Blood Magus Familiar

[Boogie_man]

So I'm going to be playing a Blood Magus in an upcoming adventure and I decided to blow a feat on Improved Familiar. I noticed that Small Water Elemental is one of the options and thought to myself, "Ya know what would be really cool...a blood elemental." I mean its kinda goofy but its mostly for style purposes.

As a DM would you allow this and how would you handle it?

 

[Voadam]

Yes, but also note there is a blood elemental in the ravenloft 3e monster books you might want to check out/ask your DM about.

 

[BiggusGeekus]

So I'm going to be playing a Blood Magus in an upcoming adventure and I decided to blow a feat on Improved Familiar. I noticed that Small Water Elemental is one of the options and thought to myself, "Ya know what would be really cool...a blood elemental." I mean its kinda goofy but its mostly for style purposes.

As a DM would you allow this and how would you handle it?

1) Toss the vampire template on the elemental

or

2) Swap out Vortext with some kind of life-stealing self-heal. Like for every 5hp of damage it does, it heals 1hp or something like that.

 

[ericlboyd]

If you're going to spend a feat on Improved Familiar, you might consider the blood imp (in the fiend folio, I believe). It's basically an imp loaded down with blood in its veins, making it the perfect stirge lure, vampire larder, or blood magus familiar (at least from a role-playing perspective, havent' thought about how the abilities match up).

--Eric

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

I mean its kinda goofy but its mostly for style purposes.

As a DM would you allow this and how would you handle it?

Just use the stats for the Water Elemental. Blood is mostly water anyway. Say it's a littel bag of mobile water. You really don't have to change anything (you can, but you don't NEED to). If you are doing it for style reasons. Just SAY its a Blood Elemental, but when it comes down to game mechanics, treat it like a Water Elemental.

That's the easiest, more direct way to do it.

 

[Anti-Sean]

Heh - I read the thread title as A PC having a Blood Magus *as* a familiar.

But then I got to thinking... can a homunculus take class levels? I know the MM/SRD gives them HD advancement. but if a homunculus could take class levels and then qualify for the Blood Magus PrC, that could be pretty cool. Until it creates a homunculus of its own via the PrC's 5th level ability. And that homunculus becomes a Blood Magus, and creates its own at 5th level... And on and on and on...

 

[Benito]

Ran across "official" blood elemental stats on Wizards: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20030208a