so My LFR judge/DM just threatened to quite...

Ok, so I play LFR. I have a game that runs once a month. I am aswordmage who multied into wizard and is going to paragon multi...I also play the same character at diffrent levels on delve night...

SO I showed up at the delve today, and told the DM I had taken the familar feat, and my familar was the bear OSO... see shelly article this month just compiled

so he wasn't a fan of hers, so he didn't see the artcle, but said fine dragon is legal...then he saw what it could do. He blew up. He told me I will never have that in HIS LFR...he went so far as to threaten to not run anymore just becuse of the sillyness of it... I told him I only wanted it for the pact bear part and he said it was way too over board...

Now I ofcource backed down, and I am sure we will all have a good laugh at this someday, but technicly if I show up to Gencon with Oso in tow the Judge has to except it right???

[sblock=oso]Oso the Circus BearFamilairOso keeps the patter steady as he runs through the air on the orb he uses as a magic circus ball. If he decides he doesn't like you, he rolls up to you, does a little song and dance and tips his fez. But beware! The fez is mightier than the sword! Ouch!
Speed 4, fly 6 (hover)Constant BenefitsGrrrrrr: You gain a +2 bonus on Intimidate checks.Active BenefitsHis Own Bear: Oso can speak any language you know, and can converse with other creatures. Unlike mere familiars, you can't hear everything Oso hears and says unless Oso lets you, and you would never be able to tell Oso what to say.
Pact Bear: As a minor action when Oso is in active mode, you can place a curse on one target in a square adjacent to Oso. Until the end of the encounter, your attacks deal an extra 1d6 damage to that target, exactly as the warlock's curse ability on page 131 of the Players' Handbook. At 11th level, you deal an extra 2d6 damage to a cursed target, and at 21st level, you deal an extra 3d6 damage.
Verrrry Dangerous: Oso deals 1d10 damage to anyone who attacks him and misses. At 11th level, he deals 2d10 damage, and at 21st level, he deals 3d10 damage.
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Now I ofcource backed down, and I am sure we will all have a good laugh at this someday, but technicly if I show up to Gencon with Oso in tow the Judge has to except it right???

I suspect Oso was never intended for RPGA play. He seems verrry powerful!


The test will be if Oso shows up in the character builder. If so, he's legal for RPGA play. If not, he isn't.
 

It's an illegal familiar. Heck, check Shelly's bio at the bottom of the article. You must know that it's way too powerful to be legit, right?
 

While it does sound like the judge overreacted a little, I don't believe that Confessions constitutes an "official" article (with regard to LFR).

According to the article, the admitted overpoweredness of that particular familiar was intentionally being balanced by certain in-game repercussions (at some point it'll go berserk or some such, though only the DM of that game knows what will trigger it). It doesn't sound to me like something an LFR judge could reasonably be responsible for enforcing such a thing, so it seems to me like Oso is unofficial. That, or he could let you keep it and then maul you at random intervals for any made-up reason he felt like. ;)
 


He doesn't have to accept it unless you do some leg work to see if it is legal. I would contact your region's triad and ask.

The intent of Shelly's articles are to provide a woman's insight to the game of D&D. All of her material is from a home brewed game with a wacky twist. None of it could be described as the following:

Content appearing in
Dragon Magazine that is player resource-friendly (full racial write-ups, classes, paragon paths, epic destinies, powers, feats, magic items, rituals/formulas, and backgrounds) is available for access when the complete issue is available for download (typically at the end of the current month). Content from individual articles is not available for access upon the date of the article’s publication, as the complete issue may make final modifications to the rules in the article.

Just because its in a stat block doesn't mean its offical. And reading the article, the familar was made for a non-RPGA home game. If you looked at her "About the Author" it will give more insight on this: Shelly can't stop making illegal familiars and fancies herself the Pied Piper of the Shadowfell—minus the whole drowning rats and kidnapping thing.

If you want to continue to try to have Oso in your game you need to find out from WotC sources and EN World isn't the place.


Good luck.

 


Overreacted, check. Would I have permitted it, not without seeing the stat block first, and even then probably wouldn't permit it.

By the way, Delve night isn't LFR... it's RPGA. Slight difference in the rules for character creation there.
 


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