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#1 Direach Sep 06, 2014 20:32:21	I thought warlocks serving Great Old Ones should have a special weird familiar of their own, so I wrote this up. Your feedback is welcome. If you want to borrow this for your own game, please feel free to do so.   Formless Servitors are most often encountered as the familiars of warlocks who serve Great Old Ones. These malevolent creatures are extensions of their unknowable patron, bestowed with a dim, wicked intelligence and will. When at rest, a formless servitor appears as a featureless sphere of glossy black, cold and slightly sticky to the touch. When in motion, the entity is a seething mass of black protoplasm, constantly extruding and absorbing eyes, mouths, and lashing pseudopods. They never sleep, and make excellent scouts and sentries. If slain, they crumble into a foul-smelling black powder.   Formless Servitor Tiny aberration, neutral evil Armor Class 13 Hit Points 13 (3d4+6) Speed 30 ft., climb 30 ft. STR 8 (-1) DEX 17 (+3) CON 14 (+2) INT 9 (-1) WIS 13 (+1) CHA 6 (-2)   Skills Perception +4, Stealth +5 Damage Resistances acid, cold, fire; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons. Condition Immunities blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, prone Senses blindsight 60 ft. (blind beyond this radius), passive Perception 13 Languages Understands Common and Dark Speech, but cannot speak. Challenge 1 (200 XP)   Limited Telepathy. The formless servitor can magically transmit simple messages and images to any creature within 100 feet of it that can understand a language. This form of telepathy doesn’t allow the receiving creature to telepathically respond.   Spider Climb. The formless servitor can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.   Amorphous. The formless servitor can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.   Actions Multiattack: The formless servitor makes two attacks with its pseudopods.   Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage.
#2 Fralex Sep 07, 2014 0:24:26	I was actually considering just allowing a flumph to be a warlock familiar. Low CR, patron-appropriate abilities, a great scout that's a bit bigger than other choices but completely immune to any divination spell that might allow enemies to locate it, and the ability to make someone reek horribly once per day; seems like it's pretty good as a familiar but not overpowered.   But then again, I try to work flumphs into everything.
#3 Mechatarrasque Sep 07, 2014 13:25:12	I agree the lack of an obvious G.O.O. familiar is odd for the warlock.  The flumph seems like a good choice, or, if there is a small ooze in the Monster Manual.  As a DM, I think I would be willing to let the warlock have anything CR 1 or less as a familiar.