[ AD&D ] [ Fantasy Role Playing ] [ GURPS ] [ Home Page ]
[ Jason Eric Nelson's Character Classes ]
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
[ AD&D ] [ Fantasy Role Playing ] [ GURPS ] [ Home Page ]
[ Jason Eric Nelson's Character Classes ]