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<blockquote data-quote="Gardens &amp;amp; Goblins" data-source="post: 7035910" data-attributes="member: 6846794">Drones are awesome (Both impressive and terrifying). Familiars are akin to drones. Find familiar gets your an 'ok' drone. Eyes on target, basic movement options. Limited combat options.Pact of the Chain gets you a better drone. Opposable thumbs! A brain upgrade, and some nifty spell-like abilities/features.Pact of the Chain and VotCM gets you the best drone. Best range with sense sharing at any distance. Voice QoL. [sblock]A far ranging little monster that can flit/clamber through a window, deposit a vial of poison into the sleeping Prince's open mouth. That can steal the royal ring from his lifeless body. That can turn the key to lock the door and use the candle to set fire to the curtains. And then be dismissed, into a pocket dimension, a resummoned to your side, on the other side of town (or, heck, the planet). (Where I assume the character has something dastardly planned..)[/sblock]Let the PoC lock have their special sauce. Imp.Familiar, should it have to exist, for the cost of a feat, could simply provide a skill boost &amp; reduced summoning + cost, for the caster that insists on throwing their familiar near enemies.Come to think of it - all of the PotC lock's familiars are humanoid in shape. Feet, hands, fingers.. Do magical items still resize themselves to fit folks? If so, there's a few rings and belts that, assuming they can be pried out of the cold dead hands of the other/rival party members, could come in useful..</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gardens & Goblins, post: 7035910, member: 6846794"] Drones are awesome [I](Both impressive and terrifying).[/I] Familiars are akin to drones. Find familiar gets your an 'ok' drone. Eyes on target, basic movement options. Limited combat options. Pact of the Chain gets you a better drone. Opposable thumbs! A brain upgrade, and some nifty spell-like abilities/features. Pact of the Chain and VotCM gets you the best drone. Best range with sense sharing at any distance. Voice QoL. [sblock]A far ranging little monster that can flit/clamber through a window, deposit a vial of poison into the sleeping Prince's open mouth. That can steal the royal ring from his lifeless body. That can turn the key to lock the door and use the candle to set fire to the curtains. And then be dismissed, into a pocket dimension, a resummoned to your side, on the other side of town (or, heck, the planet). [I](Where I assume the character has something dastardly planned..)[/I][/sblock] Let the PoC lock have their special sauce. Imp.Familiar, should it have to exist, for the cost of a feat, could simply provide a skill boost & reduced summoning + cost, for the caster that insists on throwing their familiar near enemies. [SIZE=2][I]Come to think of it - all of the PotC lock's familiars are humanoid in shape. Feet, hands, fingers.. Do magical items still resize themselves to fit folks? If so, there's a few rings and belts that, assuming they can be pried out of the cold dead hands of the other/rival party members, could come in useful..[/I][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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