Familiars: Does EVERYONE take the toad?

[Jaws]

Vampire Toad

I almost never take a familiar the only time I did it was a monkey dressed up in a ninja costume with a toy sword stapped to its back.

A kindred spirit! Mine wears a pirate hat and a tiny cutlass.

I have a toad familiar for my witch (Warlock) character.
We joke around that he thinks he is a vampire. So he has the cape, miniature plastic teeth, and the plastic wig.
He is always trying to scare people and going "Blaa!" all the time.

Peace and smiles

j.

 

[Gnarlo]

Only familiars in my group have been 2 cats and a raven. And the two that took cats didn't bother with familiars at all until 2nd or 3rd level.

/gnarlo!

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

I've played a number of wizards and sorcerors:

Living Greyhawk: Currently Ftr 2/Wiz 7/Spellsword 2 familiar: Raven

High level home campaign: Sor 6/Candlecaster 4/Elemental Savant 4 Familiar: none (too much of a liability without SR)

low-level home campaign: Wiz 5/Wizard of High Sorcery familiar: Owl (died with the PC to a 70 point fireball trap--don't ask)

Living Arcanis: Sor 1 Familiar: toad.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Unfortunately (and surprisingly) the squirrel did not make the Top Ten list, but strangely enough kiwis did...

Really?

Huh.

-Hyp.

 

[Templetroll]

In the current campaign I played a human wizard with a rat familiar. The rat, with shared Mage Armor, saved his life by holding off three Dire Rats, killing one, until the party could get to his unconcious body.

That wizard and familiar died in a young dragon's breath.

My current character is a dwarf wizard with a toad familiar and now 22 Con. I regret nothing. Hit points mean he can stand the fights the rest of the party gets into and he can start taking action without having all his prot spells done first.

Is it munchkin? Yes. Am I happy and are the other players and DM entertained? Yes. When the dwarf was dieing, which has happened, others moved to help him out. If they were offended by the character, they would not do that.

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Not unless you cast Polymorph to turn your wizard into a troll and have the familiar share that spell and become a troll as well for some double rending action against low-AC foes. Now that would be munchkin ;D (I look forward to trying it myself. . . once and then filing it in the "don't ever try that with the same DM again or I'll have a dead familiar file").

Is it munchkin? Yes. Am I happy and are the other players and DM entertained? Yes. When the dwarf was dieing, which has happened, others moved to help him out. If they were offended by the character, they would not do that.

 

[Seule]

My wizard has a monkey. About 1.5 feet tall, fez, the whole bit. It gives him no mechanical benefit, but hey! I have a monkey! What could be cooler! And he wears a small fez, and lives inside my character's larger fez!

--Seule

 

[BVB]

There is a squirrel (and a chipmunk) in the EN Publishing familiar book.

Most exxxxxxcellent!
And where might we find a description of this lovely product in preparation for purchasing it?

 

[Buttercup]

In the games I've played in or DMed, I've seen a kestrel, hawks, various other raptors, a weasel, two capuchin monkeys, complete with little red caps, an electric eel, a cow, a cat and a toy poodle.

I think I like the monkeys best, because they throw turds.

 

[diaglo]

I think I like the monkeys best, because they throw turds.

well they're in the right edition.


i didn't say it, PKitty. she did.