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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5629219" data-attributes="member: 9037">We had a wizard name his celestial badger familiar Buttercup. This badger was one of the most rudest obnoxious familiars I had ever met. But the wizard doted on him and would talk to him in baby talk. It worked because the character was an eccentric fruit cake.On the whole though I don't go for cutesy names for animal companions or familiars. Mittens for a lion would bug the crap out of me. It seems disrespectful to the animal. These animals are more than pets, familiars are intelligent and animal companions are not tame. So I would question why a player felt it necessary to mock the whole thing. I remember a whiny moment in my game. The husband of a another player called me up all upset because in the last session his wife had failed a will save and was paralyzed with fear for three rounds. He thought it was unfair to her because the session before she didn't get to do anything either.She rolled a 1 on the save an automatic failure. He thought I should bend the rules. The reason his wife didn't do anything the session before was because she decided her character would not accompany the rest of the party to the tavern and decided to stay in her quarters sewing.</blockquote>