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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 5040649" data-attributes="member: 508">We had an elf sorceress with a toad familiar in our first 3E campaign.  She had crafted a little potion harness for the toad, and it carried around two potions of cure light wounds.  It was trained to pop the cork on a potion and pour it in her mouth if she ever fell in combat, and it saved her life more than once.  It also saved the life of a different player's PC (a cleric), who was a bit dismayed that he "owed his life to the damn toad."In our current campaign, we had a human sorcerer PC with a toad familiar.  He was a failed experiment (Can I turn a sorcerer into a greatsword-wielding front-line fighter if I choose the right spells? -- Answer: yes, a particularly sucky one with low hit points and none of the extra feats a fighter of your level would have) who took a toad familiar just because he desperately needed the extra 3 hp.  After having been discarded as a PC, I, as DM, took him over as a traitorous NPC (he freed a famous tiefling thief the PCs had captured and she took him on as an apprentice thief).  Adding some rogue levels helped him as a character, and he even "upgraded" his toad familiar into a pigeontoad (by adding pigeon wings in a magical crossbreeding procedure).  Didn't help either one last any longer once the PCs eventually caught up with them, though.Johnathan</blockquote>