Need a Substitution for Familiar
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freyar
Extradimensional Explorer
How about arcane bond with a bonded object from Pathfinder if you can get your DM to go for it? Still sunderable, I guess, but probably a little less vulnerable than a critter. The rules are right here.
Shin Okada
Explorer
Another option is to make your familiar actually tougher and stronger.
Improved Familiar feat was already pointed out.
You can find Guardian Familiars in Complete Warrior.
Dragon Familiar feat is in Draconomicon.
If you take Bonded Summoner prestige class (Miniatures Handbook), your familiar is replaced by an elemental.
There will be more, I guess.
Improved Familiar feat was already pointed out.
You can find Guardian Familiars in Complete Warrior.
Dragon Familiar feat is in Draconomicon.
If you take Bonded Summoner prestige class (Miniatures Handbook), your familiar is replaced by an elemental.
There will be more, I guess.
FoxWander
Adventurer
Along those lines is an option I forgot- the WotC online spellbook archive. It's a compilation of their spellbook articles that ran when 3rd edition first came out. It'd be up to you to convince your DM these spells aren't broken (as some of them completely bypass the improved familiar feat) but if you can do that you have the option of making your familiar undead (animate dead familiar) or changing it into a tiny elemental (elemental familiar). Or, if you have a patron deity and can somehow manage that casting of a divine spell by your wizard/sorcerer, you can give it a planar template (celestial. fiendish, axiomatic or anarchic) using your character's level as its hit dice to determine what special qualities it gains with template (planar familiar).
You might want to point out that each of these has an XP cost in your "not broken" argument- although it's only 500 XP, so good luck with that.
But at least they were published by Wizards and so unarguably intended for use in the game. Good luck.
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