A twist; their familiar is under a curse/polymorph spell and is not currently in its true form. At the moment it's a cat. When the curse is removed/spell ends? It's a (dum dum duuuummmmm) dog.
Give me some story context RogueB, are they just going to cast the spell and a familiar of your choice going to pop up? Do they have to actually have to seek out this familiar, is the familiar already aware of their future master?
My immediate thought is to play this out something like the way daemons work in the His Dark Materials. Have it be a magical being that grows and changes with the character, taking on their personality and developing physical traits that suit its master.
As to this creature's origins? Perhaps it's an outsider native to Limbo or another chaotic plane. Or the unusual hybrid offspring of different magical beasts. Or the reincarnated spirit of another creature, or perhaps even another druid who was a master of using wild shape.
Yes, give them a Tressym.
It's from the Storm King's Thunder adventure, but if you don't have that, the stats are trivially easy to locate online via google.
A twist; their familiar is under a curse/polymorph spell and is not currently in its true form. At the moment it's a cat. When the curse is removed/spell ends? It's a (dum dum duuuummmmm) dog.
Cheshire Cat. Base it off an imp in terms of stats, might be fun.
Not many low level CR cats in the manual unless you want some home brew ideas.
Give me some story context RogueB, are they just going to cast the spell and a familiar of your choice going to pop up? Do they have to actually have to seek out this familiar, is the familiar already aware of their future master?
My immediate thought is to play this out something like the way daemons work in the His Dark Materials. Have it be a magical being that grows and changes with the character, taking on their personality and developing physical traits that suit its master.
As to this creature's origins? Perhaps it's an outsider native to Limbo or another chaotic plane. Or the unusual hybrid offspring of different magical beasts. Or the reincarnated spirit of another creature, or perhaps even another druid who was a master of using wild shape.