Jack over at Tales of the Grotesque and Dungeonesque has a table for spicing up the "Find Familiar" spell. The table is damn good, but I thought it could be improved by the addition of a few more entries.
The chart below is a stand alone version of my entries:
| d8 | Familiar | Senses Modified |
| 1 | Hop Toad (a large toad with pale skin and occasional clumps of hair, croaks sound sickeningly human) | Hearing, improved sight |
| 2 | Tommy Rawhead (a pig’s head rudely placed on a human skeleton, speaks common in a low mumble, shouts obscenities) | Hearing, improved smell |
| 3 | Mandragora (an animated root in the shape of a babe, mouths inaudibly, grimaces as though in pain) | Night vision |
| 4 | Porcelain Double (1d6 1-3 miniature 4-6 life sized, appears identical to the magic user, cannot speak, expression appears blank to most onlookers but withering to the magic user) | Hearing, Night Vision |
| 5 | Horned Serpent (viper with tiny horns, horribly human eyes, blood red scales, hissing sounds like whispers tempting the magic user to commit horrible acts) | Night vision, improved smell |
| 6 | Gamecock (belligerent rooster, always appears covered in blood) | Improved sight |
| 7 | Living Scarecrow (made of straw with a painted or jack o’ lantern face, incredibly mischievous, delights in terrifying children) | Night vision |
| 8 | Black Goat (walks upright, plays panpipes, is incredibly haughty) | Improved smell, improved sight |
A combined version of the two tables (which uses a d20) can be found here.
Special thanks to Cole for providing the idea for the porcelain double.
Creepy stuff - I like it!
ReplyDeleteOh, and hi - great blog!
Very cool. I like the Gamecock- never thought of using a rooster as a familiar but they seem to fit very well.
ReplyDeleteI might be wrong, but I seem to remember Bernardo Gui accusing a woman as having a rooster for a familiar in the film version of The Name of the Rose. That's where I got the idea.
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