101 familiars you would have been better off without
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1. A common garden slug
2. A curious basalisk
3. Fluffy, the queen's dearly loved and highly prized cat
Chet Tidwell,(tidwell@quark.phys.andrews.edu)
4. Giant Garden slug
5. Giant War Dog in Heat
Brian n36ia@pnet16.cts.com (Et3 Francis)
. Mold (any type)
7. Green Slime (No boy! Down! Don't touch my leg.... *squish*)
scythe@stein2.u.washington.edu (The Grim Reaper)
8. Rot Grub
9. Giant Cockroach
10. Intellect Devourer
11. Ear Seeker
arxt@quads.uchicago.edu (Dave Palmer)
12. Disenchanter
aevans@nmt.edu (Alex Evans)
13. Haddock.
14. Dormouse.
15. Penguin.
16. Flea.
17. Bee.
jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (J.V.Williams)
18. Smurf
19. Skunk
20. Rust Monster (Your familiar ate WHAT!)
21. Disenchanter Beast (Your familiar did WHAT!!!!!)
22. Trapper, Mimic (Here Fluffy, dang it, where is that mangy beast?)
23. Bookworm.
(Dang, Hungry again? ,<looking closely> Fluffy,
have you been at my Libram of Ineffable Darkness
again? Why are your eyes glowing?)
24. Wil-o-wisp (Fluffy, fetch my shoes, dammit!)
mehawk@agora.rain.com (Michael Sandy)
25. Juggernaut (Your familiar rolled over WHAT!!!)
26. Giant Centipede
mlandaue@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael C Landauer)
27. The ex-apprentice of the wizard on the otherside of the street. (Why horrible?
Look in one of the other lists :)
richard@cs.vu.nl (Berwald Richard)
28. "You have developed a strong empathic link to a small blob of surprisingly
intelligent green slime." :-)
The best bit: He can't kill it, 'cause it's his familliar. And he's got to feed it, and
it grows every time he feeds it, so this is soon going to be a er, sticky situation.
dant@cs.utexas.edu (Dan Alexander Thompson)
29. Tarrasque (Your Familliar ate What? Waterdeep?)
HC61@lafibm.lafayette.edu (HC61000)
30. Red or Gold dragon 'Ah cant remembah the last time ah got an experience point... '
esmorodi@prism.poly.edu (Elliot Smorodinsky)
31. How about a Magebane?
s892804@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU (Robert Winkel)
32. Chaos Ball. (Has to be fed magic items or party members......)
jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (J.V.Williams)
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Draco.
jvw@dcs.warwick.ac.uk
Here's something to add to your list of "101 familiars you would be better
off without:"
A wicker basket ("Well, it used to be a treant until my apprentice needed
some firewood")
Use it if you want (hey, it might even be good enough to add to your
apprentice jokes).
Wyatt ("They call me Mister X in my part of town")