Luthien Greyspear
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Does anyone know if there are any rules/restrictions on familiars taking class levels? They have the intelligence (maybe not for wizard, but still...).
More importantly (for my campaign), are there any rules forbidding a wizard or sorceror from taking his own familiar as a cohort? Perhaps by counting the familiar as a character of half the PC's class level (rounded up), and allowing it to gain levels as the wiz/sorc gains levels, up to a practical limit of the PC's Leadership score?
For instance, Alison, a 6th-level Wizard with a 14 Charisma has a familiar, Chikka the flying squirrel. She has just taken the Leadership feat (Leadership score of 8), and Chikka becomes her (3rd-level equivalent) cohort, below the limit of a 4th-level cohort. Next level (7th), the maximum cohort level goes up by one, and Chikka's equivalent level automatically goes up by one (to 4th-level). The level after that, while the max cohort level goes up by one, Chikka's equivalent level does not (as half of 7, rounded up, is the same as half of 8). Could Chikka gain a level of rogue, or maybe ranger, to continue to be effective as a cohort? Or is this simply not possible?
More importantly (for my campaign), are there any rules forbidding a wizard or sorceror from taking his own familiar as a cohort? Perhaps by counting the familiar as a character of half the PC's class level (rounded up), and allowing it to gain levels as the wiz/sorc gains levels, up to a practical limit of the PC's Leadership score?
For instance, Alison, a 6th-level Wizard with a 14 Charisma has a familiar, Chikka the flying squirrel. She has just taken the Leadership feat (Leadership score of 8), and Chikka becomes her (3rd-level equivalent) cohort, below the limit of a 4th-level cohort. Next level (7th), the maximum cohort level goes up by one, and Chikka's equivalent level automatically goes up by one (to 4th-level). The level after that, while the max cohort level goes up by one, Chikka's equivalent level does not (as half of 7, rounded up, is the same as half of 8). Could Chikka gain a level of rogue, or maybe ranger, to continue to be effective as a cohort? Or is this simply not possible?
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