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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 2147662" data-attributes="member: 478">I like familiars, especially raven familiars. Yes, of course, their effectiveness can be replicated, but that would cost resources, which otherwise you can use for different tasks. The familiar is basically free, and there are quite a few nice ways to make good use of one, mainly as a scout or messanger. Why waste an Invisibility spell, if the familiar can scout ahead for free?I do not go out of my way to protect the familiar, tho I do not send it into tight situations and only rarely if ever make use of its powers in combat. On the flip side, the DM also does not go out of his way to kill it, which would be a pointless metagaming exercise in most cases (unless, of course, the familiar is actively used to harrass opponents, then it's fair to target them, but wasting attacks on a familiar just to annoy the caster would be idiocy - area effects are a different matter, but that's what Improved Evasion is for and a flying familiar can usually stay out of harms way pretty easily).Of course, one can live without a familiar, but doing so reduces your options. It's like never using a spell slot, just because you don't *really* need it. You can do it that way, but there is very little reason to do so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />ByeThanee</blockquote>

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