07-17-2018, 05:20 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Pets and Familiars
Wizards and In The Labyrinth mention that wizard characters can have pets or familiars. Now that I've pulled up some saved character sheets from long ago, I see some players had them, but I don't remember how they used them.
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07-17-2018, 05:31 PM | #2 | |
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: London Uk, but originally from Scotland
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07-17-2018, 05:53 PM | #3 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Pets and Familiars
I had a player who was a would-be thief/animal handler for a while (until he had the Wizard's Guild erase those talents to make room for different talents), who got a pet Slinker and tried training it to pick locks and go steal shiny objects. That was actually pretty fun & interesting.
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07-17-2018, 06:29 PM | #4 |
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Coquitlam B.C.
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Re: Pets and Familiars
Hi all,
Long ago I wrote up familiars based on the D&D tropes. (Gave fatigue ST, mental connection, Wizard lost 2 attributes if it died, etc.) I struggled for a long time to make them useful, not too fragile, not too overpowered, etc. They were not popular with my players, and eventually the idea just quietly died away. No one of my more successful efforts. (Maybe I should give this another attempt one of these days.) Warm regards, Rick. |
07-17-2018, 07:40 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Pets and Familiars
I could see familiars as being magical creatures, that appears to be in the form of a small animal, that as an alternative to a staff, would hold mana, and let a wizard see through its eyes. Maybe a Call Familiar spell would request its appearance for 5ST and if a familiar died it would need to be called again, much like re-creating a staff.
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07-18-2018, 12:01 AM | #6 | |
Join Date: May 2018
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ITL does say a wizard can "have a cat as a pet or familiar". What about letting the wizard have larger familiars at 1 mana per ST over 4, so a ST 10 wolf would require "investing" 6 mana? |
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07-18-2018, 12:05 AM | #7 |
Join Date: May 2015
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What if a familiar were an alternative receptacle for the new staff ability?
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07-18-2018, 12:11 AM | #8 | |
Join Date: May 2018
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07-18-2018, 12:23 AM | #9 |
Join Date: May 2015
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Re: Pets and Familiars
Oh whoops, I skipped over that. Er yes, great idea! :-)
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07-18-2018, 12:41 AM | #10 |
Join Date: May 2018
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