Alright, so I want to build a Eldritch knight with the find familiar ability due to my background with owls for this campaign. But im new to dnd and only have been playing 3 months with only 2 other prior games played and both being full out fighters. (eldritch knight is to help dip my feet in spellcasting).
If I was to get find familiar when i become an eldritch knight do i need to have the materials since i typically only cast abjuration and evocation spells? ive researched and not one post i have seen when looking for this says anything.
Also the awaken invocation for the familiar. Does it need me to have to know find familiar or is it kind of like i get find familiar from the invocation?
Yes, you need the components. A component pouch does the trick for most spells unless there is a material component that is consumable, i.e. the spell consumes it when the spell is cast. It will say so in the spell description. In the case of Find Familiar, it requires a 10gp component that is consumed on casting.
What is this invocation you're talking about? There is an Awaken but invocations are a warlock thing.
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That is not the real Eldritch Knight. That is someone's--possibly your DM's--homebrew Eldritch Knight variant. If it was the real Eldritch Knight, that link would not be able to legally exist.
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This is a very homebrew version of the Eldritch Knight, which seems to mingle a little bit of Warlock in there. Assuming your DM pointed you to it, you should probably ask said DM about details.
The official Eldritch Knight is in page 74 of the Player's Handbook (or here), and gets no Eldritch Invocations at all.
Generally speaking, if a spell requires Material components, you need to provide them, unless you have a trait that says otherwise. A spell pouch or an Arcane Focus (like a Staff, Wand, or Orb - or, indeed, your bonded weapon in the custom version of the class) allows you to ignore material components that have no cost, but Find Familiar does have a cost attached, so you normally need to provide those materials anyway.
In your case, however, with your custom version of the class, the Awaken Familiar invocation allows you to cast Find Familiar without a material component, so if you have that invocation you should be fine. That invocation allows you to cast Find Familiar, by the way, even if you don't know the spell, once per day.
Thank you, i didnt even know it was a homebrew version. But no i was just researching into the invocations and stuff and that was one of the top 3 for me. Now i know. The brazier though could it just be a bronze bowl with 3 sticks tied to it on top of a fire because from what ive seen on posts its a fluff item and not actual in the player manual, besides the spells i mean. Im asking because my character revolves around having an owl and since im a fighter and i do want to dip my feet in spellcasting slowly so i chose to be an eldritch knight. (we havnt become lvl 3 yet but i am a fighter)
Alright, so I want to build a Eldritch knight with the find familiar ability due to my background with owls for this campaign. But im new to dnd and only have been playing 3 months with only 2 other prior games played and both being full out fighters. (eldritch knight is to help dip my feet in spellcasting).
If I was to get find familiar when i become an eldritch knight do i need to have the materials since i typically only cast abjuration and evocation spells? ive researched and not one post i have seen when looking for this says anything.
Also the awaken invocation for the familiar. Does it need me to have to know find familiar or is it kind of like i get find familiar from the invocation?
Yes, you need the components. A component pouch does the trick for most spells unless there is a material component that is consumable, i.e. the spell consumes it when the spell is cast. It will say so in the spell description. In the case of Find Familiar, it requires a 10gp component that is consumed on casting.
What is this invocation you're talking about? There is an Awaken but invocations are a warlock thing.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
― Oscar Wilde.
doesnt the eldritch knight able to learn the awoken familiar invocation?
from this link it gives a list of invocations.
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This is a very homebrew version of the Eldritch Knight, which seems to mingle a little bit of Warlock in there. Assuming your DM pointed you to it, you should probably ask said DM about details.
The official Eldritch Knight is in page 74 of the Player's Handbook (or here), and gets no Eldritch Invocations at all.
Generally speaking, if a spell requires Material components, you need to provide them, unless you have a trait that says otherwise. A spell pouch or an Arcane Focus (like a Staff, Wand, or Orb - or, indeed, your bonded weapon in the custom version of the class) allows you to ignore material components that have no cost, but Find Familiar does have a cost attached, so you normally need to provide those materials anyway.
In your case, however, with your custom version of the class, the Awaken Familiar invocation allows you to cast Find Familiar without a material component, so if you have that invocation you should be fine. That invocation allows you to cast Find Familiar, by the way, even if you don't know the spell, once per day.
Thank you, i didnt even know it was a homebrew version. But no i was just researching into the invocations and stuff and that was one of the top 3 for me. Now i know. The brazier though could it just be a bronze bowl with 3 sticks tied to it on top of a fire because from what ive seen on posts its a fluff item and not actual in the player manual, besides the spells i mean. Im asking because my character revolves around having an owl and since im a fighter and i do want to dip my feet in spellcasting slowly so i chose to be an eldritch knight. (we havnt become lvl 3 yet but i am a fighter)