 - any
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, stupified 1 Mental Illness any
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, sickened 1 Helminth Parasite any
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, enfeebled 1 Divine Partner any
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, dazzled Outsider Influence any
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, drained 1 Helminth Parasite any
6 1d8 damage plus 1d8 damage every four levels, frightened 1 Mental Illness any
6 dazzled, frightened 1 Outsider Influence, Mental Illness 2 or above
6 slowed 1 - 2 or above
7 slowed 2 - 3 or above
7 2d10 damage plus 1d10 per 5 levels, immobilized - 4 or above
7 slowed 3 - 4 or above
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**Some symptoms scale with level, and do not need to be selected again to increase their damage as their level is
always equal to your character level
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Feats
Level 1 KERATIN BLADE FEAT 2
INSISTENT AFFLICTION FEAT 1 SYMBIOTE
SYMBIOTE
One of your arms grows a thin, bony blade along
forearm. You can retract and extend the blade out of
Whenever you successfully Strike a creature that is
your skin as an Interact action, and you gain an
already afflicted with your parasite's persistent
unarmed attack. Attacks made with the limb that has
damage, the flat check for that persistent damage
the blade inflict 1d4 slashing damage and still inflict
increases by 2 until the start of your next turn to a
your parasite's persistent damage on a successful
maximum of DC 19 or DC 14 with particularly effective
strike, have the agile and finesse traits, and are in the
assistance.
knife group.
BONDED WEAPON FEAT 1
DELAYED DISEASE FEAT 2
SYMBIOTE
SYMBIOTE
You choose a one-handed martial or simple melee Prerequisite contagion
weapon or a simple ranged weapon to bond to your
You make a trade of potency for time. Your contagion
body. You cannot drop the weapon as it fuses with
now has an onset time and interval lengths of 1
your flesh, and you gain the same proficiency as your
minute, but you treat the stage requirement for any
class proficiency in unarmed strikes in the weapon.
symptom as 1 lower, e.g. stage 3 or higher symptoms
The weapon is covered in your flesh, and Striking
can now be assigned to stage 2 or higher, etc (the
creatures with it exposes creatures to your parasite's
symptoms still use their original stage to determine
persistent damage and contagion just as your
condition values). Any conditions with a duration
unarmed Strikes and can be used to perform the
listed greater than 1 round retain their listed duration.
Expose action. You may change which weapon is
Your contagion's maximum duration increases to 1
bonded with you through a strenuous 1 day activity.
hour. In addition, you can expose a creature to which
PROLIFERATION EXPANSION FEAT 1 you are hidden or undetected to your contagion by
SYMBIOTE METAMAGIC
performing a Thievery check against their Perception
DC. On a success, you expose them to your contagion,
Prerequisite proliferation spells
after which you become observed unless prevented
Whenever you cast a Proliferation spell, you can
otherwise, but not that you exposed them to your
spend an additional action that has the somatic trait to
contagion at that moment. This action has the
allow the Proliferation spell to benefit an increase to
manipulate trait.
its range as per the Reach Spell feat.
SUPPRESSED MUTATION FEAT 2
MENTAL INFECTION FEAT 1
SYMBIOTE
SYMBIOTE
Prerequisite parasite origin
Prerequisite contagion
At times your parasite's physical manifestation makes
Your contagion begins to affect the mind instead of
your life inconvenient, and thus you have learned to
just the body. You gain access to symptoms that have
suppress the outward facing physical features. You
this feat as a requirement, and if you use any of those
can perform a 1 minute activity with the manipulate
symptoms, your contagion gains the mental trait.
and concentrate traits to hide any distinct physical
FAMILIAR FEAT 1 features of your parasite. You can release this
MAGUS SORCERER SYMBIOTE WIZARD
suppression as a 2 action activity with the manipulate
and concentrate traits.
Your flesh multiplies and grows to spawn a small
creature made of your flesh. The familiar has the POISON RESISTANCE FEAT 2
appearance of a small creature, but usually is warped ALCHEMIST DRUID SYMBIOTE
by the influence of your parasite. You gain a familiar.
Your body has become fortified against toxins. You
The familiar uses your Constitution modifier to
gain poison resistance equal to half your level, and you
determine its Perception, Acrobatics, and Stealth
gain a +1 status bonus to saving throws against
modifiers.
poisons.
Level 2
PARASITIC SPAWN Made
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SYMBIOTE Symbiote
Prerequisite a familiar
Your
Levelparasite
4 inhabits a the small creature that FLESH POP FEAT 6
accompanies you. You can select four familiar or
SKIN
masterGRAFTING
abilities each day, instead of two. FEAT 4 SYMBIOTE
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Prerequisite Bonded Weapon, bonded with a ranged
weapon
Your parasite makes your epidermic physiology easy
Your flesh attached to shots from your ranged bonded
to shift around and cover festering wounds. By
weapon can now be flared to explode on impact. Make
performing an Interact action, you can assist yourself
a ranged Strike. The Strike gains the splash trait, with
with any persistent damage you have ongoing on
the splash damage being 2 of the same damage type
yourself, reducing the flat DC to end the persistent
as your parasite's persistent damage. Any creatures
damage to 10.
that take the splash damage are afflicted with your
REFLEXIVE INFECTION FEAT 4 parasite's persistent damage.
SYMBIOTE
DEEPENED EVOLUTION FEAT 6
You find ways to spread your parasite, even when you SYMBIOTE
are on the defensive. Whenever a creature Prerequisite parasite origin
successfully hits you with a melee Strike, you can use
The bond with your parasite grows closer, and further
your reaction to take an additional damage equal to
physical manifestations begin to take shape depending
half your level (this damage cannot be resisted or
on your parasite.
negated by any means) to spray your blood on the
Helminth Parasite You grow tumourous lumps of
creature in order to afflict the creature with your
muscle down your back and through your legs.
parasite's persistent damage.
You can flare these tumurous growths as an
LIFESAP FEAT 4 action with the concentrate trait, and if you do
SYMBIOTE
so, you take 1 persistent bleed damage that
cannot by stopped by any means until you end
Prerequisite proliferation spells
the flaring, and your Speed increases by 10 feet.
You use the dregs of your parasite inside other
You can stop the flaring as an action or when you
creatures to heal yourself. You gain the lifesap
fall unconscious.
proliferation spell, and the number of Focus Points in
Outsider Influence You grow a sharp beak and
your focus pool increases by 1.
your vocal chords grow thick and strong. You
VARIABLE HARM FEAT 4 gain a beak attack that deals 1d4 piercing
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damage, is in the brawling group, and has the
agile and finesse traits. You also gain the ability
The basic effects of your parasite become easy to
to perform the Shriek action, which allows you to
change. During your daily preparations, you can
Demoralize a creature without a penalty if you do
change the damage type of your parasite's persistent
not speak the same language.
damage to slashing or piercing, and remains that
Divine Partner Your eyes glow a bright color,
damage type until you change it through the same
enveloping the entirety of your eye. You gain
method. In addition, if your parasite origin is Divine
darkvision if you did not already have it, and the
Partner, you can add the negative damage type to the
range increments of your ranged attacks increase
types to which you can change your persistent
by 10 feet.
damage type.
OPPRESSIVE HOST FEAT 6
VECTOR EXPANSION FEAT 4
SYMBIOTE
SYMBIOTE
Prerequisite Suppressed Mutation
Prerequisites Delayed Disease
Either through necessity or disgust, you have
Your methods of afflicting creatures with your
commanded greater control over your parasite and
contagion become more clever. You can perform the
have benefited from it by gaining more physical
Distracting Expose action.
durability. You can now suppress your parasite's
DISTRACTING EXPOSE distinct physical features as a 3-action activity and
SYMBIOTE
release it as a single action. Whenever you suppress
your parasite, you gain 10 temporary hit points that
Using subtle movements as a distraction, you manage
last until you release the suppression.
to quickly expose your target to your contagion
through subtle means. Make a Deception Made check CHRONIC
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against the Perception DC of a creatureSymbiote within your SYMBIOTE
reach.
Prerequisite Delayed Disease
Critical Success You manage to intermingle with
HOSTILE TAKEOVER
the target FEAT 8 Your
very closely. You expose the creature SYNCED contagion
FOCUS dies off much more slowly. FEATYour
10
contagion has interval and onset times of 1 hour, and
to your contagion
UNCOMMON SYMBIOTE twice, and they are unaware of SYMBIOTE
you exposing them to it. its maximum duration is 1 day.
Corpses and their memories have become just another Prerequisite proliferation spells
Success You successfully expose the target to Level 8
place for your parasite to reside. You can perform a 1 Your parasite links with your brain, allowing you to
your contagion, and the target does not know
minute activity with the manipulate and concentrate achieve higher levels of concentration. If you
AQUATIC COMPATIBILITY have
FEAT 8
you exposed them.
traits that targets a corpse of a creature that died spent at least 2 Focus Points since the last time you
Failure You fail to expose the target to your SYMBIOTE
within the past week that allows you to see the last 1 Refocused, you recover 2 Focus Points when you
contagion, and the target is aware you attempted
minute of the creature's life. After performing this Your parasite
Refocus hasofgifted
instead 1. you an interesting boon: your
a hostile action.
activity, you become drained 2, with its value skin has become water-permeable, and you have
Critical Failure You make your purpose well SHARING IS CARING FEAT 10
increasing by 1 with additional perfomance of the grown a new physical manifestation that propels you
known as well as failing at the intended purpose. through SYMBIOTEwater, such as tiny hairs or webbed feet. You
activity.
As failure, except the target knows you tried to are able to breath underwater, and gain a swim speed
You are able to bestow a weaker strain of your
MEMETIC VECTOR
harm them FEAT 8 of 20 feet.
with an affliction, and is immediately
parasite to an ally. During your daily preparations, you
hostile to you.
SYMBIOTE
select an ally to gain some benefits from your parasite,
Prerequisite
Level 6 Mental Infection and this effect lasts until your next daily preparations.
If your contagion has the mental trait, the saving The ally inflicts 2 persistent damage of your parasite's
CROSSBRED MUTATION
throw against your contagion becomes Will. FEAT 6 damage type on a successful unarmed melee Strike,
SYMBIOTE and can be a target of your proliferation spells, but
BLOOD SPRAY FEAT 8
Prerequisite parasite origin does not suffer any of their negative effects. While an
SYMBIOTE
Your experience and myriad of infection vectors have ally is under the effect of this ability, you are drained 1.
Prerequisite Reflexive Infection
cause a spontaneous growth and change in your
ELEMENTAL HARM FEAT 10
Trigger A creature critically
parasite. You choose another parasite succeeds at you
origin; a Strike
may
takeagainst
featsyou.or symptoms for your contagion that SYMBIOTE
Even
requirewhen your lifeorigin
that parasite is onasthe brink, your You
a prerequisite. goalcanof Prerequisite Variable Harm
proliferation
also choose to persists. After a damage
set your persistent creaturetypecritically
to that You add the following damage types to the list of
succeeds
of the other a strike against
parasite originyou, you original
or your can release
duringa damage types that you can change your persistent
torrent of blood
your daily causing all creatures within a 30-foot damage type to: cold, acid, fire, and lightning. You also
preparations.
cone to become afflicted with your parasite's gain the ability to switch your persistent damage type
persistent damage. through a activity with the concentrate and
manipulate traits that takes 1 hour.
SKITTERING FOG FEAT 8
SYMBIOTE Level 12
Prerequisite proliferation spells NEXT STEP TOWARDS PERFECTION FEAT 12
You learn to control tiny creatures around you to SYMBIOTE
deliver your parasite's malevolence. You gain the
Prerequisite Deepened Evolution
skittering fog proliferation spell, and the number of
Your parasite's physical features start to show their
Focus Points in your focus pool increases by 1.
final forms. The physical feature depends on your
Level 10 parasite origin.
Helminth Parasite You gain the Shield Block
UNCLEANSABLE SYMPTOMS FEAT 10
general feat, and you can use your enlarged limb
SYMBIOTE
to Shield block. Your limb has a Hardness of 5.
Prerequisite contagion Only you take the excess damage.
Your contagion ensures that symptoms linger. Any Divine Partner Your wing grows in size, allowing
condition with a value that your contagion inflicts on a for limited flight. You gain a Fly speed of 20 feet,
creature increments down by 1 at the end of the but can only remain airborne for a total of 1
creature's turns (like frightened) unless specified minute per day before the wing wears out.
otherwise (such as longer interval times), even after Outsider Influence You afflict creatures with your
the creature has moved out of the stage that gave the parasite's persistent damage when you
condition. successfully Grapple or Trip a creature.
SYMBIOTE
Prerequisite contagion
Symbiote
Prerequisite Next Step Towards Perfection Your bond with your parasite has become tight
Your body becomes the perfect manifestation of your enough where you have become indistinguishable. If
parasite. Your body gains the following physical your body dies, your parasite spends 1d4 months
features dependent on your parasite. finding a new host with a new body, with its ancestry
Helminth Parasite The Hardness of your limb determined by the GM, where your consciousness
increases to 8, and you can perform an action takes over and you become alive again in your new
with manipulate trait to smash the ground body, retaining all of your class features and levels.
around you, causing anyone within 10 feet of you You replace your ancestry Hit Points, size, Speeds,
to roll a Reflex saving throw against your class ability boosts, ability flaws, traits, and special abilities
DC. On failure, they fall prone. You can perform with those of the new ancestry. You lose your heritage
this action once per hour. and ancestry feats, selecting replacements from the
Divine Partner You complete your wing, as it new ancestry.
grows larger and gains a secondary smaller wing
PATIENT ZERO FEAT 20
to aid your flight. Your Fly speed increases to 40
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feet, and you no longer have any flight time limit.
Outsider Influence You tentacle grows thick and Prerequisite contagion
strong, and gains the ability to stretch and You have created a symptom for your contagion that
extend further. You have no size limit for your transcends the normal limits of disease. You gain
Trip or Grapple manuevers. Also, while you have access to the symptom that require this feat as a
a creature Grappled, whenever you succeed the prerequisite. And creature that you permanently
Athletics check to continue to Grapple the control with this symptom must be 4 levels or lower
creature, you squeeze and crunch the creature, than you, and you can only have up to 4 creatures
dealing damage equal to your tentacle's unarmed controlled in this way at any given time.
attack's damage.
Level 20
CAPRICIOUS CONTAGION FEAT 20
SYMBIOTE
Prerequisite Multi-Straining
Your contagion becomes impossible to predict. You can
change as many symptom stages as you want during
your daily preparations.
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Proliferation Spells
MIND FOG FOCUS 1
MENTAL NECROMANCY SYMBIOTE
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LIFESAP FOCUS 2
NECROMANCY SYMBIOTE
Critical Success The creature is unaffected and is no longer affected by your parasite's persistent damage.
Success As failure, except the creature takes half damage.
Failure The creature takes 2d6 damage matching the type of your parasite's persistent damage. You heal for the
same amount of the damage inflicted. The creature is no longer affected by your parasite's persistent damage.
Critical Failure As failure, except the creature takes double damage and the creature is still affected by your
parasite's persistent damage.
Heightened (+1): Damage dealt increases by 2d6.
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Symbiote Dedication
SYMBIOTE DEDICATION FEAT 2
ARCHETYPE DEDICATION MULTICLASS
Prerequisites Constitution 14
You become trained in unarmed attacks and your unarmed attacks deal 1 point of persistent bleed, mental, or
positive damage, with the damage type chosen upon taking this feat, and cannot be changed thereafter. You
become trained in Survival; if you are already trained in this skill, you become trained in a skill of your choice.
You become trained in symbiote class DC.
Special You can’t select another dedication feat until you have gained two other feats from the symbiote
archetype.
You select the symptoms for your contagion upon taking this feat; your effective symbiote level for the purposes
of selecting symptoms is equal to half your character level. You can swap symptoms by
EXPOSE
SYMBIOTE
You determine a correct method of assault to ensure a definite exposure to your contagion. Make a Strike with a
unarmed attack or weapon that can deliver your parasite's persistent damage (or the symbiote dedication's
persistent damage). On a success, you expose the target creature to your contagion and inflict a -1 circumstance
penalty to that saving throw against your contagion, and on a critical success, the creature additionally treats
that saving throw against your contagion as 1 degree worse.
Gain one symbiote feat. For the purposes of meeting its prerequisites, your symbiote level is equal to half your
character level.
Special You can select this feat more than once. Each time you select it, you gain another symbiote feat.
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Your infection causes your body to undergo rapid changes. You gain the following physical manifestation
depending on the type of persistent damage you chose for the symbiote dedication:
Bleed One of your arms swells and becomes as hard as stone, though imobile. You lose the ability to hold an
item with the limb. You can use an action to lift your arm to defend yourself, granting you a +1 circumstance
bonus to AC. You gain a petrified arm unarmed Strike that deals 1d8 bludgeoning damage and have the
shove and forceful traits. This unarmed Strike is in the brawling group and treats the hardness of objects as
1 lower for every 2 levels you have (minimum 1).
Mental One of your arms grows to be a tentacle, giving you a new unarmed attack with the grapple and trip
traits that does 1d6 damage.
Positive You grow a small wing out of your shoulder, granting you some maneuverability in the air, but not
flight. You treat falls as if they were 10 feet shorter, and you always land on your feet when falling. You also
increase your minimum Leap distance by 5 feet.
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Familiar Abilities
In addition, if you have access to focus spells or a spellcasting class feature, you gain the the following familiar
ability: Your familiar is a carrier of your parasite. Your familiar can Strike using your spellcasting ability
modifier as its attack modifier to inflict your parasite's persistent damage on a creature in its space.
If your parasite origin is Divine Partner, your familiar can perform Divine Stimulation as long as you would be
able to, doing so counts as you using Divine Stimulation.