Astalanya
First Post
I was hoping a few people out there might be able to help adjudicate something of a sticky rules situation. I'm not sure how to approach this, and what might be acceptable, so feedback is more than welcome.
A character in my campaign, a wizard, wishes to take a familiar from an actual player race rather than an animal, elemental, or what have you. We use the standard D&D rules, modified by the campaign setting book we play in. The wizard is currently caster level 9, CR 10 with race considered. She comes from a people that look upon other races as the world as lesser, so it fits with her ethos that she wouldn't seek an animal as a handmaid or servitor but rather something mortal.
The character has the Leadership feat, and is willing to research a spell with a fairly heavy XP cost to see this happen. It's more for the permanent bond and other minor benefits that she wants to use another character as her familiar, rather than for the stat increases.
The other character she would be interested in making her familiar is roughly half her level, or will be in the next few sessions. He would continue to advance normally as per the D&D rules, and we would rather not use this as a template if possible. Templates tend to be very much restricted in this game.
So, is this a possibility combining all the elements of Leadership? Are there other spells (up to 5th level) that might permit a familiar bond to be established? They already considered Polymorph and Shape of the Beasts (DLCS: Towers of High Sorcery book), but the problem comes in that a familiar must be an unaugmented animal as written and SotB would turn the character into an animal with an augmented type.
If a spell were to be developed, how would you stat it?
A character in my campaign, a wizard, wishes to take a familiar from an actual player race rather than an animal, elemental, or what have you. We use the standard D&D rules, modified by the campaign setting book we play in. The wizard is currently caster level 9, CR 10 with race considered. She comes from a people that look upon other races as the world as lesser, so it fits with her ethos that she wouldn't seek an animal as a handmaid or servitor but rather something mortal.
The character has the Leadership feat, and is willing to research a spell with a fairly heavy XP cost to see this happen. It's more for the permanent bond and other minor benefits that she wants to use another character as her familiar, rather than for the stat increases.
The other character she would be interested in making her familiar is roughly half her level, or will be in the next few sessions. He would continue to advance normally as per the D&D rules, and we would rather not use this as a template if possible. Templates tend to be very much restricted in this game.
So, is this a possibility combining all the elements of Leadership? Are there other spells (up to 5th level) that might permit a familiar bond to be established? They already considered Polymorph and Shape of the Beasts (DLCS: Towers of High Sorcery book), but the problem comes in that a familiar must be an unaugmented animal as written and SotB would turn the character into an animal with an augmented type.
If a spell were to be developed, how would you stat it?
