New Familiar Option: Myconid

[Power Word Caffeine]

Can we get a Tiny Myconid added to the list of available familiars, please? Thank you!

[Nymera]

Aren't myconids...intelligent, peaceful little humanoids(in shape, not in type)?

I think most goodly characters would see a myconid "familiar" as more of a slave than anything else.  :\  That might get a little dicey.

[SpacePope]

Adding new familiars has always been a non-starter when I've seen it suggested, as it'd need the dev staff to make a new creature for each level and CD support of animal companions/familiars is already kind of an afterthought.

[Power Word Caffeine]

Pixies are goodly critters who agree to be wizard familiars. No reason a myconid can't. Just sayin'...

[Nymera]

Oct 6, 2022 22:03:51 GMT -5 Power Word Caffeine said:

Pixies are goodly critters who agree to be wizard familiars. No reason a myconid can't. Just sayin'...

I completely forgot about the pixie, so, good point!

[Vincent07]

We will not be adding new familiars.  Each one added requires creation and balance of 30 creature templates, and as they only scale with the base Caster classes, not any PrCs, most will never see use.

[Epi]

I don't want to beat a dead horse or anything, but is it possible to just put a "skin" on a familiar, so at the base it's still a pixie or whatever? I swear I've seen that done.

[Fox²]

It is possible, but not something we have any intention on doing as any new familiars or companions we add we'd like them to have the correct statblocks.