12/7/2023 0 Comments 5e awaken familiar![]() In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. Your familiar acts independently of you, but it always obeys your commands. 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. The best bet is to simply let the awakened animal companion (aka the GM, who now controls it) make its own decisions.Īwaken is a better thing to cast on non-animal companions in other words.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. but chances are good an awakened animal companion will be too powerful for that, frankly. And yes, you'd need Leadership for it to be a cohort. The new HD affect hp and BAB and saves as normal. Yup it retains everything but would lose the things that depend on that link with you. So my A/C retains everytthing (feats,skills etc) except the link ,share spells etc? Does these new HD count only at HP or at BAB,saves etc?And i need the leadership feat to take him as cohort?i thought the spell "provide" that feat and i only had to calculate the leadership score! Whether or not it can later gain class levels, and when it gains its 1st class level, is up to your GM. The awakened animal companion cohort gains the +2 HD as normal per the spell. ![]() In any event, you would be able to gain a replacement animal companion of the appropriate level. If you take Leadership, your GM might let you take the awakened animal companion as a cohort. It's just a friend or an rival, depending on how you treated it up to that point. The animal companion becomes a magical beast and retains its stats it gained as your animal companion, but is no longer your animal companion. ![]() How the spell awaken acctually works if i want to cast it on my animal companion? how doe his level as cohort progress? it will start with 1 lvl class when i cast the spell or 2hd animal and start to take class levels as the party takes xp? You can review this post by James Jacobs that gives his point of view on how Awaken works on an Animal Companion and its use as a Cohort afterwards. If the latter, the cohort's effective character level will be lower so you'll add more class levels to obtain a cohort of appropriate strength. If you're looking to take the animal on as a cohort I'd ask the GM whether they will return to standard ape or base animal companion ape. This is because it's really weird for the animal companion to become stronger once it's no longer bonded to you. Now, because base animal companions are weird in the first place (a level 1 tiger animal companion is much weaker than a normal tiger) I could see the familiar either turning into an awakened normal tiger, or the awakened version of a 1st level tiger animal companion. Once it stops being an animal companion it stops getting all the bonuses from being an animal companion. Even if you have the Improved Familiar feat, which allows you to bond with a creature whose default state before becoming a familiar is "magical beast" you still can't by RAW have an awakened animal familiar because the restriction is separate from the type change (though a GM might allow it since an awakened hawk isn't that different or that much more powerful than say a pseudodragon). In addition, it can't serve as an animal companion - or a familiar, despite the fact that familiars are magical beasts. An awakened animal can't serve as an animal companion, familiar, or special mount. Its type becomes magical beast (augmented animal). Awaken wrote: An awakened animal gets 3d6 Intelligence, +1d3 Charisma, and +2 HD.
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