D&D 5E Find Familiar: See through familiars eyes only when the familiar is within 100 feet?

[ShadowSeeker]

Is the ability to see through your familiar's eyes using the find familiar spell only possible when the familiar is within 100 ft?

 

[ExploderWizard]

Is the ability to see through your familiar's eyes using the find familiar spell only possible when the familiar is within 100 ft?

Yes. The telepathic communication, senses, and the ability to deliver touch attacks with your familiar all only apply if it is within 100 feet of you, according to the description of the spell.

 

[ShadowSeeker]

The 100 ft. are explicitly mentioned with the telepathic link and the touch attack. They are not mentioned for the senses.

I'm asking as I wanted to use a familiar as a flying scout. But with 100 ft. distance, this would not be very useful.

 

[Azurewraith]

The 100 ft. are explicitly mentioned with the telepathic link and the touch attack. They are not mentioned for the senses.

I'm asking as I wanted to use a familiar as a flying scout. But with 100 ft. distance, this would not be very useful.

100ft is still going to make a pretty useful advanced flying scout as well it can see 100ft all around you which is going to stop anything sneaking up on you or getting away unless your in a forest but then any flying will be pretty lackluster.

EDIT: Nothing is stopping your familiar flying 200ft away and coming back with he news i think?

 

[DEFCON 1]

The 100 ft. are explicitly mentioned with the telepathic link and the touch attack. They are not mentioned for the senses.

I'm asking as I wanted to use a familiar as a flying scout. But with 100 ft. distance, this would not be very useful.

If this is the case... I'd say a legitimate argument could be made that you could still see through your familiar's eyes past the 100 foot mark... you just wouldn't be able to communicate with it to tell it where it should go, when to come back, tell it when you see enemies to not get so close, etc. You give it simple instructions telepathically as it begins its flight on what it should do... and just hope those instructions are clear enough that once it gets past 100 feet and you lose communication, that it can follow what you told it and make its own decisions.

Then once it comes back within 100 feet you can then telepathically berate it for not doing exactly what you wanted it to do, and it was a bad bird, and it's going to be punished once it gets back to the tower, and naughty naughty naughty!

 

[ShadowSeeker]

If this is the case... I'd say a legitimate argument could be made that you could still see through your familiar's eyes past the 100 foot mark... you just wouldn't be able to communicate with it to tell it where it should go, when to come back, tell it when you see enemies to not get so close, etc. You give it simple instructions telepathically as it begins its flight on what it should do... and just hope those instructions are clear enough that once it gets past 100 feet and you lose communication, that it can follow what you told it and make its own decisions.

Then once it comes back within 100 feet you can then telepathically berate it for not doing exactly what you wanted it to do, and it was a bad bird, and it's going to be punished once it gets back to the tower, and naughty naughty naughty!

I would be more useful that way. Then I could tell the familiar to make some turns over an enemy camp for example and look through its eyes.

Communication is the biggest problem as the spell doesn't raise Int, which it should in my opinion. So what is my owl able to tell me? Would it be possible to tell the owl to guard an area against creatures, against orcs, aganist soldiers of a specific faction?

 

[green_destiny]

Just a question that i think is relatwd. So if the master can see thru its familiar. So say in a dark cave, if the master does not have any dark vision but its familiar has, the master can use its familiar's sight to see in the cave right?

Can the master still do so in a combat situation, to fight enemies in the dark? Its possible he'll see thru his familiar, like if the familiar is sitting on his shoulders but he will be seeing it from his familiar's point of view?

I imagine it will a bit like fighting in a first person shooter point of view. so will it still be possible?

 

[ExploderWizard]

Just a question that i think is relatwd. So if the master can see thru its familiar. So say in a dark cave, if the master does not have any dark vision but its familiar has, the master can use its familiar's sight to see in the cave right?

Can the master still do so in a combat situation, to fight enemies in the dark? Its possible he'll see thru his familiar, like if the familiar is sitting on his shoulders but he will be seeing it from his familiar's point of view?

I imagine it will a bit like fighting in a first person shooter point of view. so will it still be possible?

Remember that when connected to a familiar and using its senses, that the caster is actually deaf and blind with regard to his/her own senses during that time.

 

[Terrephilo]

Just a question that i think is relatwd. So if the master can see thru its familiar. So say in a dark cave, if the master does not have any dark vision but its familiar has, the master can use its familiar's sight to see in the cave right?

Can the master still do so in a combat situation, to fight enemies in the dark? Its possible he'll see thru his familiar, like if the familiar is sitting on his shoulders but he will be seeing it from his familiar's point of view?

I imagine it will a bit like fighting in a first person shooter point of view. so will it still be possible?

Since you need to use your action to do so, it would defeat the purpose of the idea. Yes, you can do it, but you need to use your action every turn to keep the benefits of the spell.

 

[Gardens & Goblins]

Remember - the more perks you give/more wiggle room allowed for the 'normal' familiars, the less the Pact of the Chain's familiar shines.

Heck, one of facet of their entire shtick is unlimited (practically) range contact/scouting with their familiar - and that takes an investment above and beyond selecting the base Pact of the Chain path.