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Could I get some clarification on how Familiars work?
1) In order to personally get the benefit of improved senses (e.g. Advantage on Perception) I would need to spend an Action to start "seeing through it's eyes", correct? So it wouldn't benefit me detecting a trap or secret door while walking down a corridor, unless I told the DM "I stop and spend an action seeing through my familiar...". Correct?
2) Can my familiar detect traps/secret doors on its own, and then just tell me?
3) Based on RAW plus Twitter clarification from JC, it seems any familiar can use the Help action to grant Advantage on an attack. Does that seriously mean that an Owl can fly in, Help, then fly away and not provoke an opportunity attack? The Owl does not need to be next to the target on its master's turn?
4) Is there any reason the familiar can't Help somebody other than its master, and give them advantage instead?
5) Since familiars deliver touch attacks using their reaction, does that mean that they have to be next to the target on the master's turn? And, if so, the Owl therefore can't use its fly-by trick. Right?
6) If the answers to 3 & 4 are Yes and Yes, does that mean the familiar can both deliver a touch attack AND give Advantage to another character in the same round?
Thanks!
1) In order to personally get the benefit of improved senses (e.g. Advantage on Perception) I would need to spend an Action to start "seeing through it's eyes", correct? So it wouldn't benefit me detecting a trap or secret door while walking down a corridor, unless I told the DM "I stop and spend an action seeing through my familiar...". Correct?
2) Can my familiar detect traps/secret doors on its own, and then just tell me?
3) Based on RAW plus Twitter clarification from JC, it seems any familiar can use the Help action to grant Advantage on an attack. Does that seriously mean that an Owl can fly in, Help, then fly away and not provoke an opportunity attack? The Owl does not need to be next to the target on its master's turn?
4) Is there any reason the familiar can't Help somebody other than its master, and give them advantage instead?
5) Since familiars deliver touch attacks using their reaction, does that mean that they have to be next to the target on the master's turn? And, if so, the Owl therefore can't use its fly-by trick. Right?
6) If the answers to 3 & 4 are Yes and Yes, does that mean the familiar can both deliver a touch attack AND give Advantage to another character in the same round?
Thanks!
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