I am playing a pact of the chain warlock for the first time, and I wanted to see what the community thought about a minor homebrew question. In particular, the way I have the toon flavored is that he has a cat that was transformed into a familiar, and it can now change shape. For obvious reasons mechanical reasons, one of the shapes the familiar/cat often takes is that of an imp.
I wonder if there are any serious mechanical, or other world breaking, problems others see with having the shapechanger ability of the imp allow the familiar to still be in imp form, but appear as a cat. That way, it wouldn't take a new cast of find familiar to have the familiar be in its 'home'.
Or just trade 'cat' for 'rat' as one of the forms to which an Imp can polymorph, and say that the default form is cat and not Imp. As per the description of Imp, its stats, aside from movement, would remain that of an Imp. Or are you looking for the familiar to have the stats, and not just the appearance, of a cat?
Or just trade 'cat' for 'rat' as one of the forms to which an Imp can polymorph, and say that the default form is cat and not Imp. As per the description of Imp, its stats, aside from movement, would remain that of an Imp. Or are you looking for the familiar to have the stats, and not just the appearance, of a cat?
Your idea is more or less exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking of the cat having the imp stats like the other shapes in the shapechanger action description.
Well a cat has better movement than a rat, including a climbing speed, but if I were the DM, I'd let it go. Imps are so broken, this isn't going to make matters much worse. I might insist that it be a black cat.
Hi all!
I am playing a pact of the chain warlock for the first time, and I wanted to see what the community thought about a minor homebrew question. In particular, the way I have the toon flavored is that he has a cat that was transformed into a familiar, and it can now change shape. For obvious reasons mechanical reasons, one of the shapes the familiar/cat often takes is that of an imp.
I wonder if there are any serious mechanical, or other world breaking, problems others see with having the shapechanger ability of the imp allow the familiar to still be in imp form, but appear as a cat. That way, it wouldn't take a new cast of find familiar to have the familiar be in its 'home'.
What do y'all think?
Thanks for your time!
I don't see an issue. Given the familiar can turn invisible, its not giving it another ability to allow it to appear as a cat.
Or just trade 'cat' for 'rat' as one of the forms to which an Imp can polymorph, and say that the default form is cat and not Imp. As per the description of Imp, its stats, aside from movement, would remain that of an Imp. Or are you looking for the familiar to have the stats, and not just the appearance, of a cat?
Your idea is more or less exactly what I was thinking. I was thinking of the cat having the imp stats like the other shapes in the shapechanger action description.
Well a cat has better movement than a rat, including a climbing speed, but if I were the DM, I'd let it go. Imps are so broken, this isn't going to make matters much worse. I might insist that it be a black cat.
Decided to go with quasit, and replace the centipede. This would be a nerf; the cat has a slower climb speed. And the cat is an orange persian ;)
I figured that cats being creatures of chaos, a demon might more sense than a devil committed to law.