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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 6610927" data-attributes="member: 30022">Which is why I was specific to use the terms "my group", "our style", etc. To quote someone: "Use the rules. Don't let the rules use you." Our group's take on familiar's is more in line with earlier versions of the game. The familiar is someone special. It's a personality. It has a name. It may get resentful if misused.According to the rules of the game, if Guenhwyvar was an actual animal companion and not a figurine of wondrous power, Driz'zt could send her in as expendable cannon fodder to trigger pits and ambushes. There's nothing in the ranger entry to say that she'd ever fail to obey the command. That goes double for actual figurines of wondrous power. However, he doesn't. He treats her as a friend.In our games, and consistent with a grand fantasy tradition, familiars and animal companions are real individuals with feelings... and maybe even personal goals. If treated well, they're boon companions. If treated like tools or "class features", then maybe they get a little resentful.That's it from me, for this thread. I appreciate the different perspectives, but I really only logged in for this one to help out the OP by pointing out the DMG rule that allowed for milking poison (note: ...even though I'd be a bit leery of allowing it myself). The rest was just color commentary about how my personal group would approach it: maybe allow the milking, but think of a creative story reason to discourage doing it on a regular or abusive basis. Cheers. <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=":-)" /></blockquote>

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