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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Homebrew spell to improve familiar link before combat
Yesterday I was thinking that the standard actions required to manage the familiar
(to see and hear from her, to dismiss and recall her into the pocket dimension, etc) are quite a burden in combat,
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Familiar senses outside of a turn order
Find Familiar says
as an action, you can see through your familiar's eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn
What if you're not in a turn order, out of combat? When does this ...
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Is there any way to make familiars useful at higher (10+) levels of play?
Here's my problem.
I'm playing an Arcanist, currently level 12, Mythic 1 (fresh after level-up), so called god-wizard build (plenty of CC and pre-combat buffs for fights and swiss-army-knife for ...
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What ways can a pure martial get Find Familiar at level 1?
I want to have a familiar on a character of a class without access to Spellcasting or Pact Magic features, and I want this to occur at level 1.
The way I know how to do it is with a feat that gives ...
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is there any spell or magic item that can give a familiar the flyby ability?
Currently there are very few familiars that have the flyby ability.
I was wondering: is there any spell or magic item that can give a familiar the flyby ability?
My familiar is a tressym so he is able ...
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Is there any way to improve or adjust familiar stats in PF1e?
Basically what it says on the tin; I'm playing in a campaign where I've taken the leadership feat, and I have 1st level wizards to manage. I'm looking for something low level that can improve or ...
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Can Blindness/Deafness Condition caused by Find Familiar etc be removed by Lesser Restoration?
Spells such as Find Familiar and Beast Sense cause the caster to be blinded and deafened to their own senses when perceiving through the senses of the familiar/beast. Does that count as the blinded ...
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What is a "general emotion" for Empathic Link?
As a Wizard, I have a Familiar:
Empathic Link (Su): The master has an empathic link with his familiar to a 1 mile distance. The master can communicate empathically with the familiar, but cannot see ...
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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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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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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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