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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7772688" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>As a D&D familiar? No, not really. The 0e & AD&D Find Familiar spell didn't deliver a homunculus, rather, a wizard could make a homunculus if he really wanted to. I can't recall if the formula (materials/costs, time & spells) was in Eldritch Wizardry, or the AD&D MM or somewhere else, but it existed.</p><p></p><p>The AD&D homunculus was remarkably derivative of the monster of the same name in Harryhausen's awesome 1973 opus, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. The Tom Baker's evil Prince Koura constructs a "living homunculus" from chemicals and gives it life with his own blood, at the cost of aging visibly - actually, all his magic looked pretty alchemical, but was derived from pacts with dark powers, and caused him to age as a 'price.' D&D used the aging as a price of powerful magic, a lot. Koura can see through the eyes of his homunculus and is harmed when it is killed. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]104953[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Except for the sleep-inducing bite, the D&D homunculus is a pretty close match.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]104954[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Neither bear much resemblance to a 'real' homunculus. You see, back in the 16th century a crazy/brilliant guy calling himself Paracelsus prettymuch just pickled a foetus and called it an homunculus. </p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]104955[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>OK, that was a tad flipant: Paracelsus was arguably a father (great grandfather? crazy old uncle?) of modern medicine. Google him. It's interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 7772688, member: 996"] As a D&D familiar? No, not really. The 0e & AD&D Find Familiar spell didn't deliver a homunculus, rather, a wizard could make a homunculus if he really wanted to. I can't recall if the formula (materials/costs, time & spells) was in Eldritch Wizardry, or the AD&D MM or somewhere else, but it existed. The AD&D homunculus was remarkably derivative of the monster of the same name in Harryhausen's awesome 1973 opus, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. The Tom Baker's evil Prince Koura constructs a "living homunculus" from chemicals and gives it life with his own blood, at the cost of aging visibly - actually, all his magic looked pretty alchemical, but was derived from pacts with dark powers, and caused him to age as a 'price.' D&D used the aging as a price of powerful magic, a lot. Koura can see through the eyes of his homunculus and is harmed when it is killed. [ATTACH=CONFIG]104953[/ATTACH] Except for the sleep-inducing bite, the D&D homunculus is a pretty close match. [ATTACH=CONFIG]104954[/ATTACH] Neither bear much resemblance to a 'real' homunculus. You see, back in the 16th century a crazy/brilliant guy calling himself Paracelsus prettymuch just pickled a foetus and called it an homunculus. [ATTACH=CONFIG]104955[/ATTACH] OK, that was a tad flipant: Paracelsus was arguably a father (great grandfather? crazy old uncle?) of modern medicine. Google him. It's interesting. [/QUOTE]
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