Basically title. I'll elaborate. I know old find familiar used to give you find familiar plus the option to cast it as a ritual. Easy enough.
The 2024 edition however, states that you can cast it as a magic action without expending a spell slot. Moreover, a few YT channels have said that pact of the chain warlocks now get free find familiar, but I haven't been able to find any relevant quotes. So in a nutshell:
The "as a magic action" part implies that I can summon my familiar with only an action (6 seconds), as opposed to the 1 hour casting time stated in the spell?
I'd assume I still have to burn the 10g worth of incense, or does it allow me to waive that cost?
Basically title. I'll elaborate. I know old find familiar used to give you find familiar plus the option to cast it as a ritual. Easy enough.
The 2024 edition however, states that you can cast it as a magic action without expending a spell slot. Moreover, a few YT channels have said that pact of the chain warlocks now get free find familiar, but I haven't been able to find any relevant quotes. So in a nutshell:
The "as a magic action" part implies that I can summon my familiar with only an action (6 seconds), as opposed to the 1 hour casting time stated in the spell?
I'd assume I still have to burn the 10g worth of incense, or does it allow me to waive that cost?
A couple of details.
1. It actually offers 5 new familiar choices in addition to the 3 we had, which is cool 2. You still have to burn the incense 3. I didn't look closely at this part, but if it says it's a Magic action, then yeah, it'd be down to an action to cast 4. Pact of the Chain is now an Invocation, meaning it takes one of those up 5. You also get more Invocations at every level, meaning even with point 4, you're still better off on that front
I've been looking at that one when I can (don't own the book, but a friend of mine got a copy) and the changes to Warlock look pretty cool overall.
Oh yeah, the additional options look pretty neat, tho I'm still undecided if any of them beats the imp as the better overall choice. Would have to playtest it a bit more.
The incense part I assumed it was still needed, dunno where those guys got it from.
I'm still undecided whether or not it was a good idea to turn the pacts into invocations, as the power creep might get a little hectic, but I guess we will find out.
Basically title. I'll elaborate. I know old find familiar used to give you find familiar plus the option to cast it as a ritual. Easy enough.
The 2024 edition however, states that you can cast it as a magic action without expending a spell slot. Moreover, a few YT channels have said that pact of the chain warlocks now get free find familiar, but I haven't been able to find any relevant quotes. So in a nutshell:
A couple of details.
1. It actually offers 5 new familiar choices in addition to the 3 we had, which is cool
2. You still have to burn the incense
3. I didn't look closely at this part, but if it says it's a Magic action, then yeah, it'd be down to an action to cast
4. Pact of the Chain is now an Invocation, meaning it takes one of those up
5. You also get more Invocations at every level, meaning even with point 4, you're still better off on that front
I've been looking at that one when I can (don't own the book, but a friend of mine got a copy) and the changes to Warlock look pretty cool overall.
Oh yeah, the additional options look pretty neat, tho I'm still undecided if any of them beats the imp as the better overall choice. Would have to playtest it a bit more.
The incense part I assumed it was still needed, dunno where those guys got it from.
I'm still undecided whether or not it was a good idea to turn the pacts into invocations, as the power creep might get a little hectic, but I guess we will find out.
I don't suspect it'll affect power creep. It basically just means you can choose not to get a pact boon for an additional invocation instead.