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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 3163370" data-attributes="member: 4826">In the game I'm running, there came a moment when the second level mage was stabbed twice in the same round by two lizardmen with spears (incidentally, the mage was being exceptionally brave, deliberately distracting two lizardmen by making himself a target, thereby enabling another PC to make a vital action unobstructed).When eleven points of damage were calculated, the player scribbled something on his sheet and said, "Whew!"A moment of mental arithmetic flashed between myself and the players, one of whom asked the question on everybody's lips, "You're still standing?""Just," replied the mage's player."How?" Asked the other, knowing the mage PC's con bonus and feats could not account for this miracle."My familiar," replied the player."Er," said I, "you don't have one. You spent all your starting gold wisely but not on summoning a familiar.""Ah." He tipped over his mini, groaning, "Minus two!"The party slew their adversaries and the cleric reached him at minus seven. The PC has just reached level three and should be summoning his familiar at the beginning of the next session.Coincidentally, I'm playing in another game with the same group. In this game, just begun, I'm playing one of two PC wizards. Neither of us have familiars just yet but I'm thinking I might just try surviving a couple of levels and then summon one.</blockquote>