Has a familiar from class features or Obtain Familiar, compatible alignment, arcane spellcaster level 6th
When choosing a familiar, the creatures listed below are also available to the spellcaster. The spellcaster may choose a familiar with an alignment up to one step away on each of the alignment axes (lawful through chaotic, good through evil). For example, a chaotic good spellcaster could acquire a neutral familiar. A lawful neutral spellcaster could acquire a neutral good familiar.
Familiar
Alignment
Shocker Lizard
Neutral
Stirge
Neutral
Formian Worker
Lawful neutral
Imp
Lawful evil
Pseudodragon
Neutral good
Quasit
Chaotic evil
Improved familiars otherwise use the normal familiar rules, with two exceptions: If the creature’s type is something other than animal, its type does not change; and improved familiars do not gain the ability to speak with other creatures of their kind (although many of them already have the ability to communicate). The list in the table above presents only a few possible improved familiars. Almost any creature of the same general size and power as those on the list makes a suitable familiar.