Would a familiar still be bound to a clone

[just__al]

<3.0>

Just had one of bad guys killed by the party. He had a clone so he's alive and while the party has his original body, they don't have the familiar.

So is the familiar still bound to the sorceror including all the benefits for the sorceror?

 

[green slime]

I'd say yes, because if it happened to a player, they'd be more than a little peeved that they had lost their long faithful side kick.

 

[Li Shenron]

I have never seen the Clone spell in use, but IIRC when the "original" dies, his soul goes into the clone which is then the same person as before but in a new body - I don't remember which are the penatlies for the change (level loss or anything).

If that's what the spell does, I'd definitely allow the new character to keep the familiar.

 

[HeavyG]

Or, you could "share" the clone spell with your familiar so that it creates a body for you and one for your familiar.

 

[Tewligan]

I'd say he keeps the familiar benefits, since his soul transfers to the new body in 3.0/3.5. Now, if it was 1st edition-style Clone, which basically created an identical but separate creature, then no.

 

[the Jester]

"The wizard" is the wizard's soul, so I'd say he keeps it.

Pardon me, sorcerer I mean.