Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2017 18:49:40 GMT
Do you use these in your games? Any stories to tell?
There are a few good articles in Dragon, about familiars/find familiar:
Familiars "Cast of Strange Familiars, A" Stephen Inniss 84(10) D&D1
"Familiar Faces" David Howery 200(30) D&D2
"Familiar Flavoring" Diaz & Ling 341(88) D&D3
"Familiars With a Special Use" Stephen Inniss 86(12) D&D1
"Getting Familiar" P.N. Elrod 147(14) D&D1
"Little More Familiar, A" Stephen Kenson 280(60) D&D3
Abilities for spellcasters in
place of "Transversed Arcana" Rick Miller 357(88) D&D3
Abilities, new "Familiarity Breeds" Hal Maclean 331(93) D&D3
Animal companions "Greater Familiars of Faerun" Jean Rabe 228(76) D&D2
Constructs "Forging Friends: Construct Familiars" Kieran Turley 341(34) D&D3
Dragons "Dragons are Wizards' Best Friends" David E. Cates 146(14) D&D1
Enhancing "That's Certainly Un-Familiar" Len Carpenter 181(22) D&D2
Gens: AL-QADIM "Return of the Sha'ir" Dean Poisso 315(82) D&D3
Magic items for "Bazaar of the Bizarre: Familiar Items" James R. Collier 221(83) D&D2
Specialist wizards, for "Specialist Familiars" F. Wesley Schneider 323(98) D&D3
Supernatural "Familiars With a Special Use" Stephen Inniss 86(12) D&D1
Swarms "Swarm Familiars" Tim Hitchcock 329(98) D&D3
Source: Dragondex
Last year, we had a game with a brownie familiar, and, I seem to remember that he saved the party's bacon, a few times. Generally, it is often posited that a familiar is a liability, but with regards to the special familiars, that is rather debatable, especially at low levels. For brownies, also note that they are presented as a class, in White Dwarf #29.
There are a few good articles in Dragon, about familiars/find familiar:
Familiars "Cast of Strange Familiars, A" Stephen Inniss 84(10) D&D1
"Familiar Faces" David Howery 200(30) D&D2
"Familiar Flavoring" Diaz & Ling 341(88) D&D3
"Familiars With a Special Use" Stephen Inniss 86(12) D&D1
"Getting Familiar" P.N. Elrod 147(14) D&D1
"Little More Familiar, A" Stephen Kenson 280(60) D&D3
Abilities for spellcasters in
place of "Transversed Arcana" Rick Miller 357(88) D&D3
Abilities, new "Familiarity Breeds" Hal Maclean 331(93) D&D3
Animal companions "Greater Familiars of Faerun" Jean Rabe 228(76) D&D2
Constructs "Forging Friends: Construct Familiars" Kieran Turley 341(34) D&D3
Dragons "Dragons are Wizards' Best Friends" David E. Cates 146(14) D&D1
Enhancing "That's Certainly Un-Familiar" Len Carpenter 181(22) D&D2
Gens: AL-QADIM "Return of the Sha'ir" Dean Poisso 315(82) D&D3
Magic items for "Bazaar of the Bizarre: Familiar Items" James R. Collier 221(83) D&D2
Specialist wizards, for "Specialist Familiars" F. Wesley Schneider 323(98) D&D3
Supernatural "Familiars With a Special Use" Stephen Inniss 86(12) D&D1
Swarms "Swarm Familiars" Tim Hitchcock 329(98) D&D3
Source: Dragondex
Last year, we had a game with a brownie familiar, and, I seem to remember that he saved the party's bacon, a few times. Generally, it is often posited that a familiar is a liability, but with regards to the special familiars, that is rather debatable, especially at low levels. For brownies, also note that they are presented as a class, in White Dwarf #29.
