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<blockquote data-quote="Ranes" data-source="post: 6714440" data-attributes="member: 4826">Well, it may not be a big deal but the DMG explicitly states that the table in which the air elemental improved familiar appears is one based on familiars assigned by type or sub-type. If your player's PC has the aquatic sub-type, his choice of familiar is not by the book. Having said that, I don't think it's a huge issue, actually, especially as a small water elemental and a small air elemental are considered equivalently powerful.Depending on the nature of the PC's race (whether it lives on the seas, by the sea or under the sea, for example), it might be so closely associated with the air (storm winds and weather in general) that an air-based familiar is actually quite easy to justify. I wouldn't be inclined to think so if his species spent more than half their lives beneath the water's surface.In other words, I think that how it's justified is a bigger deal than whether it's by the book or not, at least in this case.He's already got the familiar, right? The DM's made the call. But, if you're just keeping tabs on his tendency to fold, spindle and mutilate the rules to his advantage, well, from what you've told us in the past, I don't blame you for that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranes, post: 6714440, member: 4826"] Well, it may not be a big deal but the DMG explicitly states that the table in which the air elemental improved familiar appears is one based on familiars assigned by type or sub-type. If your player's PC has the aquatic sub-type, his choice of familiar is not by the book. Having said that, I don't think it's a huge issue, actually, especially as a small water elemental and a small air elemental are considered equivalently powerful. Depending on the nature of the PC's race (whether it lives on the seas, by the sea or under the sea, for example), it might be so closely associated with the air (storm winds and weather in general) that an air-based familiar is actually quite easy to justify. I wouldn't be inclined to think so if his species spent more than half their lives beneath the water's surface. In other words, I think that how it's justified is a bigger deal than whether it's by the book or not, at least in this case. He's already got the familiar, right? The DM's made the call. But, if you're just keeping tabs on his tendency to fold, spindle and mutilate the rules to his advantage, well, from what you've told us in the past, I don't blame you for that. [/QUOTE]

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