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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6896532" data-attributes="member: 12731">Allowing a familiar to take the help action is okay. Sure it's overpowered - on the offensive. But since the counter is quite trivial - hit the familiar and it will die easily - it is, as I said, okay.What the Sage needs to Advice on is invisibile familiars. Getting disadvantage on attacks against you normally require the Dodge action, which can't be combined with the Help action. I would like a ruling that says, for your distraction to be significant enough to count as the Help action (with its sizeable benefit), you need to actually provide a distraction. You (the familiar in this example) need to choose between either:a) making enough noise or turning off your invisibility to not protect you, in order to be sufficiently distracting to provide the Help benefitb) hanging around invisible and silently, granting you the full benefits of invisibility, but then not providing any tangible Help benefit either.It should not be possible to use a Warlock familiar in a way that grants people advantage on attacks while at the same time having attacks on the familiar be at disadvantage (or worse, assuming the familiar can fly around freely).To gain the Help benefit you must expose yourself to risk. No risk, no benefit. (Unless you've got more things going, such as additional spells, of course)</blockquote>