You don't just say some magic words, burn some incense and get a servant for life. You actually have to find a real, live pseudodragon and maintain a good relationship with it. I would in no way feel constrained by the 'normal familiar rules' if I thought the campaign and party and character could benefit from this.Īnd to be 100% clear, these options have nothing to do with the Find Familiar spell. Those are times when magic items to the less powerful characters can help-or something like a cool familiar. Even if no one is objectionably power gaming, it's still possible (maybe common) that some characters are built to be able to do way more, combat or otherwise, than other characters.
One way it might not cause balance issues is simply because some players might have optimized characters better than others. Holy Avengers at 1st level isn't great.īut if a variant variant familiar isn't going to cause balance issues, then why not? I also of course wouldn't just hand out a powerful magic item without some thought given to game balance. That's how I see it as well-I wouldn't stop and think "what do I have to take away from this character" before I give a paladin a powerful magic item. Optional familiars like pseudodragons have more in common with magic items than spells or class features they're something extra on top of the baseline options available to players. You can't compare something that's built into a class to something DMs can award players. Otherwise it steps on the toes of warlocks who have a class feature to get better familiars, including pseudodragons. Generally a familiar that is more powerful than the ones listed in the spell is only available for a short time or to NPCs.
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