Mark Hoover 330 |
Mr doom, would the book an animated object, like the objects around the Beast's castle in the animated movie Beauty and the Beast? Like, the book has arms and legs and a face? If so yes, making a homunculus from a book shape is feasible.
If the book was more the flying, biting version of the Necronomicon Ex Mortis (roughly translated, "book of the dead") from the Evil Dead series of movies, I'm guessing that's a magic item.
Going the Magic Item route, what if you just took a Bonded Object (spellbook), made the thing into a Wondrous Item, and then figured out a way to get a permanent version of Impart Mind on it? You could also permanize Fly, Mage Hand, Book Ward and other defensive spells to ensure its safety.
zza ni |
improved familiar 'Shikigami' kami with a book as it's ward can manifest it's physical body as a somewhat small humanoid book.
this would not be your book as a moving thing but it's guardian spirit. (who might also have opinions of it's own, like not liking it when you read ITS book...something like the Librarian from disk-world and his dislike to anyone who comes into this library to read the books.)
Lelomenia |
Book isn’t a Bonded Object option; doesn’t look like any of the archetypes support this. Seems like there ought to be a feat or something tho.
1% of permanent magic items (some of which are Spellbooks) are intelligent though, and you could take an intelligent spellbook as a cohort through Leadership. You could also use a book that has an associated Kami, and then take that Kami as your familiar. Unfortunately it appears at that point it would stop Warding your book and start treating you as it’s ward. There’s almost certainly other stuff too.
ErichAD |
You could use the Familiar Automaton it can look like anything really.
A familiar automaton is usually the same size and twice the weight of the creature after which it is modeled. For the most part, nonfeline familiar automatons use the same statistics as the cat-based familiar automaton presented here, but more powerful familiar automatons may have additional abilities better suited for their more unique frames. On rare occasions, a familiar automaton bears spells engraved in markings on its body—usually signature spells of ancient mages, engraved on their forms by request. Some mages today keep these automatons as their personal familiars. A 7th-level lawful spellcaster with the Improved Familiar feat can select a familiar automaton as a familiar. These familiars serve well due to their innate ability to understand magic and magical items.
That seems pretty flexible.
Dasrak |
A spellbook familiar archetype for the wizard does exist. The book bond is actually really cool, but the rest of the archetype is absolutely atrocious. It's not even particularly flavorful, it's just giving you spell-like abilities that duplicate regular wizard spells that you could already cast anyways...
doomman47 |
A spellbook familiar archetype for the wizard does exist. The book bond is actually really cool, but the rest of the archetype is absolutely atrocious. It's not even particularly flavorful, it's just giving you spell-like abilities that duplicate regular wizard spells that you could already cast anyways...
Ya I saw that one and its not really what I'm trying to go for plus its not that great of an archetype.