I like to use familiars as little
spirit animal mascots for parties. They make great comic relief
(“Miglet's at it again...”), enable quick plot hooks (Wait a
minute! Where's Plucky!?”), and provided the little extra tool that
helps players get out of sticky situations (“Roachy, climb under
the door”). Since one of the perks on my “What Makes You So Special” table is “has a familiar” I figured I should include a
table to help determine what sort of cuddly critter is gleefully
following the characters to their doom, and like any good random
table it should be d100 and get insanely gonzo by the end right?
D100 Familiars
- Asp
- Armadillo
- Bat
- Butterfly
- House Cat
- Bobcat
- Centipede
- Hen
- Cock
- Cockroach
- Crayfish
- Goldfish
- Fox
- Hare
- Hawk
- Hedgehog
- Koala
- Lemming
- Slug
- Lizard
- Horned Frog
- Meerkat
- Mole
- Monkey
- Moth
- Land Octopus
- Otter
- Owl
- Peacock
- Pig
- Platypus
- Raccoon
- Rat
- Mouse
- Raven
- Locust
- Cricket
- Grasshopper
- Scorpion
- Skunk
- Sloth
- Squirrel
- Flying Squirrel
- Frog
- Toad
- Box Turtle
- Snapping Turtle
- Wallaby
- Weasel
- Echidna
- Cobra
- Black Widow
- Orb Weaver
- Tarantula
- Mocking Bird
- Parrot
- Gull
- Duck
- Swan
- Vulture
- Small Dog
- Hunting Dog
- Wolf
- Gremlin
- Imp
- Fairy
- Mouse
- Miniature Dinosaur
- Crab
- Doll
- Pocket Golem
- Opossum
- Rabbit
- Lilliputian
- Lady Bug
- Purse Dragon
- Puppet
- Backpack Goblin
- Newt
- Bonsai Ent
- Elementalette, Fire
- Elementalette, Water
- Elementalette, Earth
- Elementalette, Wind
- Automaton
- Garden Gnome
- Worm
- Disembodied Hand
- Wandering Eye
- A Wondrously Shifting Color
- Blood Orphan
- Snail
- Slug
- Statue
- A Skeletal “Roll Again”
- A Ghost of a “Roll Again”
- A Zombie “Roll Again”
- An Invisible “Roll Again”
- A cross between a “Roll Again” and a “Roll Again”
- A “Roll Again” Riding a “Roll Again”I am not providing stats or special abilities because I play my familiars pretty fast and loose. 1D4 or 1d6 hp and one appropriate special ability of little real consequence. The familiar and the character can communicate in their own whispery language that comes from knowing each others true name. I'm also game to let characters attain familiars in game through questing, witch ritual, or happy accident, and I don't limit the attaining of familiars to specific classes. You do you.
Cool list! I love the "Wondrously Shifting Color". Some of my One Hit Point Monsters might work as these types of familiars too. I have an Aggroach one their (Giant Cockroach) that could be used as the cockroach you have here, etc. Just added your blog to my blogroll.
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