Questions tagged [familiars]
For questions about familiars, smaller creatures in RPGs that serve to aid certain spellcasters. They typically lack the combat prowess of an animal companion, but aid a spellcaster in other ways.
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Can you cast message on a familiar/animal?
In my D&D campaign, there is an animal that has been tracking/following us. I suspect it to be a familiar of the big bad we may be fighting, but it has only watched us from a distance. If I cast ...
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Can a Shield Guardian have a familiar?
A shield guardian has the Spell Storing trait:
Spell Storing. A spellcaster who wears the shield guardian’s amulet can cause the guardian to store one spell of 4th level or lower. To do so, the ...
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Can a Familiar aid a Rogue's Sneak Attack?
A Rogue character with the Arcane Trickster archetype chooses Find Familiar as her non-enchantment, non-illusion, 1st level spell. How does that creature interact with the Sneak Attack feature?
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Can summons be verbally commanded with Voice of the Chain Master?
Summons like Summon Greater Demon and Conjure Elemental require a verbal command from the caster. Let's say the caster is elsewhere, but they have the Voice of the Chain Master invocation.
Can that be ...
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How does a Pseudodragon interact with Find Familiar?
The Find Familiar spells allows a magic user to summon a spirit which takes on an animal form to serve as a familiar. If it is defeated, it disappears, and can be resummoned by casting the spell again....
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If my kobold uses a familiar to deliver Shocking Grasp, do I roll with advantage thanks to Pack Tactics?
Suppose I'm playing a kobold sorcerer with find familiar by way of ritual caster or a dip into lore bard. It's a lovely overcast day and I decide that what I'd really like to do with my turn is to ...
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Transferring familiar - Statblock Issues
I'm trying to follow a long-established (in lore) tradition of master transferring his familiar to his student after taking the Improved Familiar feat. While flavor and care of treating familiar like ...
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Can a familiar use a Help action to grant advantage on an attack to a near by ally?
Can a familiar use a Help action to grant advantage on an Attack to a near by ally?
As I understand it, a familiar can aid in any action it can take itself. But by the spell Find Familiar, a normal ...
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How does cover interact with a Pact of the Chain Warlock with the Voice of the Chain Master Invocation?
I'm DMing for a group with a Pact of the Chain Genie Warlock in it, and he has Voice of the Chain Master. There was this one time when the party was investigating a nobleman's office and half of them ...
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Is there any way to work around Familiar Alignment restrictions?
Is there any way to work around Familiar Alignment restrictions?
Examples:
LE Wizard wanting to get Faerie Dragon as a Familiar.
CG Wizard wanting to get Ratling as a Familiar.
Is there any way to ...
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Is a familiar with the figment archetype still cursed, diseased, or poisoned after it dies then returns?
Do Figment Archetype Familiar with Lycanthropy retain Lycanthropy after returning from death?
Recurring Dream (Su): Pathfinder Ultimate Wilderness
A figment has a total number of hit points equal to ...
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What could a Homunculus Servant transform into via true polymorph?
Looking at the Homunculus Servant stat block, I noticed that for CR it's just blankt. Not 0, not number, just blank. It made me wonder, would it be affected by spells like polymorph or true polymorph? ...
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Which Level are a Familiar's Hit Points calculated from?
Page 52 of the PHB say that a familiar has half the HD and HP of their master. Is this the character's total level, or just of their relevant Arcane class level?
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What are the ways that I can access the spell Find Familiar via magic items or feats?
After asking if Revivify is commonly used, I started searching for ways that I could cast Find Familiar, since that was the only other spell that I had trouble justifying an entire feat for. Answers ...
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Can Paragon Surge be cast on a familiar?
Familiars have the Share Spells ability, allowing spells with special targeting rules to be cast on them:
Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch ...
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Could a familiar use a Spellwrought tattoo?
The description of a Spellwrought Tattoo states:
Produced by a special needle, this magic tattoo contains a single 1st level spell, wrought on your skin by a magic needle. To use the tattoo, you must ...
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Rage of Elements Familiars Questions
I'm a 20+ year DND veteran/forever DM trying to switch my players to PF2e. I have some questions about PF2e familiars, "specific familiars", and the rage of elements familiars, that I can't ...
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What sets the Tressym apart from the rest of the options for familiars as such a good option [closed]
I was looking at the tressym's description in the Storm King's Thunder adventure, and saw this (p. 243):
With the DM's permission, a person who casts the find familiar spell can choose to conjure a ...
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Where can I find information on all the familiars, including those not statted out in the PHB?
In the PHB, the spell find familiar lists a set of creatures you can summon as your familiar; however, for some of them, I'm unable to find any stats in the appendix for them (particularly the octopus)...
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What feats can I use to get a companion of any sort?
Basically, what feats can I use to get a Cohort, Animal Companion, Familiar, or something similar? Standard Class Features and ACF's not so much since they're very class specific, but if there are ...
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How does the Flock of Familiars spell interact with the Pact of the Chain class feature for Warlocks?
I am wondering if this interpretation of the interaction between the Pact of the Chain feature and Flock of Familiars is correct.
Pact of the Chain (emphasis mine) states:
You learn the Find Familiar ...
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What are the official options for alternate familiars using the Find Familiar spell?
Other than the options listed under the find familiar spell in the PHB, and the Pact of the Chain warlock, what other official options are available for familiars that can be summoned by find familiar?...
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Can the Healer Feat be used through an Imp familiar with a healer's kit?
While familiars have been commonly used to deliver potions of healing because "your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands" and "can take other actions as ...
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Is there a rule for poison gathering?
I have heard some people are gathering poison from their Imps (fetched by Improved Familiar feat) and give it to the rogue in their team. But I can't find the related rule anywhere (there's a [Craft (...
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Expandable and free Animal/Familiar/Special Mount
I think everyone hate when an animal companion, mount, or familiar dies. But what is even worse is the time you have to wait to get them back if it happens.
Here is a list of every creature you can ...
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How is a familiar's HP calculated when getting bonus on constitution?
In the description of familiars, it says:
For the purpose of effects related to number of Hit Dice, use the master’s character level or the familiar’s normal HD total, whichever is higher.
The ...
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Can a familiar use master abilities while in a Familiar Tattoo?
Familiar Tattoo is a magic item from Secrets of Magic, and your familiar can crawl into it. While it doesn't mention either master or familiar abilities, the latter mostly need movement or interaction ...
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Grant infinite use of polymorph (to humanoid only) to familiar?
I am wondering if there would be an option to grant the familiar the ability to polymorph itself into a humanoid form (just like what dragons do), which could be interesting story-wise.
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Can becoming a familiar make an Improved Familiar worse: Pathfinder edition
As per this 3.5e question, I believe Pathfinder also has flat tables about familiar advancement - ones that aren't granting "+X to existing statistic", I mean - and thus I find myself ...
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How does this Gazer familiar from the "Waterdeep: Dragon Heist" adventure work?
Our Wizard has the find familiar spell, and we're running through Waterdeep: Dragon Heist. At one point in the adventure, adventurers find an albino Gazer (p. 105):
If I understand correctly, the ...
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Can the Find Familiar spell resummon the familiar behind a barrier?
The PHB (p. 240) states as part of the Find Familiar spell that:
As an action while it is temporarily dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you.
Say the ...
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Is a Sprite the only Pact of the Chain familiar that loses their invisibility when used to deliver a touch spell?
So the Warlock Pact of the Chain says
When you cast the spell, you can choose one of the normal forms for your familiar or one of the following special forms: imp, pseudodragon, quasit, or sprite. (...
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Can you replace a dead alchemical familiar?
Let's say Bob, an Alchemist, took the Alchemical Familiar class feat.
Now let's say this familiar gets killed.
Is there a way for Bob to get his familiar back?
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Can a flying familiar use the Help action to give advantage and then use flyby to avoid being attacked?
As written, can a flying familiar fly to within 5 ft of an enemy, use the Help action to give advantage to an ally's next attack vs that enemy, then immediately fly away out of reach using the Flyby ...
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Pact of The Chain Familiar and Magic Stone: can an Imp (or another Familiar with Arms / Hands) Throw the rocks?
I gave a pouch, filled with some pebbles, to the Imp to hold.
On my turn, I cast Magic stone with my bonus action and attack with some other cantrip like Mind Sliver or something.
Then on the ...
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Getting a new familiar with Improved Familiar
I'm a level 2 Wizard, soon-to-be level 3. I have a Hawk familiar, and I'm very interested in the idea of getting the feat Improved Familiar at level 3. I'm interested in a Celestial Hawk or Owl, which ...
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What is the alignment of a familiar from Find Familiar?
If I cast find familiar, what is the creature's alignment? I ask because the majority of entities that change forms retain their alignment and the familiar is simply a spirit assuming the form of a ...
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Would a spider familiar be able to press the button on the immovable rod whilst swinging from a rope tied to said rod?
1st time DM here. My level 3 party (DnD 5e) used the immovable rod and some rope to escape through the window of a collapsing tower in the latest session. This left the immovable rod out of range of ...
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Can a Pact of the Chain familiar use the help action with counterspell?
I've been trying to find an answer to whether or not a Pact of the Chain familiar can give you advantage on counterspell. I can't find anything directly answering this.
I have found that a chainlock ...
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If I am using my familiar's special sense to see and a creature is attacking me that I see with my familiar, would they get advantage?
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Can I act normally while seeing through my familiar's eyes, per the Find Familiar spell?
Can a spell caster attack and/or cast spells while using a familiar's senses?...
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Can a familiar be resummoned on the other side of a door? [duplicate]
There is a thread about Conjure Elemental not being able to be cast on the other side of a wall due to targeting rules. Does this also apply to bringing a familiar from its extradimensional space? Or ...
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Can a ring of spell storing and access to Find spells produce an endless menagerie?
This is looking at what appears to be a somewhat bizarre rules exploit, and attempting to determine if it is, in fact, viable under the rules.
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We have a Bard who likes having friends - a lot ...
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Can you cast non self spells from Meld into Stone?
The clause in Meld Into Stone that says "you [...] can cast spells on yourself..." is confusing, because it doesn't say with a range of Self or if the rationale is because you are behind ...
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Can a familiar travel any distance?
I (the DM) had this thought that the familiar who belongs to an evil wizard far away from the players was delivering a message to the Bugbear leader of a band of goblins who was under the command of ...
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Can a Pact of the chain warlock take the Attack action via familiar reaction from any distance?
The find familiar spell declares a 100 foot distance for eligibility to deliver a spell with range of touch, but I do not see a distance listed for an attack delivered as a reaction of the familiar ...
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Is the "pocket dimension" a familiar goes into a demiplane or an extradimensional space?
Find familiar allows wizards to send their familiars to a pocket dimension:
As an action, you can temporarily dismiss your familiar. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it awaits your summons....
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Can a Pact of the Chain Warlock use his/her familiar to deliver the warlock's own physical opportunity attack?
When an enemy leaves the reach of a Pact of the Chain warlock, and the warlock gets a physical opportunity attack, can the familiar deliver it to that enemy if both use their reactions?
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Familiar help action flavor [closed]
My DM wants to know how (flavor-wise) my familiar does the help action. My familiar is a small animal (usually spider) hanging on my shoulder while I engage in melee combat. All types of flavor from ...
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Does a familiar detect as a specific alignment?
Okay, so what I've learned: the table for Detect Evil states that a creature will detect as evil if it has enough hit dice. But familiars are also in some ways an extension of their master.
Let's say ...
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Can Chain warlocks have any familiar regardless of alignment?
Can a warlock with the Pact of the Chain Boon have any familiar regardless of the warlock's and familiar's alignments? Is it permissible, as an example, for a Lawful Good Warlock to have a Chaotic ...
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