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Information about Familiars
While creating a mid-level mage, I realized that I wanted to give the character a familiar. Looking at the 2nd edition spell, I saw that there wasn't much information given. I decided to take a look around the WWW and see what was out there. Included here is most of what I found to help encourage a mage character take a familiar. Specialty Familiars for Various Alignments
Here is information from the TSR web page: 1.) Dragon's are Wizards' Best Friends Some unfamiliar familiars for deserving mages [Lesser Dragons] (Dragon #146 By David Cates) 2.) Getting Familiar A wizard's familiar often isn't - familiar, that is [Additional Animal information] (Dragon #147 By Patricia Nead Elrod) 3.) That's Certainly Un-Familiar! Improve the abilities of your wizard's favorite pet [Familiar Enhancer Spell] (Dragon #181 By Len Carpenter) *4.) Familiar Faces An Ad&d games wizard's best friend just got better [Additional Familiars] (Dragon #200 By David Howery) *5.) Bazaar of the Bizarre Familiar Items-Magic for your Familiars (Dragon #221 By James R. Collier) * I offered theses articles to the Dragon web page and was told "...because the Dragon CD-ROM is coming out soon, we are not excepting anymore articles for the archive at this time..." I am offering them here, now. 6.) Dragon #228. I may offer this article at a later day. It is long.
Non-TSR pages with additional information: Familiars by Woodelf You can download the file from Olik's AD&D Pages Familiars, Extended table version You can download the file from Olik's AD&D Pages Table with 134 additional Familiar suggestions Empowered Familiars You can download the file from Olik's AD&D Pages. Empower Familiar spell. Also has suggestions powers for Specialist Wizards. Excellent spell. The additional information is also informative. DeNeault's Superior Familiar This spell allows the caster to link with a natural animal already in their possession. (Right now it is saying that access is forbidden to any page in this directory) (03-99)
Information from Rec.games.frp.dnd newsgroup and the ADND-L discussion list. Find Familiar Spells for Specialist Wizards Find Familiar spells for the following schools: Elemental (Air, Earth, Fire, Water), Necromancer, Shadow Septaped Another Specialty Familiar From James A. Renn Stats for Dogs and Hawks Monster Stastics for various Dogs & Hawks List of 50 Familiars A nice list of 50 Familiars from Ghost
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