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Message: <blockquote data-quote="evileeyore" data-source="post: 178131" data-attributes="member: 1768">I whole heartedly agree.The rub comes, when as in my group, we have multiple people who DM.When I initially mentioned these rules to a few of them, I got two different answers (as is want to happen).Now our group tries to follow what is written without really any house rules (we try the variant classes occasionaly, etc).The two answers I got were:"Its common sense man, of course familiars don't have darkvision or lowlight vision, in fact animals don't have lowlight unless the base animal in real life would have it."  (paraphrased down from larger discussion)and:"Well I'd have to read those rules agian and some other stuff, and I'll make a decision.  However pretty much all animals have atleast lowlight." (paraphrased down from larger discussion)So since answer 2 comes from the DM currently running, and most likely to be running when I start playing a Src/Wiz for the first time, I am trying to get all the angles (Yeah I am a bit of a rules Lawyer).See I believe that familiars have a special place in the story, and as I want to have as many familiars as I can, they'll have a big place in my part of the story.In past games familiars had less screen time or personality than the Fighters favorite weapon.  Heck I knew the name our Dwarven Fighter gave his Dwarven Throwing Axe, I can almost remember the name of the Gnome Druids awakened riding dog, buuuut I can't even remember whether the Wizard had an owl or a hawk, or wether it had a name or not. (Owl I think, only because we were adveturing in the UnderDark).I plan on getting a lot of screen time off my familiars.  I want their names to be remembered as easily as the fighters favorite weapon.</blockquote>

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