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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Devilkiller" data-source="post: 937054" data-attributes="member: 12360">WotC Sensed My Guilt!I'll admit that my sorcerer has a toad familiar. The DM laughed when I took it and said that I was just doing it for the extra hit points. I said that there were stylistic reasons too and struggled to come up with them. I even created a 2nd level spell called Psychedelic Venom to represent the hallucinogenic "toad licking" experience.Now it seems I'll just be stuck with a familiar who has a move of 5 and no attacks. It kind of feels like I'm being punished rather than just nerfed, but I suppose maybe I deserve it? Of course I could take Polymorph and use it to give the toad a more useful form from time to time, but now that the duration will only be 1 minute per level that won't be so useful.Oh well, I'd just shut up and take my medicine "like a man", but the cohort I just gained is a level lower because of the -2 to Leadership for having a familiar and my familiar is now semi-useless. That sort of hurts!The toad, in all his useless glory, is too ingrained in the character's story now to even consider swapping him out, but does anybody have any ideas on how to make him even marginally useful to a party that already has a bat familiar in it for scouting?</blockquote>