Spider familiar?
Ubiquitous
PERFECT familiar for her. I could have sworn I saw specs for such a
familiar, but can't seem to track it down! Any ideas?
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Campaign Setting - Improved Familliar Feat or in Tome & Blood. I would
also check in Monsters Of Faerun...
Alternatively, I would simply take any spiders I like from the Monster
Manual or other book and apply Familiar stats from the PHB to it...
I did that with the Crawling Claw in MofF and it turns out to be a very
cool familliar...Kinda like "hand" in the Adam's Family...
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John Reyst
> cool familliar...Kinda like "hand" in the Adam's Family...
it's name was 'thing'
Alfred Hailey
>
> I'm creating a Drow mage character and think a spider would make the
> PERFECT familiar for her. I could have sworn I saw specs for such a
> familiar, but can't seem to track it down! Any ideas?
Check the 'vermin' section of the MM for Tiny Monstrous Spider.
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dilbert
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>I'm creating a Drow mage character and think a spider would make the
>PERFECT familiar for her. I could have sworn I saw specs for such a
>familiar, but can't seem to track it down! Any ideas?
Maybe Tome and Blood? They had lots of different familiars. I'd
probably stat it out much like a viper (existing familiar) - it's only
major advantage is poison, just as the viper.
Ubiquitous
wrote...
>Check the 'vermin' section of the MM for Tiny Monstrous Spider.
That's the first place I looked. I wondered if there was an official
listing showing the abilities granted to the master.
Spider climb?
Venomous bite?
Casting webs?
megarandom
alertness feat.
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Under the Sorcerer listing in the FRCS
Familiar: Hairy spider
Special : Poisonous bite, darkvision
creature is listed in Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerun. Hairy
Spider gains a + 1 Int., becomes a magical beast (not vermin) and loses
its immunity to mind influencing effects.
Dan Norder
>
>That's the first place I looked. I wondered if there was an official
>listing showing the abilities granted to the master.
>
>Spider climb?
>Venomous bite?
>Casting webs?
All of those would be unbalanced compared to the abilities from other basic
familiars, IMNSHO.
Alfred Hailey
> >Venomous bite?
> >Casting webs?
>
> All of those would be unbalanced compared to the abilities from other basic
> familiars, IMNSHO.
How about a small saving throw bonus (say, +2) against poison? Not at
all out of line...
Kaos
Possibly. However, it could be run like a tiny snake; it offers no
special ability to the caster, but has spider climb and venemous bite
itself.
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>I'm creating a Drow mage character and think a spider would make the
>PERFECT familiar for her. I could have sworn I saw specs for such a
>familiar, but can't seem to track it down! Any ideas?
We actually have one in my game. It grants the caster +4 to poison saves (if
the spider is poisonous) or grants immunity to web (if it's a web spider).
Overpowered? Doubtful. I can live with immunity to one spell. Esspecially
since relilcs and rituals gave me glue.
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gilmae
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> Spider climb?
> Venomous bite?
> Casting webs?
Annoying clone storyline?
g.
Ubiquitous
wrote...
>>That's the first place I looked. I wondered if there was an official
>>listing showing the abilities granted to the master.
>>
>>Spider climb?
>>Venomous bite?
>>Casting webs?
>
>All of those would be unbalanced compared to the abilities from other basic
>familiars, IMNSHO.
If memory serves me right, snake familiars grant the master a venomous bite.
Blackstar Deittrich
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: Annoying clone storyline?
I'd be willing to put up with an annoying clone if I could
have Mary Jane to console me.
Or better yet, Gwen Stacy.
Pete
megarandom
bestowed upon the master. In the table, things bestowed upon the master are
listed as "Master gains..." and such-like. The Raven "Speaks one language"
and the Snake(Tiny) has "Poisonous Bite".
Personally, I think it would be a bit ridiculous to think that the
human-type wizard or Sorcerer would have to try to bite someone...*grin* Now
an Orc Sorcerer...
dilbert
wrote:
>In article <3BA6776D...@home.com>, neutroni...@home.com
>wrote...
>
>>Check the 'vermin' section of the MM for Tiny Monstrous Spider.
>
>That's the first place I looked. I wondered if there was an official
>listing showing the abilities granted to the master.
>
>Spider climb?
>Venomous bite?
>Casting webs?
Assuming the spider venom is as toxic as the viper venom, I'd say
"none of the above". The viper's master does not gain a poisonous
bite. Rather he gains the advantage of a familiar with a very
dangerous combat skill.
Any special ability would be no greater than those provided by other
familiars, so I could see no more than a +2 bonus to climb checks.
dilbert
wrote:
>In article <20010917230326...@mb-cq.aol.com>, dann...@aol.com
>wrote...
>
>>>That's the first place I looked. I wondered if there was an official
>>>listing showing the abilities granted to the master.
>>>
>>>Spider climb?
>>>Venomous bite?
>>>Casting webs?
>>
>>All of those would be unbalanced compared to the abilities from other basic
>>familiars, IMNSHO.
>
>If memory serves me right, snake familiars grant the master a venomous bite.
Memory betrays you. IHTBIFOM and there is no menthion of "master" in
the viper's special ability. IT has a poisonous bite.
Ubiquitous
rand...@home.com wrote...
> Personally, I think it would be a bit ridiculous to think that the
>human-type wizard or Sorcerer would have to try to bite someone...*grin* Now
>an Orc Sorcerer...
Not as odd as the master gaining the skunk's special ability...
So why would anyone want a familiar that doesn't give you bonuses?
Chad Lubrecht
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>In article <wCRp7.12320$w62.8...@news1.denver1.co.home.com>,
>rand...@home.com wrote...
>
>> Personally, I think it would be a bit ridiculous to think that the
>>human-type wizard or Sorcerer would have to try to bite someone...*grin* Now
>>an Orc Sorcerer...
>
>Not as odd as the master gaining the skunk's special ability...
>
>So why would anyone want a familiar that doesn't give you bonuses?
I found my bat familiar was quite usefull, as a scout, spy, watchdog,
etc...
Mike Shannon
clever aren't as important as having big stats.
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Ubiquitous
>Assuming the spider venom is as toxic as the viper venom, I'd say
>"none of the above". The viper's master does not gain a poisonous
>bite. Rather he gains the advantage of a familiar with a very
>dangerous combat skill.
Actually, I don't recall the DC for their poison being all that
threatening, 13 at best.
Dan Norder
>> >Venomous bite?
>> >Casting webs?
>>
>> All of those would be unbalanced compared to the abilities from other basic
>> familiars, IMNSHO.
>
>How about a small saving throw bonus (say, +2) against poison? Not at
>all out of line...
Sounds reasonable.
dilbert
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>In article <3ba7e74f.7219699@news>, hnei...@accessweb.com wrote...
>
>>Assuming the spider venom is as toxic as the viper venom, I'd say
>>"none of the above". The viper's master does not gain a poisonous
>>bite. Rather he gains the advantage of a familiar with a very
>>dangerous combat skill.
>
>Actually, I don't recall the DC for their poison being all that
>threatening, 13 at best.
Compare this attack to a toad, a bat or an owl...
roll...@csdisco.com
> I'm creating a Drow mage character and think a spider would make the
> PERFECT familiar for her. I could have sworn I saw specs for such a
> familiar, but can't seem to track it down! Any ideas?
>
> "I enjoy Spam. It's a meat that comes in a can. I have not tried
> the Internet kind, but I'm sure it's just as tasty as the original"