They're a delivery system for touch spells, a way you dont have to go into the fray to heal, for example.
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Source of snarky comments and quips that will help turn your adventures into best-selling books later.
It largely depends on whether it's my Familiar or someone else's...
Breed it with someone else's familiar and sell the eggs/offspring. Bonus points if you manage to do this cross-species.
Imp and Quasit would be interesting.
Find the shiny objects. Hopefully they share them with you.
Scout, especially if they are a type of creature normally found in the area. It doesn't work quite as well if you send you artic hare to scout in the desert...
Wake people up.
If it is cute, might be able to use it as a conversation starter.
If it has paws capable of doing such, give it a healing salve to dump on you if you go down in combat.
Make snarky comments about being smarter than the Paladin.
Dot
Explosive Rune detonator.
Give the familiar any beneficial touch spell, instruct it to deliver the touch on you on a command word. Free contingency!
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Gives bored adventurers something to think about. "Hey guys, what are 1001 uses for my familiar?"
Cast Alter Self on it and pass it off for your butler.
Cast Alter Self on it and pass it off for your butler....or girlfriend.Would be a very strange use of Empathic Link, and bound to get awkward later. But who am I to judge? A cat is fine too.
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*walks away from blackbloodtroll slowly*
My wizard always walks around with a big cloak and mask, I have a second set of clothes and mask, I could technically use my familiar as a body double!
It's a fairy dragon so I guess it could mimic being a wizard hehehe.
I could even dress up as the squire of the wizard and be the real boss hiding in play sight!
a improvised weapon
The brains of the party.
Remote bomb delivery and activation mechanism.
I've been looking for confirmation about this very question...can an owl familiar 'drop bombs/potions/caltrops/etc.'?? Certainly not at level 1 since "Empathic Link (Su):....Because of the link's limited nature, only general emotions can be shared."
I can maybe see at lvl 5 when they can Communicate with Master, but would you required Handle Animal skills to do something like this? To me it just seems to go above and beyond what a familiar should be able to do.
Any official ruling or is this all house rules?
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for Role Play reasons (and because she is just really CUTE) I just picked up a Pseudo-dragon Familiar... so I dropped in here to see if I could find some Kewl Things to add to my Character. (I'm mostly a Bard, with a level of Sorcerer to gain access to a Familiar...)
Most of the suggestions leave a little be to be desired. Sigh...
Useful pointers on how to make a Familiar fun at the table (useful, or cool, or just fun to have a the table) would be very nice.
Thank you in advance for your help with my character...
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Step #1- Roll up an Eldrich Guardian (fighter with a familiar)
Step #2- Take a box turtle or hedgehog with the Sage archetype
Step #3- Take it out of your pocket for spiritual and arcane consultation.
Step #4- Do as your tiny companion commands (It ends up with 25 INT and all the knowledge skills, so it's probably decent advice).
"Why is you great sword weilding fighter friend taking to a rodent.... and following it's orders?"
(Shrugs)"I seems to know more than the sorcerer, so why not?"
Maybe even enough to know that neither turtles nor hedgehogs are rodents."Why is you great sword weilding fighter friend taking to a rodent.... and following it's orders?"
(Shrugs)"I seems to know more than the sorcerer, so why not?"
Seeing you take my comedic post absolutely literally restores my lost faith in humanity.
Also I know that hedgehogs and box turtles aren't actually of the "tiny" size.
Step #1- Roll up an Eldrich Guardian (fighter with a familiar)
Step #2- Take abox turtle or hedgehograt aka miniature space hamster with the Sage archetype
Step #3- Name him Boo
Step #4- Take it out of your pocket for spiritual and arcane consultation.
Step #5- Do as your tiny companion commands (It ends up with 25 INT and all the knowledge skills, so it's probably decent advice)."Why is you great sword weilding fighter friend taking to a rodent.... and following it's orders?"
(Shrugs)"I seems to know more than the sorcerer, so why not?"
FTFY ;)
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for Role Play reasons (and because she is just really CUTE) I just picked up a Pseudo-dragon Familiar... so I dropped in here to see if I could find some Kewl Things to add to my Character. (I'm mostly a Bard, with a level of Sorcerer to gain access to a Familiar...)
Most of the suggestions leave a little be to be desired. Sigh...
Useful pointers on how to make a Familiar fun at the table (useful, or cool, or just fun to have a the table) would be very nice.
Thank you in advance for your help with my character...
Train it to hold a hat for coins during your performances.
Create illusions of it battling with other tiny monsters and get people to place bets. Telepathically communicate with him to have him win or fake a loss depending on which would yield the better financial results.
Steal group BDF's meat off their plate at dinner.
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for Role Play reasons (and because she is just really CUTE) I just picked up a Pseudo-dragon Familiar... so I dropped in here to see if I could find some Kewl Things to add to my Character. (I'm mostly a Bard, with a level of Sorcerer to gain access to a Familiar...)
Most of the suggestions leave a little be to be desired. Sigh...
Useful pointers on how to make a Familiar fun at the table (useful, or cool, or just fun to have a the table) would be very nice.
Thank you in advance for your help with my character...
Train it to hold a hat for coins during your performances.
Create illusions of it battling with other tiny monsters and get people to place bets. Telepathically communicate with him to have him win or fake a loss depending on which would yield the better financial results.
Steal group BDF's meat off their plate at dinner.
wow... thank you! I had about given up on getting any good suggestions.
I like the "Create illusions of it battling with other tiny monsters ..." ... this is giving me some ideas....
Pseudodragons have telepathy; impersonating others with the same ability might not be beyond them. Angels, a master vampire communicating with its thralls, maybe even the recipient's own thoughts...
18. You never know when you'll be out of TP in-the-field.
(Disclosure: I may possibly have seen "Those Who Hunt Elves".)
The hex channeler can channel from her familiar so suicide bunnies charge into the horde of the undead! Or you could just send a bird.
Profession, craft or Alchemy checks to make a profit during downtime. (Opposable thumb helps: brownie, imp, quasit. Earth Mephits outsider type and homunculus construct type, don't need sleep so can work 3 shifts per day)
Monstrous spiders farming silk. (Profession weaver on master)
Pigs, chickens, goats, helping herd animals and adding to breeding stock. (Profession farmer on master)
Cats, hawks and falcons on pest control. (Survival foragers too, like said above. But pest control mainly)
IIRC, there's no familiar with burrow (like the animal companion badger)... or I'd say fast ditch digger / soil tiller.
Pigs, chickens and goats can potentially be decent bait for bandits too.
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I’m a fan of the easy chair shaped earth elemental to keep the lazy halfling caster from ever having to actually walk anywhere.