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<blockquote data-quote="ColinChapman" data-source="post: 6407083" data-attributes="member: 6779742">One of the small things that irks me in 5e is the cop-out suggestion that a warlock of a Great Old One can take any of the suggested critters as a familiar because GOOs are inscrutable. It's one of the few things that really had me shaking my head.I mean, they could've created a miniature shoggoth, or a freakish bat-winged squid-thing, even an Eyeball beholderkin would've worked. Of course, the most appropriate GOO familiar would have been a human-faced rat-thing ala Brown Jenkins in HPL's Dreams in the Witch House, a freakish, tittering, vile thing capable of speaking and understanding any language. It'd also tie in nicely with Fritz Leiber's Slivikin, the rat-thing familiar of Hristimolo (possibly with the ability to communicate with/summon/control a swarm of rats). Such an obvious familiar to have offered.So, what are folks using as familiars for any GOO chain pact warlocks?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ColinChapman, post: 6407083, member: 6779742"] One of the small things that irks me in 5e is the cop-out suggestion that a warlock of a Great Old One can take any of the suggested critters as a familiar because GOOs are inscrutable. It's one of the few things that really had me shaking my head. I mean, they could've created a miniature shoggoth, or a freakish bat-winged squid-thing, even an Eyeball beholderkin would've worked. Of course, the most appropriate GOO familiar would have been a human-faced rat-thing ala Brown Jenkins in HPL's Dreams in the Witch House, a freakish, tittering, vile thing capable of speaking and understanding any language. It'd also tie in nicely with Fritz Leiber's Slivikin, the rat-thing familiar of Hristimolo (possibly with the ability to communicate with/summon/control a swarm of rats). Such an obvious familiar to have offered. So, what are folks using as familiars for any GOO chain pact warlocks? [/QUOTE]

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