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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Driddle" data-source="post: 3121196" data-attributes="member: 3447">AND the individual's playing style. it's not as though a familiar is really all that hardy, after all. A player who keeps blatantly sending his critter into dangerous situations and is surprised when the DM tosses a few hit points of damage his way shouldn't be playing with a familiar.On the other hand, you can't expect a written invitation from the DM for your familiar to "participate" in any particular scenario. The player has to proactively find a comfortable middle ground of activities for the familiar so that the DM starts to think of it as a member of the party (or at least a half-member).I'll take the familiar any day. When you've got downtown and nothing better to do, you play with the familiar. When you've looked a room over and can't find anything, you have a familar to check out the nooks and crannies. If you're not sure about what's down the hall, you send the familiar ahead to scout around the corner. You can have your familiar pick a favorite party member to always poop in his backpack. Your familiar can have a crush on someone else. Your familiar can bring back odd little gifts from his personal explorations. The familiar's actions can even send the adventure in an unforeseen direction ... IF the DM is made to see the animal as an tiny asset for storytelling possibilities instead of merely a game mechanic.</blockquote>