In one of my campaigns one of my players has a cute little bird familiar. I had a idea the other day of a fun side quest for my party would be to kidnap his familiar and basically create a rescue/hostage mission. But then i remembered that you can dismiss familiars then just recast the spell which would just ruin the entire quest. Is it possible at all to kidnap a familiar in a way that they cant just be resummoned?
You could have a spell placed on the familiar that means it can't be dismissed. Or maybe you could have the familiar put in a lead-lined cage meaning it can't be dismissed. Basically, you'd need to yada yada and hand wave it.
I would imagine the player is going to be pretty disappointed though if you do hand wave it away.
In one of my campaigns one of my players has a cute little bird familiar. I had a idea the other day of a fun side quest for my party would be to kidnap his familiar and basically create a rescue/hostage mission. But then i remembered that you can dismiss familiars then just recast the spell which would just ruin the entire quest. Is it possible at all to kidnap a familiar in a way that they cant just be resummoned?
Rules as written, probably not.
You could have a spell placed on the familiar that means it can't be dismissed. Or maybe you could have the familiar put in a lead-lined cage meaning it can't be dismissed. Basically, you'd need to yada yada and hand wave it.
I would imagine the player is going to be pretty disappointed though if you do hand wave it away.
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Dimensional shackles is actually a really nice solution i like that thank you.
Bag of holding? It would have possible future consequences, but sending the familiar to an extra-dimensional space might do the trick.
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