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The sixth adventure is The Forbidden Vale, for Level 9 characters. This is also the second adventure in which those darn ancient...

I just opened my hard copy .... what a beautiful book. As I said, the intro sections for every adventure are great. The art is diverse...

Can you elaborate on that?

It changes their creature type. So a cat familiar is a fey or a fiend, not a beast.

That's the rub isn't it? 5e is "sort of" designed around not needing as many magic items-some, like magic weapons, or saving throw...

Unless the rules specify a part of anatomy that an animal doesn't have, they can use the item. Air bud logic: "ain't no rule says a dog...

Today’s Epic Monster is probably my all-time favorite entry in the series because honestly how could it be anything else? I’m talking of...

You are correct the rules only require it to be creature that forms a bond. Perhaps I was thinking of identifying a magical item without...

Of note is, ofc, the attunement requirements. Since we did mention a wand, I believe most (all?) wands require the user to be a...

AFAIK attunement only requires that it be a creature. That applies to anything that would be a familiar.

You clearly haven't read my fanfic.

You say Isle of Dogs was fun and light? It uh... my wife did not agree. She had to leave before the end, though. My favorite was Grand...

Agreed. I have found that the magic item attunement limit works well to limit power in campaigns where magic items are more readily...

Agreed. Unfortunately I can't nix attunement, because I think 5e (and A5E) characters already are powerful enough without magic items...

Generally, the way I see it is, if any companion can use magic, they all should be able to. If you rule "well, this one can and this...