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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 3043673" data-attributes="member: 9037">The way he handles totems in Shadowrun is that is really does not make an apperence until the shaman builds a lodge and does the rituals to attune to his totem. Up until then he can call himself what ever kind of shaman he wants.  The player gets to pick his own totem the same way a hermatic mage can choose a discipline to follow. I am sure that if he felt that the totem was not the right one because the way the player had been playing he would sit down and talk to the player about it.I would not mind role playing out getting the familiar. I don't just expect it to appear. The player playing the druid got to pick a wolf and bring it in at creation the same with the psion and his crystal. So I had no reason to to suspect that it would be different for me.In other circumstances I would not mind seeing what kind of familiar I got randomly if I had not had such a well defined idea of what I wanted to do with this character and her familiar.I would not even mind if I knew about it a head of time trying to play a sorcerer with random spells it might be fun. What I can't understand in this case is just making it harder for me to develop the character I want to play. It is not like it is a broken over powered character. And as for the familiar well if I was DMing and a player had their heart set on a certain type familiar that did not break the rules or the setting of the game then I would just let them have it. There is nothing in the rules that don't support the player choosing their own.Even if the rules said you had to roll I would let the player have it anyway because it is a game and we are supposed to be having fun. And having a cat familiar as opposed to a toad does not really have that big of an impact on the balance of the game.I think I have a really cool character that I am trying to play I am making a lot of role play choices for it and I just don't get why the DM who is usually all about role play is making me jump through hoops.The game is tomorrow and he has not answered my email so I have made two character sheets one with the level of sorcerer and one leveling in ranger.I don't intend to fight or delay the game if his mind is made up then I will accept it and move on.</blockquote>

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