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<blockquote data-quote="QuietBrowser" data-source="post: 7036289" data-attributes="member: 6855057">Find Familiar. We all remember this spell, or class feature, from previous editions. There's another thread up now arguing about whether or not the Pact of the Chain Warlock is supposed to exclusively benefit from Quasit/Pseudodragon/Imp familiars or if the sidebards from the MM and VGTM&nbsp; stating that &quot;any spellcaster who can cast Find Familiar can have a Tiny monster as a familiar&quot; applies to PC spellcasters as well as NPC ones.That's not what this thread is about.Instead, this thread is looking back to 3.5 and Pathfinder. For those of you who missed those editions or don't remember, there was a feat called Improved Familiar, which allowed a caster to swap out their original familiar (which was a small animal that gave some minor bonus, usually +2 to a set of skill checks or a bonus feat) for something more powerful, depending on the caster's level and alignment.This was an interesting idea and it's one I'd like to discuss and see if it could be made to work in 5e.I don't really have any mechanical justifications for it, just that I think this idea sounds cool and would be a great bit of fluff for a magely character, where their familiar changes and grows more powerful alongside its master.So, do you think 5e could mechanically handle Improved Familiar as a feat? How would make it work? Do you need to see the original writeup for it in 3e and PF to have an opinion? Let me know in the comments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuietBrowser, post: 7036289, member: 6855057"] Find Familiar. We all remember this spell, or class feature, from previous editions. There's another thread up now arguing about whether or not the Pact of the Chain Warlock is supposed to exclusively benefit from Quasit/Pseudodragon/Imp familiars or if the sidebards from the MM and VGTM stating that "any spellcaster who can cast Find Familiar can have a Tiny monster as a familiar" applies to PC spellcasters as well as NPC ones. That's not what this thread is about. Instead, this thread is looking back to 3.5 and Pathfinder. For those of you who missed those editions or don't remember, there was a feat called Improved Familiar, which allowed a caster to swap out their original familiar (which was a small animal that gave some minor bonus, usually +2 to a set of skill checks or a bonus feat) for something more powerful, depending on the caster's level and alignment. This was an interesting idea and it's one I'd like to discuss and see if it could be made to work in 5e. I don't really have any mechanical justifications for it, just that I think this idea sounds cool and would be a great bit of fluff for a magely character, where their familiar changes and grows more powerful alongside its master. So, do you think 5e could mechanically handle Improved Familiar as a feat? How would make it work? Do you need to see the original writeup for it in 3e and PF to have an opinion? Let me know in the comments. [/QUOTE]

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