Can Improved Familiars be Banished?

[Arbane the Terrible]

Can an improved familiar that's an Outsider be banished by spells like Banish, Dismissal, Holy Word, etc? This seems inherently wrong, but I don't see anything stopping it from working.

If so, then 'Improved' Familiars just became a massive DOWNGRADE for a witch. Bye-bye spellbook...

And if so, is there any way to get them BACK?

[Noir le Lotus]

The Improved Familiar feat states :

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if the creature's type is something other than animal, its type does not change

So it seems that yes, outsiders can be banished when they are familiars and a witch is screwed if this kind of things happens to her familiar.

To get your familiar back, you can call him back with a Planar binding I suppose or go retrieve him with a Planeshift.

[Lochmonster]

What happens if that familiar happens to be the vessel for a soul, through the use of a Witch's Twin Soul ability or Dream Possesion abilities?

What happens to the soul in the Familiar? What if it's the witch's soul? What if it's someone else?

[Buri]

The body gets deported along with whatever soul is in it.

[darkwarriorkarg]

Anfd then get another one in a week
Why does everyone take imps or quasits? Is it because they can ony play evil witches?

Geyt a pseudo dragon or a fairy dragon (comes with UMD and sorcerer casting!)

[wraithstrike]

Commune is a nice divination spell. Imps have it. :)

[Buri]

Commune is an excellent spell. I would prefer to get whichever angelic/good familiar that gets it though. But, yes, the faery/psuedodragon is a very sexy familiar.

[Arbane the Terrible]

darkwarriorkarg wrote:

Anfd then get another one in a week

Why does everyone take imps or quasits? Is it because they can ony play evil witches?

My witch is Neutral Good and has a Silvanshee. Still a banishable outsider. :(

[Tiems]

I'm afraid my arbiter would also be affected... I never realised this, though.
I hope my DM doesn't either.

And otherwise it'd be a matter of procuring some planar binding somewhere...
I'd hate to see my flying spellbook go, though!

[Buri]

Scrolls are cheap. Unless your arbiter has over 6 HD a lesser binding is really cheap.