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DMs: how do you integrate familiars into the game?
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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 101728" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Familiars in my campaign are actually rather significant NPC's.</p><p></p><p>One of them, for a female elven wizard, has gone since LV 1. He's a cat, and got killed at one point. The PC's went on a quest to rescue him, and it turns out that the whole dying thing turned him into a ravishingly handsome and suave dude when he wants to be. He's fiercely protective of the elven wizard, but not to the point of suicide, and a bit overconfident about his human form (he's got no weapons...just his fists and a lot of cojones. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</p><p></p><p>Another one was a gecko familiar for a human sorcerer. They were actually rather antagonistic to each other, the sorc demanding things and the gecko hiding away. At one point, the party got a little mini-golem, and the gecko holed up inside. And the mini-golem was equipped with all the modern amenities. Even after the sorc died, the gecko was still a prominant character...until a gnome squished 'em.</p><p></p><p>The same player now has a human psion, and his rock can now talk....I'm still struggling a bit with this one. It's supposed to be the stubborn, bullheaded psicrystal, but I can't think of what a familiar could be bullheaded about. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 101728, member: 2067"] Familiars in my campaign are actually rather significant NPC's. One of them, for a female elven wizard, has gone since LV 1. He's a cat, and got killed at one point. The PC's went on a quest to rescue him, and it turns out that the whole dying thing turned him into a ravishingly handsome and suave dude when he wants to be. He's fiercely protective of the elven wizard, but not to the point of suicide, and a bit overconfident about his human form (he's got no weapons...just his fists and a lot of cojones. ;)) Another one was a gecko familiar for a human sorcerer. They were actually rather antagonistic to each other, the sorc demanding things and the gecko hiding away. At one point, the party got a little mini-golem, and the gecko holed up inside. And the mini-golem was equipped with all the modern amenities. Even after the sorc died, the gecko was still a prominant character...until a gnome squished 'em. The same player now has a human psion, and his rock can now talk....I'm still struggling a bit with this one. It's supposed to be the stubborn, bullheaded psicrystal, but I can't think of what a familiar could be bullheaded about. :) [/QUOTE]
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