Familiar - Races

Familiars are companions where both the caster and the familiar benefit from the process. Familiars become enhanced version of the creature they start out as. The caster gains a companion with some unique abilities and one boost of some sort based on the familiar they attract.

The bond works both ways. Familiars can decide to leave their caster at any time. This is a very rare situation and only occurs when a caster treats their familiar poorly. When either the familiar or the caster die, it has grievous effects on the other creature in the pact.

Create the Familiar Race

1. Pick a Creature Origin

Select your creature origin from the list below from before you became awakened.

Amphibiformes: Amphibians
Aveformes: Birds
Caniformes : Canines
Cephalaformes: Cephapods
Crustaformes: Crabs
Feliformes: Cats
Icthyformes: Fishes
Insectumformes:: Insects and Bugs
Musteliformes: Small furry carnivores
Planteformes: Plants
Rodentaformes: Rodents
Scimiaformes: Monkeys
Squamataformes: Reptiles
Ungulaformes: Hooved animals
Ursaformes: Bears

Your choice will affect your starting Ability Score Increase, your speed, and other related traits. These are covered in the next section.

See the Create Origin Section for details.

2. Add in the Pseudo racial Ability Scores

All familiars add 1 to their intelligence score

In addition, instead of having a sub-race ability score increase, pick one of the traits below that best exemplifies your familiar.

Strong: +2 Strength, and proficiency in Strength saves
Fast: +2 Dexterity, and proficiency in Dexterity saves
Tough: +2 Constitution, and proficiency in Constitution saves
Smart: +2 Intelligence, and proficiency in Intelligence saves
Wise: +2 Wisdom, and proficiency in Wisdom saves
Influential: +2 Charisma, and proficiency in Charisma saves

3. Determine Ability Scores with Point Buy System

The method described here allows you to build a character with a set of ability scores you choose individually. You have 20 points to spend on your ability scores. The cost of each score is shown on the Ability Score Point Cost table. For example, a score of 14 costs 7 points. Using this method, 16 is the highest ability score you can end up with, before racial increases. You can’t have a score lower than 3. I left 18 on the table just to show the cost of it.

Score	Cost	Score	Cost
7	-1	13	5
8	0	14	7
9	1	15	9
10	2	16	12
11	3	17	15
12	4	18	19

4. Size

Familiars are small or tiny in the case of Insectumformes. Look at the Effects of Size section for the effects for the familiar.

5. Languages

Familiars can speak the same language as their master.

6. Diverse Features

At 1st level you begin with two features from the Recommended Diverse Features list. In addition, you get to pick a single Diverse Feature at both 5th and 10th level if they every achieve those levels. Most will max out at 4th level. You can also choose a Diverse Feature instead of a feat.

7. Select a Familiar Backgrounds

Familiars can fill many roles for their owners/masters.

List of backgrounds

8. Choose a Familiar Classes

Every familiar has a class from a special list of classes below. Currently there are two classes, Export, and Warrior. The Export is a skills rich class, while the Warrior is more of a fighting class. See the Familiar Classes Sections

List of Familiar Classes

Leveling your Familiar

There are two ways to add levels to your familiar. Improving your familiar is about sacrifice and connection. You are connected and you give your familiar parts of you to make them stronger and better.

Important note about the level of your familiar. Except at levels 1st – 3rd your familiar must always be at least three levels below your character level. So the first time you can start to add a level to your familiar is when you reach 4th level.

Experience Points

You can decide to sacrifice experience when you gain them, and give them to your familiar instead.

Feats

You can take the feat: Familiar Gains a Level. When you do, they gain just enough experience points to gain a new level.

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Effects of Size

Most familiars are small. Actually, all forms except Insectumformes are small. Insectumformes are tiny. Below are the effects that happen based on size.

Tiny

These are the effects of being tiny:

All Tiny creatures have a maximum of 14 on initial Strength scores and a maximum of 16 after character creation.
Tiny creatures gain a +2 bonus to AC.
Tiny creatures have quarter the carrying capacity of a medium creature.

Small

These are the effects of being small:

All Small creatures have a maximum of 16 on initial Strength scores and a maximum of 18 after character creation.
Small characters gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Small characters have half the carrying capacity of a medium creature.

Medium

All of the rules in the game are based on creatures being medium size. There are no effects here

Large

These are the effects of being Large:

All large creatures have a maximum of 20 on initial Strength scores and a maximum of 22 after character creation.
Large creatures gain a -1 to AC.
Large creatures have double the carrying capacity of a medium creature.
Large creatures gain advantage on saves against being pushed, tripped, etc. by creatures that are smaller than themselves.

Huge

These are the effects of being huge:

All huge creatures have a maximum of 26 on initial Strength scores and a maximum of 28 after character creation.
Huge creatures gain a -2 to AC.
Huge creatures have four times the carrying capacity of a medium creature.
Huge creatures gain advantage on saves against being pushed, tripped, etc. by creatures that are smaller than themselves.

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