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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lingual" data-source="post: 8469250" data-attributes="member: 6983889">A first level spell (Find Familiar) is not meant to grant auto-advantage with no repurcussions.  It would be a very OP spell then.  As a player, I would expect an enemy to eventually target my familiar if it was constantly inhibiting his or her combat defenses.  Any sane enemy would.Smart enemies like some dragon or enemy bladesinger, arcane trickster could very well target the familiar first because they would know of this tactic and know that killing the familiar would be the most effective thing to do.  A smart player would do the same.  So a smart monster would too.   The fact that most players would NOT want their advantage-granting pet targeted makes it a smart move.   A dumb ogre would probably catch on after getting thwacked a few times.</blockquote>