my brother got a pseudodragon familiar halfway through session 1.

what a cool little guy

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It is now my mission to find and tame one of these majestic creatures.

 Thinking of making a baguette psudodragin

How small do I have to be to ride one?

Cousins to wyverns?

I've had one of these for my wizard, and I had the most amazing fun with them
One of the aspects I really liked was that she had the mentality and ego of a true red dragon, so she'd constantly get the party in all sorts of amusing situations
one time she got offended when a sphynx had riddles for all players, but not my psuedodragon, so she demanded to get a riddle as well, despite the consequence of failing even a single riddle would be eternal imprisonment for the entire party.
so yeah, fun times were had. Absolutely adorable things, definitely recommended for people who like dragons.

Common in Toril, rare or extremely rare in Krynn!

Ironic, from the World of Dragons, that a pseudodragon should be so rare, but it is!  There are only 4 places on Krynn they can be obtained:

1) The Dragon Isles,  2) Forest of Lahue, 3)  Darken Wood,  4) or a gateway to the Feywild.  (Hint: there's one in the small park in Kalaman, and a roving gateway in Wayreth Forest.)

Over 20 years ago, my dungeon master took pity on me (I kept getting hit with arrows every single time our party stepped into a room in a dungeon, and worse, I put on Boots of Dancing!) and he had Fafnir fly out of the woods to rescue me from a hungry bear--a mother bear, protecting her cubs!  By the time I wandered out of the wood, my white robes were covered with MUD!  

Mushu can never be tamed beahahahahah

My DM approved these as a part of my character build. I found two eggs as a child and hatched them, then raised them. They are the only beings I trust and can find each other anywhere and communicate with me, even over long distances. It's my favorite part of my character. 

 Deketing

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Would it be possible to play one of these in a campaign? IDKY but it sounds like it could be fun to play as one of these little guys. I just don't know where to start in making it possible. Something It probably should be awoken though, trying to translate basic feelings into a full campaign is such a pain.

Have a PC (or sidekick) with beast speech?

Or get beast speech yourself and have a pseudodragon sidekick.

If you play a warlock you can get it as a summon, and there is an Eldritch invocation that gives you beast speech.

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Is it just me or does this kind of meh compared with other options for pact of the chain warlocks?

 I know what you mean - they and the sprite look much cooler (and more appropriate to my dragon ancestry sorlock fairy) than the imp, but I'm still tempted to go for the imp for its extra utility.  It isn't exactly lore breaking as the imp can still be fey (for that matter the sprite can be a fiend at the player's choice) but my preference would be an imp skinned as a pseudodragon.

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Could you harvest pseudo dragon venom  and use it as a weapon coating

 I've read elsewhere that you can, but they hate it.  So a standard familiar would likely leave you, and it wouldn't be appropriate for a good aligned PotC warlock.

Someone pointed out that in the latter case you could summon a sprite and get them to give you their arrows, which work similarly.  May be game breaking if you find a way to move the poison to a bigger arrow though 

 cool

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you could be some kind of ghost/parasite possessing one?

I've told my players there's gonna be a dragon fight at the end of my campaign... it's this lil dude :)

very small but also very feisty 10/10

i am! it's pretty cool

Can anyone tell me why it's called a Pseudodragon?