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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nebrok" data-source="post: 5165641" data-attributes="member: 30362">[FONT=&quot]Ok, this came up during the game I am running... and it turned into a mild heated debate.  So here it is...What happens to a familiar AFTER the wizard's/sorcerer's death?The player who brought up this question had just got his wizard killed, and he wanted to play his familiar until the others raised his character.  That's when the question of weather a familiar retains its intelligence after it's master’s death.  I was leaning toward no.  I reasoned that the wizard is the source of the magic that makes the familiar different from other animals, and once the wizard is gone that bond and link is broken.  But he argued that if a familiar who dies and then is raised at a later time still has its link, then why not the other way around.  That make sense but I still reasoned that the wizard is the sustaining force in the link.  Someone had suggested that the process of making a familiar is permanent, and that the familiar remains as it was at the point what the wizard died.I like to be a fair DM, and usually if a player can reason something that sound plausible to me I allow it (generally).  I ruled that the familiar retained its unique nature, intelligence and what not, until the wizard was brought back.  But still, I was wondering what others would think.  So I pose the question one more time.What happens to a familiar AFTER the wizard's/sorcerer's death?[/FONT]</blockquote>

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