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	* Osquip (Any Non-Good Alignment, 5th level)		* Osquip (Any Non-Good Alignment, 5th level)
	* Tressym (Any Non-Evil Alignment, 5th level)		* Tressym (Any Non-Evil Alignment, 5th level)
	::Serpent Kingdoms Familiars		::[[Serpent Kingdoms]] Familiars
	* Jaculi (Any Non-Lawful AND Non-Good Alignment, 5th level)		* Jaculi (Any Non-Lawful AND Non-Good Alignment, 5th level)
	* Mlarraun (Any Alignment, 5th level)		* Mlarraun (Any Alignment, 5th level)
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	* Tree Python (Any Alignment, 3rd level)		* Tree Python (Any Alignment, 3rd level)
	* Whipsnake (Any Non-Lawful AND Non-Good Alignment, 3rd level)		* Whipsnake (Any Non-Lawful AND Non-Good Alignment, 3rd level)
	::Shining South Familiars		::[[Shining South]] Familiars
	* Beguiler (Any Alignment, 7th level)		* Beguiler (Any Alignment, 7th level)
	* Starsnake (Any Alignment, 12th level)		* Starsnake (Any Alignment, 12th level)

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1d4chan>QuietBrowser: Added a stub of info about the Dread Familiar from Ravenloft. This needs expanding.

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Added a stub of info about the Dread Familiar from Ravenloft. This needs expanding.

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	Note that the Item Familiar feat in Unearthed Arcana is '''not''', in fact, a replacement of the summon familiar feature; it is a totally separate thing that anyone, even non-spellcasters, can get and benefit from. You could have both a regular living-creature familiar as well as an Item Familiar.		Note that the Item Familiar feat in Unearthed Arcana is '''not''', in fact, a replacement of the summon familiar feature; it is a totally separate thing that anyone, even non-spellcasters, can get and benefit from. You could have both a regular living-creature familiar as well as an Item Familiar.

			[[Ravenloft]] introduced a variant of the regular familiar called the ''Dread Familiar'' in this edition, which is basically a loyal but utterly evil familiar that essentially tries to act out all your dark thoughts without any concern to how this might screw you over, yet another of the many ways that the setting tried to stop you from playing a [[wizard]].

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	Spells (Note that these are all based on the 3.0 rules.)		Spells (Note that these are all based on the 3.0 rules.)
	* [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20011209a\|Animate Dead Familiar]]: Makes your dead familiar undead.		* [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20011209a\| Animate Dead Familiar]]: Makes your dead familiar undead.
	* [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20011109a\|Elemental Familiar]]: instant duration; Turns your familiar into a tiny elemental		* [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20011109a\| Elemental Familiar]]: instant duration; Turns your familiar into a tiny elemental
	* [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20011020a\|Planar Familiar]]: Turns your familiar into a Celestial/Fiendish/Axiomatic/Anarchic creature. (Weirdly its a cleric spell but it can only be cast on your own familiar, so you need to either UMD a scroll or use Limited wish.		* [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/sb/sb20011020a\| Planar Familiar]]: Turns your familiar into a Celestial/Fiendish/Axiomatic/Anarchic creature. (Weirdly its a cleric spell but it can only be cast on your own familiar, so you need to either UMD a scroll or use Limited wish.

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	* [[Tressym]] (Storm King's Thunder)		* [[Tressym]] (Storm King's Thunder)

	In addition to the above, an interactive map of [[Icewind Dale]] released for the 2020 D&D Celebration contained three puzzle-concealed Adventurer's League-legal unlockable familiars; the Gelatinous Ice Cube (a frozen miniature [[Slime\|Gelatinous Cube]], the Snowy [[Owlbear]] Cub, and the Arctic Stink-Squirrel (basically a skunk with a climb speed).		In addition to the above, an interactive map of [[Icewind Dale]] released for the 2020 D&D Celebration contained three puzzle-concealed Adventurer's League-legal unlockable familiars; the Gelatinous Ice Cube (a frozen miniature [[Slime\|Gelatinous Cube]]), the Snowy [[Owlbear]] Cub, and the Arctic Stink-Squirrel (basically a skunk with a climb speed).

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3rd Edition: loose -> lose

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	But wait, it gets better. In addition to all this, your familiar also gets higher Intelligence and additional special abilities as you level up. It can deliver touch spells, speak with the master and/or animals of its kind, gets spell resistance, and you could even eventually scry on the familiar once/day. The 3.5 update made familiars even better: they could now share spells, meaning that a caster who used ''mage armor'' or ''polymorph'' could choose to have it cast on the familiar as well, for free, straight up. I'll give you slower folks a moment to realize the implications of this as you realize that, yes, your little kitty cat familiar could now potentially turn into a griffon for a short time.		But wait, it gets better. In addition to all this, your familiar also gets higher Intelligence and additional special abilities as you level up. It can deliver touch spells, speak with the master and/or animals of its kind, gets spell resistance, and you could even eventually scry on the familiar once/day. The 3.5 update made familiars even better: they could now share spells, meaning that a caster who used ''mage armor'' or ''polymorph'' could choose to have it cast on the familiar as well, for free, straight up. I'll give you slower folks a moment to realize the implications of this as you realize that, yes, your little kitty cat familiar could now potentially turn into a griffon for a short time.

	Now, you may be smirking about what the drawbacks of a 3rd edition familiar are. Well, this is it: you ~~loose~~ 200 XP per level, half that if you make a Fort DC 15 save (and you can't go under 0 XP). That's literally all you suffer. So basically if your familiar dies, you sort of stunt your progress a bit, but this happened in 3rd Edition if you made magic items, cast (''limited'') ''wish'', etc., so it was a semi-negligible drawback even back then. You don't lose Constitution or permanent hit point, you don't die, you just fry your brain a bit and have to relearn some stuff.		Now, you may be smirking about what the drawbacks of a 3rd edition familiar are. Well, this is it: you lose 200 XP per level, half that if you make a Fort DC 15 save (and you can't go under 0 XP). That's literally all you suffer. So basically if your familiar dies, you sort of stunt your progress a bit, but this happened in 3rd Edition if you made magic items, cast (''limited'') ''wish'', etc., so it was a semi-negligible drawback even back then. You don't lose Constitution or permanent hit point, you don't die, you just fry your brain a bit and have to relearn some stuff.

	Acquiring a special familiar was no longer either a matter of luck or DM fiat: you bought a feat called Improved Familiar, and selected a new and improved familiar based on certain things like alignment, caster level, race, Base Attack Bonus. (No shit on that last one: if you had a high enough attack bonus, you could acquire a hippogriff or a fucking hellhound familiar.) Later sourcebooks and Dragon articles went from an already impressive list to a fuckhuge cyclopedia of familiars, including extraplanar buddies like fiends and elementals.		Acquiring a special familiar was no longer either a matter of luck or DM fiat: you bought a feat called Improved Familiar, and selected a new and improved familiar based on certain things like alignment, caster level, race, Base Attack Bonus. (No shit on that last one: if you had a high enough attack bonus, you could acquire a hippogriff or a fucking hellhound familiar.) Later sourcebooks and Dragon articles went from an already impressive list to a fuckhuge cyclopedia of familiars, including extraplanar buddies like fiends and elementals.

1d4chan>QuietBrowser: Tried to add a section on the familiars from the Tome of Beasts trilogy, and how they mechanically differ to the normal rules, but I don't quite understand it myself.

2021-01-06T06:07:31Z

Tried to add a section on the familiars from the Tome of Beasts trilogy, and how they mechanically differ to the normal rules, but I don't quite understand it myself.

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1d4chan>QuietBrowser: /* 5th Edition */

2020-10-05T23:36:30Z

5th Edition

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	;Splatbook Familiars		;Splatbook Familiars
	* [[Al'miraj]] (Tomb of Annihilation)		* [[Al'miraj]] (Tomb of Annihilation)
	* Chwinga (Tomb of Annihilation)		* [[Chwinga]] (Tomb of Annihilation)
	* Flying Monkey (Tomb of Annihilation)		* Flying Monkey (Tomb of Annihilation)
	* Gazer (Volo's Guide to Monsters)		* [[Gazer]] (Volo's Guide to Monsters)
	* [[Imp]] (Monster Manual)		* [[Imp]] (Monster Manual)
	* [[Pseudodragon]] (Monster Manual)		* [[Pseudodragon]] (Monster Manual)
	* [[Quasit]] (Monster Manual)		* [[Quasit]] (Monster Manual)
	* [[Sprite]] (Monster Manual)		* [[Sprite]] (Monster Manual)
	* Tressym (Storm King's Thunder)		* [[Tressym]] (Storm King's Thunder)

			In addition to the above, an interactive map of [[Icewind Dale]] released for the 2020 D&D Celebration contained three puzzle-concealed Adventurer's League-legal unlockable familiars; the Gelatinous Ice Cube (a frozen miniature [[Slime\|Gelatinous Cube]], the Snowy [[Owlbear]] Cub, and the Arctic Stink-Squirrel (basically a skunk with a climb speed).

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1d4chan>Ћ Professional: /* 2nd Edition */

2020-07-18T17:34:34Z

2nd Edition

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	* Elven Cat		* Elven Cat
	* Blink Dog		* Blink Dog
	* [[~~Umberhulk~~]]		* [[Umber Hulk]]
	* [[Unicorn]]		* [[Unicorn]]
	* [[Pseudodragon]]		* [[Pseudodragon]]