The oft forgotten familiar

[Aust Diamondew]

I once had a player who had a character only 1 level of wizard, the rest of his levels were in barbarian and fighter, who had a hawk familiar. It had a lot of hit points and a really high BAB, wasn't terribly useful, he mostly kept it around for show but by the time he was in high level his familiar could have single handedly wiped out a small village and had killed a mid level NPC.

 

[Darmanicus]

PAO a pseudodragon into a true dragon.

Now that would be nice.....if I had a pseudodragon.

Must work on that improved familiar feat.

 

[Satori]

Hexblade

Mounted Combat, Spirited Charge, Ride By Attack

Improved Familiar, Practiced Caster

Winter Worg Familiar/Mount

Win

 

[Darmanicus]

The utility of familiars (and other animal sidekicks) is directly proportionate to your DM's attitude towards them.

For instance, the last 3 times I played PCs with animal sidekicks, the DMs killed them. They weren't attacking- one was scouting, one was off on its own, and the last one was consumed in an area-effect attack delivered by suprise.

Thus, I don't play PCs with animal sidekicks with those DMs anymore.

Agreed, for some reason my DM doesn't like familiars much however every other type of creature side-kick is ok.

So far I've been able to use the raven for a fair bit of stuff seeing as it can actually speak common, (using it as a messenger between us and a besieged fort comes into mind), as well as delivering the odd touch buffs to party members.

 

[Darmanicus]

PAO a pseudodragon into a true dragon.

Just looking at things, PAO Raven into Pseudodragon should work for starters then PAO it into true dragon WOOT!!!

Sorry I should elaborate.....

Same kingdom +5
Same size +2
Same or lower Int +2

+9 = permanent change

Well that's for the 1st change anyways.