The stitched flesh familiar

[Strahd]

First off i would like to thank anyone who helps me with this problem.....Thanks. In issue #312of Dragon Magazine a variant of the wizard was introduced called the "fleshcrafter" . The fleshcrafter has the ability to make a construct familiar called a "stitched flesh familiar". The stiched flesh familiar requires 3 medium sized corpses to make and is medium sized when done and has all the standard abilities of a familiar plus a few more. My problem is that it does not say what the familiars starting stats are , or it it can use weapons/armor. I think it was meant to look roughly human (frankenstiens monsterish probably), but it does not give much info on it so i am not sure At higher levels of experience its intelligence is quite high so can it speak? I am temped to say it has ability scores of 10 except for constitution which would be zero and intelligence as stated, no proficiency with weapons or armor, and would be able to speak once its intelligence was high enough(one language it master knows) . Please help me with this if you can .

 

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The stiched flesh familiar requires 3 medium sized corpses to make and is medium sized when done and has all the standard abilities of a familiar plus a few more. My problem is that it does not say what the familiars starting stats are , or it it can use weapons/armor.

You're basically creating a construct. Start with what the construct is supposed to resemble. Is it a bat construct? Wolf? Human? Take the base stats from that. Adjust stats as appropriate for a construct (e.g., no Con score). Apply appropriate Int score as indicated in PH, which is 6 at 1st level. I would really suggest that you retain the general limitations for familiars that sorcerors and wizards have. Even though yours will be a construct it should be a construct of an animal of some kind.

At higher levels of experience its intelligence is quite high so can it speak?

It has the same communication limitations/abilities as any other normal familiar does. It starts off only able to communicate as described in the Empathic Link ability and only later does it gain the ability of actual speech through the Speak with Master ability - and even then only the master will understand it. Short of feats or spells or something, that will be the LIMIT of its speech abilities.