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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 6554120" data-attributes="member: 20323">I'm thinking of going with a kind of mash up of familiar, mimir, and fighter.<img src="http://cl.jroo.me/z3/F/-/J/d/a.aaa-The-face-book.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The idea is that this once mighty planewalking mage Shandrizar the All-Seeing ends up trapped in Graydon's spellbook. He's a bit megalomaniacal despite being lawful good, and hasn't quite grasped that cosmic power is no longer within his grasp and he's basically reduced to being a glorified bundle of kindling between two stiff covers. Expect lots of smarmy deadpan humor with D&Disms tossed in, a la "I think you just Power Word: Stupified an ogre. A-mazing."I don't think there's any harm stating him up and seeing how things go. If it seems like my posting frequency works ok for the group during combat then great. If not, then I can make him strictly non-combat. Sounds like most of you guys are open to giving it a shot, so I'm game if you are. Course correction is always possible after we see how my posting frequency pans out.Mechanically...it raises all kinds of wacky rules question.If he's Graydon's familiar, then when reduced to 0 HP he vanishes until Graydon casts Summon Familiar again. Of course, this means that Graydon's spellbook vanishes, in which he has Summon Familiar transcribed, so if he doesn't have the spell in memory and his spellbook vanishes.... You see the dilemma.How do I represent the animated spellbook as an unarmed combatant? It looks like the ways to make that viable are to (a) treat the spellbook like a club (mechanically I'd be treated as equipped with a club that is undisarmable), (b) give him monk levels to make him an effective unarmed combatant (e.g. fighter 1, monk 1), or (c) take the Tavern Brawler feat.How do I represent the animated spellbook as a race? I'm looking at either (a) modified human or gnome, or (b) completely Homebrew class modeled after the animated object entry in the MM that would have a feature which resolves the familiar issue raised above. [MENTION=6781406]Unsung[/MENTION] Yes, I'm thinking the same way about a less tactically involved character. I may try writing him up as a 5e monster stat block actually.</blockquote>

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