Familiar: Monkey

[FCWesel]

Are there any offical stats for a monkey familiar? If you could tell me what book and what page, that would be great.

Thanks

 

[Conaill]

Crystal Keep's Index of Creatures has a large list of published alternative familiars, including all the ones from Tome&Blood, and a bunch from Dragon Magazine.

Here ya go:

Monkey (Dragon 277, p65)
Lvl: 1
Bonus to Master: +2 to Pick Pocket checks
Popular with: Halflings, Rogues

 

[Conaill]

Make sure to give your monkey some CLW potions. Comes in handy when you (or anyone else in the party) fall unconscious in battle...

 

[Chun-tzu]

I'd like to see d20 stats for a monkey's poop-flinging attack. And maybe a feat that allows monkeys to use typewriters.

 

[jaldaen]

Hey there!

I'm the writer for Mongoose's upcoming "Encyclopedia Arcane: Familiars- Crouching Monkey, Hidden Toad"... if you are looking for a monkey familiar it'll be stat'd out for you when this bad boy hits the shelves in June... not to mention scarab beetles, penguins, raccoons, and other creatures!

Take Care,
Joseph

 

[Conaill]

How are you guys planning to deal with the overlap with familiars published in, say, Dragon Magazine and Tome & Blood?

Sounds like the T&B ones will be in the 3.5 DMG, and thus OGL. But monkey and raccon familars have already occured in Dragon for example (DR280 p61 for raccoon).

 

[jaldaen]

The EA:Familiars book presents a "Top Ten" most wanted familiars (based off of a thread I did here last summer) so although there might be some overlap they are probably treated differently from those presented elsewhere (i.e. not in the MM) by WotC... also a couple familiars from the core (like the toad) get a slight change to the boon they provide... Finally, rules are provided that detail how to determine an approriate boon for animals not "familiarized" and a list of boons for every creature in the MM with a CR level of 13 or less... for those who like to get the most out of their familiars ;-)

Take Care,
Joseph Miller

 

[Lord Pendragon]

Finally, rules are provided that detail how to determine an approriate boon for animals not "familiarized" and a list of boons for every creature in the MM with a CR level of 13 or less... for those who like to get the most out of their familiars ;-)

Is this serious? In what kind of game would a CR13 familiar be appropriate?

 

[Pax]

Is this serious? In what kind of game would a CR13 familiar be appropriate?

What about the Improved Familiar feat being given an Epic counterpart, "Supreme Familiar" ... ?

Perhaps your Wizard(20)/Demonlogist(20) has an Erinyes as a familiar, rather than a "mere" Imp or Quasit.

Perhaps your Sorceror(20)/Elemental Savant(20) has better than a tiny elemental for her familiar.

Most campaigns won't have a need or use for such powerful beings as familiars.

But some might be glad of rules addressing the issue, indeed.

 

[Jondor_Battlehammer]

Is this serious? In what kind of game would a CR13 familiar be appropriate?

Well, for starters, do you honestly see a Dragon with levels of Wizard flying around with a Toad on his shoulder? Dire Toad, maybe. But if I'm going to do something that wicked to my PC's, he's going to have something sweet, like a Hell Hound/Blink Dog hybrid, or maybe a Rogue/Blackgaurd/Shadowdancer. Ooo, I'm inspired.