Enhanced Familiar

Requires having the find familiar spell.

This spell is cast in conjunction with the find familiar spell. Its material components replace the normal components of the underlying find familiar material components. You can cast find familiar as a ritual, but the Enhanced Familiar spell needs to be cast using a spell slot.

Your Enhanced Familiar gains the following features:

• Hit dice equal to your level in the class used to cast this spell.
• Your proficiency bonus increases are added to its to-hit, damage, and skill check modifiers.
• Your familiar can now take the attack action.

 When you cast this spell at higher levels (+25 gp additional material cost for each level upcast), for each spell level above 3rd, your familiar gains one of the following enhancements:

• 60 foot Darkvision.
• +30 feet to existing sense (Darkvision, Blindsight, Tremorsense, ...).
• +10 feet to movement (speed).
• Climb speed equal to 1/2 movement.
• Swim speed equal to 1/2 movement and water breathing.
• Crawling speed equal to 1/2 movement and air breathing (for water based familiars).
• +100 feet to communication and spell casting distance with your familiar.
• +3 to one stat to a max of 20 (can take once for each stat). Apply any stat modifier increase to the corresponding stat modifier value(s).

NOTES:

• This spell is NOT a ritual. It can not be learned by a Pack of the Tome Warlock with Book of Ancient Secrets invocation or a character with just the Ritual Caster feat. It can be learned by those sneaking, thieving Bards with their Magical Secrets  ability.
  • To be useful to Bards,  they will also need to have stolen to the original find familiar spell. If they acquired the original spell via the Magic Initiate Feat or levels in Wizard, it would be considered a Wizard spell, and the Enhanced Familiar spell they acquired via Magical Secrets would be considered a Bard spell. They wouldn't be able to cast both a Wizard and a Bard spell at the same time. NOTE: This is my Rules As Intended interpretation; as always, your DM can override this.
• It makes perfect sense to have this spell available to Pack of the Chain Warlocks as a 5th level Invocation.
  • Should also apply to their Extended Familiar Choices (Imp, Quasit, Sprite, and Pseudodragon).
  • Because Warlocks have an upper limit of 5th level spell slots available, it may make sense to allow two choices per upcast for Warlocks only.
  • Because Warlocks don't have control over what level they cast this spell at, if they don't supply the additional material, the spell's corresponding level is based on the value of material components actually used.
• It is perfectly legal to use the enhanced features to give your familiar darkvision and then extend its range using two levels of upcasting.
• This spell will NOT work with flock of familiars.