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Message: <blockquote data-quote="strawberryJAMM" data-source="post: 1008794" data-attributes="member: 8588">Yowza!  This book is definitely going on my wish list!  There was some useful advice in Tome and Blood on familiars but it definitely didn't go far enough.  I especially like the sound of the different "paths" and also the "unbound" options - In the campaign I run, there is one Rog3/Wiz1 planning to start increasing Wizard levels who has a Familiar, and one Rog3/Sor1 who has already said he's not interested in getting a familiar, even though he plans to increase his Sorcerer levels, under the argument that it is "really more of a liability if you multiclass into spellcasting Prestige Classes" because they don't, generally, count towards improving a familiar's levels.  I've also got a Rgr1/Sor3 of my own in another campaign with a Viper familiar which could possibly benefit from this book too.  Familiars are so easy to overlook or just plain forget - I can't tell you how many times we're halfway through a battle (or even just finished one) when I've suddenly remembered the wizard's familiar (a female monkey) and had to ask "What's she doing?"  At least now that I've started using Initiative cards and have included one for the familiar we no longer forget her during combat - I place her right after her master in the initial initiative sequence.  We do still forget about her ocationally during non-combat situations, but we're working on that. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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