Find Familiar

DEER FAMILIAR

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Quote from Sennith13 >>

My player is trying to use Pact of the Chain Find Familiar to use magical items. Can Familiars even use items?

Depending on the Familiar (Imp, Sprite, Sphinx of Wonder) if it has the intelligence to do so than yes. But they also have thier own personal so it may not go the way your PC thinks it will go.

So using the senses of the familiar as a bonus action - does this mean you can now attack with your familiar's senses if your character had the blinded condition? 

Is there a way to give it arcana proficiency?

Remembe: when you are looking through the familiar's senses you are more "passenger" than "driver." You can communicate with your familiar and instruct it to do something, but it is still limited by its own intelligence. You can't, for example, go into your owl familiar and try to get it to write a message using its claws. Well you can try but getting it to understand can carry out your instructions would be nigh-impossible.

I don't think they can. Mimicking a sound is not the same as saying a word. Intent matters. 

HailRobonia's Home for Retired Familiars

Honestly they should have made familiars a generic/"templateable" creature. Select xyx options when you create it, and perhaps casting it at higher levels gives small additional abilities and increases HP slightly.

That way there are familiars other than owls and various "uh oh did this new CR 0 beast just become an overpowered familiar?" situations.

Yeah. It's not an "attack" action.

The way I usually see it is that this is really fine incense, created precisely for enchanting purposes, so it makes sense that a small quantity would cost that much. Similar thing with parchment to transcribe spells with, it is fancier therefore it costs more

Can the familiar be used to flank an enemy? Or be an ally for a rogue´s sneak attack?

Absolutely! Can even take the "help" action to give advantage too..

The newly published familiars for the Crooked Moon supplements are all CR 1 creatures. I haven't found an in module reason behind it. Are these now available for everyone who has the spell?

Possible, but it's not mentioned. 

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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Quote from Axamana >>

* - (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.