Find Familiar

Best part about this spell is that its now an Magic Action if you play a warlock with Pact of The Chain.

Does it take the stats of the beast or is it just their form? 

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Does it take the stats of the beast or is it just their form? 

It uses all of the stats of the beast form except the creature type, as stated in the spell description:

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.

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* - (burning incense worth 10+ GP, which the spell consumes)

A block of incense is worth 1 silver......does this mean you need 100 blocks of incense to cast this spell?

A spell focus only covers material costs of spells that are NOT consumed by the spell, which this spell does consume. 

The only listing on D&D beyond for incense is that link I put up or the actual block of incense page, which doesn't even have a cost. Do most DM's ignore this?

Best I can tell the cost of incense hasn't really been addressed in the new rules. At the moment my only solution is to allow players to "buy" or make incense, which we add as a custom item on the character sheet, using the cost override feature to set it's value, and use a quantity of them in 10gp chunks. This makes it easy to just take one off the sheet when they cast the spell

I think Psy-Dragonlings should be an option.

If the familiar delivers a Concentration spell, who's concentration does the spell use: Caster or Familiar?  Summon a spider familiar use to cast Enhance Ability and have it sit on your shoulder.  Then cast second concentration spell?  Never have to worry about making Concentration Saves?

Cleric that takes Magic Initiate (Wizard) origin feat.

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If the familiar delivers a Concentration spell, who's concentration does the spell use: Caster or Familiar?  Summon a spider familiar use to cast Enhance Ability and have it sit on your shoulder.  Then cast second concentration spell?  Never have to worry about making Concentration Saves?

Cleric that takes Magic Initiate (Wizard) origin feat.

It uses the caster's Concentration, as the caster is the one casting the spell.

I'm not sure how Enhance Ability helps here. Or did you just mean that as an example of a Concentration spell?

For the longest time I thought a brazier was a brassier. 

How long does it take to cast this spell

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How long does it take to cast this spell

One hour. This is stated in the spell description under "casting time". If cast as a ritual, it takes an extra ten minutes, for a total of seventy minutes.

Druids have a special feature that lets them cast it as an action, and Warlocks can choose an Invocation option called "Pact of the Chain" that allows the same.

I think a commonly overlooked animal for both Find Familiar and Wild Shape is the Baboon, which is my go-to when I need a beast with hands.  Its Pack Tactics feature makes it especially useful in combat via Wild Shape or Pact of the Chain, seeing as how its hands lets it use weapons.  Do note that Baboons conjured via Find Familiar don't have weapon proficiencies though, but advantage from Pack Tactics can make up for it.

Sprite and Skeleton familiars are proficient with the weapons listed in their stat blocks.  Weapons conjured along with a familiar won't disappear when the familiar does, making a Skeleton familiar a cheaper way of obtaining a Shortbow, which otherwise typically costs 25 gold.  Giving the Skeleton a second Shortsword doesn't let it attack with both, since it can't use its bonus action to attack.  Familiars can be equipped or reequipped with magical items, but bear in mind that they can't attack without special features (like Pact of the Chain), and still have when they can attack be very limited in those cases.

Skeleton familiars aren't from any living creature and aren't undead.  Due to being one of the forms that is immune to exhaustion, Skeleton familiars do not need to eat, drink, sleep, nor breathe, despite not being undead.

The spirit used to form the familiar does not come out of nowhere, and is a preexisting Celestial, Fey, or Fiend spirit.  When used in conjunction with Pact of the Chain, a Celestial Sphinx of Wonder, a Fey Sprite, a Fiend Imp, or a Fiend Quasit may, in fact, be in their true form.

Casting Find Familiar via the method described in druid's Wild Companion feature always makes the familiar a Fey, regardless of what creature type it was before or what form it takes.

The familiar does not disappear upon the caster's death.

There's nothing about the Find Familiar spell that gives the conjured creatures any supernatural traits beyond the ones listed.  Unless otherwise stated in the stat block (see Skeleton), they do not have immunity to exhaustion from suffocation, starvation, dehydration, nor sleep deprivation.  This suggests that they retain all biological functions of the form they've taken.  This is noteworthy in three particular scenarios.  First of all, a Hyena familiar is viable for the Gnoll Consumption Ritual, but the resulting fiendish Gnoll birthed from the hyena's transformation is not a familiar nor under the caster's control.  Second of all, 2d12 hours after a familiar is conjured as, or takes the form of, a Slaad Tadpole, it will transform from the Slaad Tadpole familiar into a real Blue Slaad, no longer under the control of the caster, making it a risky or chaotic form for the familiar.  Finally, if a form so permits, the familiar may be capable of reproduction, useful for plot purposes, with the resulting offspring being descended from a Celestial, Fey, or Fiend.

If the caster dies, does the familiar disappear?

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If the caster dies, does the familiar disappear?

No.

Wow.... this is so good for some game breaking fights...

^This is why Wizards needs to stop "simplifying" the language used in their spells.

So two questions about this spell that I have:

1.  The rule for ritual spells is that they take 10 minutes longer to cast then normal.  Since this already takes an extended time period of an hour, is that already built into the time and this can only be cast as a ritual/not consume a spell slot?

2.  Can the familiar stick around indefinitely if there is no damage dealt to it?