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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 9725244" data-attributes="member: 6877472">I mean, with DM permission, any caster can gain a Quasit as a Familiar, right?  Ditto with Pseudodragons and other options not part of the spell's normal availability.The guy took a shortcut, but if he's already got a working relationship with the Quasit, the demon's dark masters are probably like "yeah, stay on the job, tempt him to our side".-Now, in most games, I don't see this as a problem.  The Quasit's contributions shouldn't be that insane that the game would become unbalanced.  But if you are a stickler for these kinds of things, or, say, you have two Chain Pact Warlocks and one wants to change their Pact, and the other feels put out by it, you could call it an exploit- but you'd run into the same issue if a player gets a special Familiar as a Boon or DM reward anyways.Strictly RAW, it's probably not intended that you do this sort of thing, if that's important to you and your group.  I think most of the issues people would have with this is the narrative of this guy just re-negotiating his Pact and would demand an explanation.OTOH, those same people probably have similar issues with things you're already allowed to retrain, like spells known- and since you've already allowed the retraining, I think that's all pretty moot anyways.</blockquote>