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<blockquote data-quote="Corlon" data-source="post: 359285" data-attributes="member: 6905">hmmyou could also keep the familiar table the same way, but if the wizard must be alive for the familiar to get his abilities (this keeps the person from becoming a familiar and then killing the wizard).&nbsp; You could make it so that NPC or PC familiars (like all people) don't like being controlled, making them still pretty independent, or mad if the wizard tries to use control familiar.&nbsp; An NPC familiar could make the DM cause a couple humanlike (or elflike... whatever) problems between the familiar and the wizard, and if it's a PC familiar, he will have the restrictions the wizard gives him, or he can suffer the consequences of being controlled, or he can kill his master.&nbsp; Another way to balance would be that if the wizard dies, not only the familiar lose his abilities, but he takes the same EXP damage that the wizard would take if his familiar died.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corlon, post: 359285, member: 6905"] [b]hmm[/b] you could also keep the familiar table the same way, but if the wizard must be alive for the familiar to get his abilities (this keeps the person from becoming a familiar and then killing the wizard). You could make it so that NPC or PC familiars (like all people) don't like being controlled, making them still pretty independent, or mad if the wizard tries to use control familiar. An NPC familiar could make the DM cause a couple humanlike (or elflike... whatever) problems between the familiar and the wizard, and if it's a PC familiar, he will have the restrictions the wizard gives him, or he can suffer the consequences of being controlled, or he can kill his master. Another way to balance would be that if the wizard dies, not only the familiar lose his abilities, but he takes the same EXP damage that the wizard would take if his familiar died. [/QUOTE]

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