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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Does the Speech familiar ability inherently make it capable of performing complex tasks?
Specifically considering 2e remaster. Given the following points, which I believe are all pretty clearly stated:
(Player Core 1, p. 212)
You gain the Pet general feat (page 259), except that your pet ...
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Can a controlled mount Pact of the Chain familiar take the Attack action if commanded by an Investment of the Chain Master Warlock?
There is a general rule that a familiar can't attack. There is another general rule that a controlled mount can only take the Dash, Disengage, and Dodge actions.
There are two Warlock eldritch ...
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Can my familiar hold an action to deliver Cure Wounds to me when I drop to less than 1 HP?
In D&D 5e, the Find Familiar spell allows a wizard to cast spells with a range of touch through their familiar:
"Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can ...
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What happens if a creature becomes eligible for a template via Polymorph that they can't normally get, then ends Polymorph?
As an example, I turn my familiar into an orc via the spell Polymorph to help fight some were-penguins. It gets chomped by one.
Per the description of a lycanthropes bite attack, "Any humanoid or ...
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Can a familiar activate a spellwrought tattoo of Aura of Vitality? [duplicate]
My 9-level wizard would like to prepare his Tressym so that, during some tough fights (like the final encounter with the BBEG and his minions), the familiar could help the cleric in keeping the ...
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Who gets to choose where a summoned familiar appears?
The spell find familiar says:
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (...
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Can a familiar in the form of an Imp summoned by a Warlock's Pact of the Chain Find Familiar use its Shapechange on its own?
Can a familiar in the form of an Imp summoned by Pact of the Chain's Find Familiar use Shapechange on its own without being re-summoned?
I ask because as written, Find Familiar summons a spirit in the ...
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Can the target of a bewitching bloom (red rose) tattoo choose their familiar as their beloved?
The Bewitching Bloom is a set of level 2+ magical tattoos with the following two-action activation ability: "Frequency once per day; Effect Choose a willing ally you can see within 30 feet. The ...
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Can you pick Voice of the Chain Master in 5e 2024?
I was making a chain Warlock in D&D Beyond and noticed I couldn't pick my favorite Invocation. Not sure if this is just a limitation of the website or if 2024 specifically doesn't allow Voice of ...
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How does a telepathic bond work if the bondee lacks language?
Let's take the gazer familiar as an example:
Gazer MPMM p.134
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Variant: Gazer Familiar. The gazer can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing ...
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How can a Construct Familiar be healed?
Among the familiar abilities, you can choose the following one:
Construct: Your familiar has the construct trait instead of the animal
trait. The familiar is immune to death effects, disease, doomed,
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Giving a Voice to a Silent Image, how would you rule?
The situation:
Session 0 is next week (Curse of Strahd), and I want to play a warlock (2014 rules, but I'm interested in 2024 differences too, as I may be able to talk to my DM about it) who combines ...
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Does Pact of the Chain allow for a Celestial Imp or other counterintuitive variants?
Find Familiar provides the caster with some degree of customization:
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose […] the familiar has the statistics of the ...
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Can a Skeleton Familiar wear armor?
Would a skeleton familiar be able to wear armor? Obviously its low strength makes heavy armor slow it down, but its respectable dex makes it viable for it to use medium or light armor, plus shields. ...
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What counts as an attack for a Familiar?
In 2014, attacks were clearly defined as basically anything that required an attack roll, be it an unarmed strike or a firebolt. Pretty simple and straight forward, which means for most familiars they ...
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