Improved Familiar
Prerequisite: 7th level, Ability to Cast Spell: Find Familiar
You gain the service of an improved familiar, a spirit that that takes the form of a standard familiar, any non-humanoid creature with a CR less than 1 or any one of the following creatures: imp, pseudodragon, quasit, sprite, or tressym.
Instead of the usual 1 hour ritual for the find familiar spell, it takes only 30 minutes to summon your improved familiar.
It gains an Intelligence Score of 14 if it's not 14 or higher already, and its Wisdom and Charisma scores increase by 4. It's Armor Class increases by an amount equal to half your proficiency bonus. It appears in an unoccupied space within range and has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of its normal type.
Your improved familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. In combat it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. A familiar can’t attack, but it can take other actions as normal, such as the Help Action. Your familiar may also take over the concentration effort of any one spell from its master, allowing the caster to cast a second concentration spell.
As a Bonus Action, you can temporarily dismiss your improved familiar. It disappears into a pocket dimension where it awaits your call. You can recall your improved familiar as a Bonus Action as well, upon which it reappears in any unoccupied space within 30 feet of you.
You can communicate telepathically with your familiar as long as they are within 1 mile of you, and they can speak any language that you can speak plus any listed in their entries. Additionally, as a Bonus Action, you can see through the familiar’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special senses it has. While perceiving through your familiar’s senses, you can also speak through your familiar in your own voice. You may choose to use your Skill Bonuses and Proficiencies when sharing your familiar's senses, though they revert back as soon as you cease this connection.
You cannot have more than one familiar at a time, regardless of type. If you cast this spell while you already have any type of familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new form.
In all other ways your improved familiar functions as described by the find familiar spell.
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