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<blockquote data-quote="Caliban" data-source="post: 7035302" data-attributes="member: 284">I'd say the difference between a familiar gained with the Find Familiar spell and one gained by encountering it and getting it to serve you as a familiar is that the one gained via a spell is a spirit that takes a fleshy form, while the one that chooses to serve you isn't a spirit but an actual example of that creature.&nbsp; This is significant because if your spirit familiar dies you can just summon it again.&nbsp; If the non-spirit familiar dies, that's it.&nbsp;&nbsp; You didn't get it via the spell so you can't summon it via the spell.&nbsp;&nbsp; That being said, I'd probably allow an Improved Familiar feat that lets you upgrade your familiar spirit into one of the advance forms.&nbsp; Just like evolving a Pokemon.&nbsp; &nbsp; You still don't have the Pact of the Chain invocation for the familiar, and you are now down a feat so I don't think it will step on their toes too much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Caliban, post: 7035302, member: 284"] I'd say the difference between a familiar gained with the Find Familiar spell and one gained by encountering it and getting it to serve you as a familiar is that the one gained via a spell is a spirit that takes a fleshy form, while the one that chooses to serve you isn't a spirit but an actual example of that creature. This is significant because if your spirit familiar dies you can just summon it again. If the non-spirit familiar dies, that's it. You didn't get it via the spell so you can't summon it via the spell. That being said, I'd probably allow an Improved Familiar feat that lets you upgrade your familiar spirit into one of the advance forms. Just like evolving a Pokemon. You still don't have the Pact of the Chain invocation for the familiar, and you are now down a feat so I don't think it will step on their toes too much. [/QUOTE]

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