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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 104091" data-attributes="member: 114">Thanks for all the input, and the poll results are interesting.As a DM, two of my current players have a familiar, and I'm delighted that one of them has chosen a raven - because at least he starts out with a voice, and I find it *much* easier to RP when I can give something a voice! The cat familiar hasn't really done much, the two psicrystal "psuedopersonalities" haven't been up to much (I really ought to do more whispering of thoughts from them) and the early and now long deceased owl familiar was just a flying scout.Part of the problem I find as a DM is that most of the familiars can't talk at this level, and I'm never quite sure what kind of information can/should be transmitted by empathic link...As a player, my Paladin/Sorcerer (a really bad combo, in practice!) has a toad familiar named Rorschach (rolling 1hp three levels in a row has that kind of effect on your decision making...). So far the only useful thing I've been able to use him for other than the obvious is sneaking through holes in earthquake rubble, looking for survivors who could be rescued. So far my DM hasn't really done anything about giving him a personality, perhaps when he gets to the level where he can talk things will change.Cheers</blockquote>