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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RuminDange" data-source="post: 1642024" data-attributes="member: 5412">Well, I gotten one familiar that I remember in 20+ years as DM.  This was last year, in our 3E game.  The Player had an Eagle Owl as a familiar (a fairly large type of owl) Anyways he sits down in the forest on a solo adventure (sort of, the party are linked with a set telepathic rings of status they won from a BBEGroup.) Anyway he sits down in middle of the late evening, to do a commune with nature. You know 10 minutes of spell casting with only his familiar looking over him.  About 5 minutes into his casting his familiar fails the spot and listen checks to notice the displacer beasts that were already in the area and had come to check out the noise he was making getting in tune with nature.  They spot him, and the large owl.  Two attack him while a third goes for the easy snack of the owl.Some of the other PC's detect the fact he is taking damage and scry to find him and teleport in to help him as he is getting tore up by the displacers. They finally defeat or run off the displacers but not before one party member while trying to help him kills him in an area effect spell.  The displacer beast that got the owl had an easy snack and left when the fireworks began.They ended up finding some of the remains of the owl and after the PC was rezzed. He paid to get his owl back as well.  A few months ago, his character parted ways with the owl leaving it in the grove of the PC Druid, who intends to awaken the owl one day.  He decided he no longer wanted a familiar not because of that but because he tends to forget about his animal companions and familiars as well as NPC cohorts, and allies all the time even with reminders, hints and jabs from the other PC's and me (in game, in character)  He also has an awakened Cooshee that he had left behind as a cohort previously for several days in this forest before remembering that he teleported and left the cooshee fighting worgs and goblins.  He went to help a town under siege several days away after fighting some goblins on worgs that was chasing a rider to the next town seeking help.  The cooshee made it, it was learned how to be a ranger (he isn’t).  The cooshee is also currently hanging out around the PC Druid’s grove (ie the one that awakened him to give a chance to survive hanging around his life long companion/master).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />But I tend not to go after familiars or even animal companions unless they become targets because of being involved.  This was one of many cases of the player being careless.  This had happened before, but the last time he had done a solo commune with nature in the forest he had gotten attacked by a gibbering mouthier and was nearly killed had his dancing sword not finished off the mouthier after he was knocked unconscious and into the negatives and stuck waist deep in the ground after the mouthier used its ability to soften the ground underneath them.  Again he was rescued by the PC Druid who still gives him a hard time of this kind of stuff.RD</blockquote>

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