This is going to cover every companion. This includes: familiar (find familiar spell), beast companion (beast master), iron defender (battle smith), alchemical humonculous (alchemist - I know that they don't have it anymore, but if they did) etc. Here it goes for me: Iron defender; I make it a small rhino, or a dragon. Beast companion; I usually take wolf or panther, and sometimes re-flavour it to be a similar animal. Familiar; I like an owl, or a weasel. Alchemical humonculous; I like flavouring it as a pumpkin, cauldron or even a small animal that carries potions.
Please tell me yours!
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'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
Currently, I have a sprite familiar with my "Pact of the Chain" Warlock.
I have named him Lemli (a shortened version of "lemon-lime" Sprite, though that isn't their actual full name), and he has an outrageous French accent and looks & acts like a jaded mercenary.
I had a plan for a College of Valor or Sword Bard who is a Viking skald, and they summon a direwolf who is the future Fenrir, the bringer of Ragnarok.
On a more light-hearted note, I plan on creating a bard or wizard with the "Tiny Servant" spell, who uses it to animate a large beer mug, naming them "Stein".
They will use it to secretly steal beer from the bartender when they aren't looking. ; )
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
Lol in my previous campaign my goblin bard's mount was a goat named Thaco... although there wasn't any real reflavoring there, as the mount was a normal goat with goat stats.
I'm still working on a battlesmith artificer for an upcoming campaign. My plan is for his Steel Defender to be, essentially... a mechanical mimic named Chester. Just a walking treasure chest that unfolds into a tinkerer's workbench and attacks by popping open and a boxing glove on a spring swinging out.
When my Plague Doctor Alchemist (click the link in my signature) still had his homunculus, it was in the shape of his childhood pet, a Cavoodle, but an undulating bubble of alchemical greens and yellows shaped around a rudimentary skeleton of alchemist tools and clamps. Her name was Thiwee and my PC would ask her opinion on everything first, the gag being that Hjalmar speaks with a lisp. Her stat block actions were further themed as follows:
Thiwee's tail would spin like a chopper for her to hover around everywhere, flicking little flecks of goo everywhere that'd dry up seconds later, like antiseptic gel.
She'd lick an PC and nuzzle into them, leaving behind a glob of antiseptic gel like residue that absorbs quickly and they'd gain 2d6+5 temp HP.
Thiwee would sneeze on someone, rub her own nose with her paw and then pant with big smile and dangling little yellow tongue and they'd get advantage on 5 ability checks of their choice just because of the sheer cuteness of what had just happened.
She'd bite down and tug at a PC's collar and they'd begin to float for their 10ft of flying.
When the time called for action, Thiwee would fly over head and pee on the target, doing 1d6+3 acid damage.
We all miss our little party pupper. Coincidentally, she got squished by a feywild weeping treant and I had intended to remake her on our next short rest, but the official Artificer dropped between our sessions and we were more reliant on other infusions at that point. So we buried her little skeleton under a beautiful natural fountain in the cemetery of the Summer Court where we had some favour. It was very sweet.
When Hjalmar retires from adventuring (if he makes it to the end of the current campaign), he will open up a Wondrous Item store and bring Thiwee back again as his companion once more.
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Hjalmar Gunderson, Vuman Alchemist Plague Doctor in a HB Campaign, Post Netherese Invasion Cormyr (lvl20 retired) Godfrey, Autognome Butler in Ghosts of Saltmarsh into Spelljammer Grímr Skeggisson, Goliath Rune Knight in Rime of the Frostmaiden DM of two HB campaigns set in the same world.
I'm tried my best not to mention using sweet paprika and dried basil to flavor companions and I lost.
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Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
This is going to cover every companion. This includes: familiar (find familiar spell), beast companion (beast master), iron defender (battle smith), alchemical humonculous (alchemist - I know that they don't have it anymore, but if they did) etc. Here it goes for me: Iron defender; I make it a small rhino, or a dragon. Beast companion; I usually take wolf or panther, and sometimes re-flavour it to be a similar animal. Familiar; I like an owl, or a weasel. Alchemical humonculous; I like flavouring it as a pumpkin, cauldron or even a small animal that carries potions.
Please tell me yours!
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
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My grung ranger has a giant blue crab mount he treats like an SUV.
Over the weekend I crafted a giant crab mount for my nolzurs mini to ride on...if only I could play a game locally!
Currently, I have a sprite familiar with my "Pact of the Chain" Warlock.
I have named him Lemli (a shortened version of "lemon-lime" Sprite, though that isn't their actual full name), and he has an outrageous French accent and looks & acts like a jaded mercenary.
I had a plan for a College of Valor or Sword Bard who is a Viking skald, and they summon a direwolf who is the future Fenrir, the bringer of Ragnarok.
On a more light-hearted note, I plan on creating a bard or wizard with the "Tiny Servant" spell, who uses it to animate a large beer mug, naming them "Stein".
They will use it to secretly steal beer from the bartender when they aren't looking. ; )
Love these ideas. Thanks guys.
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
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My owl, Thaco, is fluffed as a Blue Falcon. It's a bit of an inside joke with my group.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue_falcon
Any time an unfathomably powerful entity sweeps in and offers godlike rewards in return for just a few teensy favors, it’s a scam. Unless it’s me. I’d never lie to you, reader dearest.
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Lol in my previous campaign my goblin bard's mount was a goat named Thaco... although there wasn't any real reflavoring there, as the mount was a normal goat with goat stats.
I'm still working on a battlesmith artificer for an upcoming campaign. My plan is for his Steel Defender to be, essentially... a mechanical mimic named Chester. Just a walking treasure chest that unfolds into a tinkerer's workbench and attacks by popping open and a boxing glove on a spring swinging out.
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Battlesmith artificer named Dora the Explorer. Her iron defender is monkey shaped named... you guessed it Boots.
2 things:
dora gets a lot scarier when she can make +1 daggers
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When my Plague Doctor Alchemist (click the link in my signature) still had his homunculus, it was in the shape of his childhood pet, a Cavoodle, but an undulating bubble of alchemical greens and yellows shaped around a rudimentary skeleton of alchemist tools and clamps. Her name was Thiwee and my PC would ask her opinion on everything first, the gag being that Hjalmar speaks with a lisp. Her stat block actions were further themed as follows:
We all miss our little party pupper. Coincidentally, she got squished by a feywild weeping treant and I had intended to remake her on our next short rest, but the official Artificer dropped between our sessions and we were more reliant on other infusions at that point. So we buried her little skeleton under a beautiful natural fountain in the cemetery of the Summer Court where we had some favour. It was very sweet.
When Hjalmar retires from adventuring (if he makes it to the end of the current campaign), he will open up a Wondrous Item store and bring Thiwee back again as his companion once more.
Hjalmar Gunderson, Vuman Alchemist Plague Doctor in a HB Campaign, Post Netherese Invasion Cormyr (lvl20 retired)
Godfrey, Autognome Butler in Ghosts of Saltmarsh into Spelljammer
Grímr Skeggisson, Goliath Rune Knight in Rime of the Frostmaiden
DM of two HB campaigns set in the same world.
I'm tried my best not to mention using sweet paprika and dried basil to flavor companions and I lost.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
😂😂 They tastier with chili powder.
'The Cleverness of mushrooms always surprises me!' - Ivern Bramblefoot.
I'll worldbuild for your DnD games!
Just a D&D enjoyer, check out my fiverr page if you need any worldbuilding done for ya!