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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rune" data-source="post: 100645" data-attributes="member: 67">Man, you are soooo right about that.  The monkey familiar in my campaign (see the sig) is great.  I also run the familiars as NPCs, but I do pay attention to the player's interests.  For example, the halfling monk (/Sorceror) with the monkey familiar is always trying to teach his monkey (which is the size of a cat) martial arts.  He also has a tendency to solve big, life-threatening problems with fire.  The monkey does not ever perform specific actions where the players can see it (like fighting, or whatnot), but occassionally the players will round a corner and see the monkey sitting triumphantly atop the unconscious form of, say, a ratling that they have been pursuing.  The chances of that monkey actually using martial arts to knock out the bad guy are very slim, but nobody actually saw anything, so who knows?  Also, the monkey may be a bit of a pyromaniac.  Monkey see, monkey do, and all that.The other familiar in my game is run quite differently.  It happens to have an alignment that often conflicts with the alignment/interest of its bonded companion and acts as a conscience, of sorts (like Fras, from (Contact)'s games).  There is a good reason for this, but I'll not spoil the suspense, just in case there are readers of the story hour on this thread.But, man, monkeys sure are funny.[edit]One more thing about the monkey familiar that was fun was how it was summoned.  It had been hanging around the character for a while (I knew what the character wanted for a familiar) and when the time came, I decided that the material cost for the summoning would be paid for in the following manner:  the monkey ran off with the halfling's (caster's) money.  When it came back, sans money, it was a familiar.</blockquote>

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