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Player’s Handbook
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: Bat, Cat, Frog, Hawk, Lizard, Octopus, Owl, Rat, Raven, Spider, Weasel, or another Beast that has a Challenge Rating
of 0. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a Celestial, Fey, or Fiend (your choice) instead of a Beast. Your familiar acts
Monsters
Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse
Psychic Messenger. The swarm can use its sending spell to target someone familiar to a creature in telepathic contact with the swarm.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and
vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny rat. The swarm can’t regain hit points or gain temporary hit points.
Telepathic Shroud. The swarm is immune to any
Imp (Familiar Variant)
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Monsters
Monster Manual (2014)
Shapechanger. The imp can use its action to polymorph into a beast form that resembles a rat (speed 20 ft.), a raven (20 ft., fly 60 ft.), or a spider (20 ft., climb 20 ft.), or back into its true
. Magical darkness doesn't impede the imp's darkvision.
Magic Resistance. The imp has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects.
Familiar. The imp can enter into a contract to
Find Familiar
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat, raven, sea horse
, spider, or weasel. Appearing in an unoccupied space within range, the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form, though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice) instead of a beast.
Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
. Bookshelves are crowded with sheaves of parchment and strange-looking tomes.
Iarno has left his rat familiar here to watch for intruders. The rat shares a telepathic bond with its master, and it sends a
Phandelver’s Pact. The mace was lost when Wave Echo Cave and its mine vanished from history. (Characters might find the mace in part 4, “Wave Echo Cave.”) Developments Because Iarno and his rat familiar share a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: Bat, Cat, Frog, Hawk, Lizard, Octopus, Owl, Rat, Raven, Spider, Weasel, or another Beast that has a Challenge Rating
Find Familiar Level 1 Conjuration (Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour or Ritual
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (burning incense worth 10+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Morte’s Planar Parade
familiar to a creature in telepathic contact with the swarm.
Swarm. The swarm can occupy another creature’s space and vice versa, and the swarm can move through any opening large enough for a Tiny rat
Cranium Rat Squeakers The cranium rats squeakers of Sigil have no connection to the mind flayers that created their progenitors. Rather, these magical rodents cooperate with the residents of the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
) Duration: Instantaneous You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat
Find Familiar 1st-level conjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (10 gp worth of charcoal, incense, and herbs that must be consumed by fire in a brass brazier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: Bat, Cat, Frog, Hawk, Lizard, Octopus, Owl, Rat, Raven, Spider, Weasel, or another Beast that has a Challenge Rating
Find Familiar Level 1 Conjuration (Wizard) Casting Time: 1 hour or Ritual
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (burning incense worth 10+ GP, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
) Duration: Instantaneous You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes an animal form you choose: bat, cat, crab, frog (toad), hawk, lizard, octopus, owl, poisonous snake, fish (quipper), rat
Find Familiar 1st-level conjuration (ritual) Casting Time: 1 hour Range: 10 feet Components: V, S, M (10 gp worth of charcoal, incense, and herbs that must be consumed by fire in a brass brazier
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
31. Delvers’ Hall Wererat. A wererat named Sylvia Featherstone scours the hall in her giant rat form.
Statues. Cobweb-covered statues of dwarves stand atop 2-foot-high pedestals in alcoves. (One of
area 35. If captured, she takes every opportunity to try to escape. She wears no armor, carries no weapons, and has nothing of value on her. She is familiar with levels 1, 2, and 3 of Undermountain but lies about what’s there unless magically compelled to speak the truth.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual (2014)
darkvision 120 ft., passive Perception 11
Languages Infernal, Common
Challenge 1 (200 XP)
Shapechanger. The imp can use its action to polymorph into a beast form that resembles a rat (speed 20
or until its concentration ends (as if concentrating on a spell). Any equipment the imp wears or carries is invisible with it.
VARIANT: IMP FAMILIAR
Imps can be found in the service to mortal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft
Noteworthy Features Those familiar with Richemulot know the following facts: The Gnawing Plague, or simply “the Gnaws,” is a deadly, recurring ailment that afflicts Richemulot. Richemulot’s royal
cities contain an inexplicably large number of buildings, an amount greater than their highest populations would have ever warranted. Rat swarms prowl city streets like packs of dogs. RICHEMULOISE
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Infernal Machine Rebuild
following, making adjustments as necessary if Andras is not here: Two prisoners and a frantic rat lie strapped to tables, and are being worked on by a humanoid figure with the head of a snowy owl. Silver
“Poisons” in appendix C). The silver wires connect Francache to a lawful neutral female human bandit captain named Big Gadai (sister to the dead thief in area 6) and a normal rat. As Andras operates
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
Garloth’s rat familiar arrived to find the mausoleum open and grave robbers inside. They killed the rat, took the stone, and fled along with the skeletal remains of Grinda’s ancestors. Characters who
search the plundered crypts find neither the rat nor the stone, but they do find a clue left behind by one of the grave robbers (see “Crypt Clue” below). As the characters make their way out, Xanathar
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
take it by force (encounter 2, “Mistshore”). After the characters defeat these attackers, they learn that Grinda told her rat familiar to hide the stone in her family’s crypt in the City of the Dead
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monster Manual
, Deer, Frog, Hawk, Hyena, Lizard, Owl, Rat, Spider, Weasel 1/8 Blood Hawk, Flying Snake, Giant Rat, Giant Weasel, Goblin Minion, Kobold Warrior, Mastiff, Stirge, Twig Blight, Venomous Snake 1/4 Blink
Monsters CR Monsters 0 Frog, Lizard, Rat, Raven, Spider 1/8 Giant Rat, Kobold Warrior, Stirge, Venomous Snake 1/4 Bullywug Warrior, Constrictor Snake, Giant Frog, Giant Lizard, Giant Venomous Snake
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
the stone for herself. She now realizes that decision was a mistake. Grinda tells the characters that she gave the stone to her rat familiar and told the creature to stash it in her family’s mausoleum
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
Walking a Different Path Acquisitions Incorporated barbarians walk a different path than their kin of the wild lands. Or, more precisely, they walk familiar paths in unique and novel ways. Path of
creatures. Totem Animal Urban Replacements
Bear Otyugh, giant spider
Eagle Crow, flying snake
Wolf Giant rat, giant fire beetle
Path of the Zealot You might not be particularly
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Lost Mine of Phandelver
12. Glasstaff’s Quarters If the characters approach this room through the secret passage from area 7, they can surprise the leader of the Redbrands—Iarno “Glasstaff” Albrek. Otherwise, his rat
familiar warns him of any who approach through area 11, and he flees before the characters arrive. The walls of this bedchamber are covered with drapes of scarlet cloth. The furnishings include a small
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
beholder’s lair, and that they recently discovered a secret staircase in the Castle Ward sewers leading down to it (area X1). She has one of the awakened rats lead them there. This rat has an Intelligence
score of 10 and can speak Common. Zhentarim Characters who are members of the Zhentarim can approach Yagra Stonefist at the Yawning Portal (see “Familiar Faces”). She recently learned about a “back door
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Rating of 1/4 and that lack a Fly Speed (see appendix B for stat block options). The Rat, Riding Horse, Spider, and Wolf are recommended. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one of your
cast the Find Familiar spell without Material components. When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is Fey and disappears when you finish a Long Rest. Level 3: Druid Subclass You gain a Druid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
Rating of 1/4 and that lack a Fly Speed (see appendix B for stat block options). The Rat, Riding Horse, Spider, and Wolf are recommended. Whenever you finish a Long Rest, you can replace one of your
cast the Find Familiar spell without Material components. When you cast the spell in this way, the familiar is Fey and disappears when you finish a Long Rest. Level 3: Druid Subclass You gain a Druid
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
put out. The space hamster looks remarkably like a normal hamster. It has the statistics of a rat but no attacks (and is worth 0 XP). It has made a nice lair for itself in the walls of the ship but
familiar constellations and unfamiliar planets.
Grooves. Grooves in the middle of the floor suggest that a piece of furniture once rested there.
Characters who examine the grooves and succeed on an
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a2
level (4 slots): color spray, shield, silent image
2nd level (2 slots): hold person, shatter
Snurrevin has a familiar, a rat named Browngnaw, that hides in the shadows near the unlit forge to the
, then join the other duergar in area 39. In combat, Snurrevin might cast shocking grasp through his hidden familiar, and he might use silent image to confound enemies with realistic-seeming threats
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
previous owner burned into its umber cover. This book contains the following spells: charm person, find familiar, identify, magic missile, sleep. Spellbook 3 is bound in scaly black reptile hide and
necrotic damage. A remove curse spell or similar effect ends the curse on the creature. D14. Hungry Rat An ordinary rat scurries around this room, looking for scraps of food. If the characters use a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Storm Lord;
Consign to our foes Tammeraut’s fate.
The beginning of the verse will look familiar to characters who visit the belfry (area 24). See that area for more information. A character who
by the slaughter are skulking in this room. Because the drowned ones removed the corpses, the rat swarms have found little to eat. They stream from beneath broken furniture and from behind partitions
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
releases arena combatants from area X7. Ten human bandits and five bugbears (all members of the Xanathar Guild) guzzle ale and heckle combatants from the bleachers, while two goblins serve up salted rat
the beholder is beginning to question. The gazer is itself disloyal. A wizard character can befriend it with a successful DC 11 Charisma (Persuasion) check and turn it into their familiar with a find






