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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5067088" data-attributes="member: 19675">Funny thing.This guy is a replacement PC for one I retired.  The campaign had gone dormant, and when dusted off, I no longer wanted to play the old PC.The DM originally told me we had gained enough XP in the interim to be 12th level (the retired PC was 10th), so I designed him with the Improved Familiar to start off with.  The PC himself, though, has all of the plant features from the Geomancer Drift list, so he's very oriented towards being out in the open.  But given that 1) He's a priest of Obad-Hai with the Plant and Earth Domains, the Earth Elemental familiar seemed very appropriate.  Besides, there's no Plant familiar.I started statting up the Familiar and some of the more appropriate critters from the Summon Monster Lists- including each of the Small Elementals- I noticed the discrepancy.  Just days before the first game night, he corrected himself and stated the PCs were actually supposed to be 11th level...ehhhh...there goes the Familiar.  I figured I'd raise the question when we got to 12th level.Well, as it turns out, we've been spending a LOT of this story arc underground, encountering Desmodu, and with possible looming encounters with Drow, Beholders, and Salamanders.Now it could look like I'm powergaming if I lobby too hard for Earthglide...not that Air, Fire or Water elementals would be slouchy.  (And I doubt he'd let me design a Plant Familiar of some kind- he doesn't do much houseruling.)  OTOH, since my PC is really designed as a peaceful superhealer- he has very little offensive spell capacity- the potential for abuse is actually quite minimal.  Most touch delivered spells in his current repertoire are Cures/Heals or an array of buffs.The real main reason for the Earthglide was to keep the little fellah alive!  Some of the DMs in our group have shown a marked hostility to the continued survival of "pets," like the retired PC's familiar.The ironic thing is that the retired PC was inspired by Indiana Jones, so he was geared up for subterranean encounters...right down to his Bat familiar (R.I.P. Masterson <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />).</blockquote>

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