Un-find Familiar?
Permidion_Stark
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Is there a way to dismiss your familiar once you have found one? I know I can just leave it in my backpack but I would quite like to get rid of it because it feels like its only real function is to be a hit point boost (plus I think the graphic sucks so it bothers me every time I open my backpack and see my fairy dragon sitting there like a badly drawn pink splodge).
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Edit: It just occurred to me that there should be a 'Lose Familiar' spell!
Don't listen to them, Princess Starshine! You're the bestest, most cutest pseudodragon to ever sit in my backpack from Candlekeep to the Throne of Bhaal without EVER coming out again!
Wait a minute, he said 'fairy dragon'. Those aren't at all useful until SoA and even then just for a free casting of Invisibility 10' Radius. Pseudodragons are awesome!
Fairy dragons aren't completely useless in BG1. They are immune to petrification so you could use one to beat up a basilisk - very, very slowly.
Keep it away from the greater basilisks though. They tend to bite when they can't stone you...
Without the switch, the battle would go a lot faster than you're thinking - 1d2+4 damage per hit, because of the melee vs. ranged bonus.
Some people seem to find that basilisks do no damage, only try to petrify, and I don't know why my experience is different.
Note that greater basilisks are a lot more dangerous in melee than lesser basilisks; 3.5 attacks at THAC0 10 instead of 1 attack at THAC0 14, and they can do quite a bit of per-hit damage.
Though helpful tip. Korax only turns on you if you're near him. If you keep a safe distance, the taste of your flesh won't be quite so tempting.
I've always wondered if you could heal Korax with the cause wounds spells. Anybody ever try that?
It's more of a Final Fantasy thing for undead to be harmed by heal spells, and sometimes healed by harm spells.
I'm not 100% sure I've ever tested it though. I think at some point I was looking into any potential benefits for the Iron Thorn, back when its description said it turned you into a zombie, rather than merely giving you the appearance of a zombie.
That ring really seems like there should be some way to use it towards your benefit, but no go.
I'm pretty sure you can cure him with a regular Cure Light Wounds spell.
That is so wrong!
Consider this. "positive" spells bypass spell resistance. So if healing spells hurt undead, you could simply cast "Heal" on any lich, and rather than restoring them to full HP, it would slay them entirely, and none of their protections would stop it because healing bypasses all that.
And that's a 'bad' thing???
Never tried by I expect the cause wounds spell should restore his hit points, if he’s considered undead.
Also never tried using Heal to reduce an undead’s HP in BG1, but I used it a lot in NWN and it reduced them to 1 HP, can’t remember if MR was involved though.
I think familiars can be quite useful in combat at low levels, especially if buffed by magic. My ferret managed to kill Frennedan in Irenicus’ dungeon. I was rather proud of him.
That... until the latest patch, Frennedan was unarmed, and used the standard player-type punch attack. That means he did small amounts of nonlethal damage, and was treated as not having a melee weapon for the purposes of taking melee hits - +4 to hit and damage on attacks against him. It would be a very different fight now.
I would be curious to know if someone has really a use for it.
I wish I could unfind it ... will have to wait for SoA I guess...
I have found someone who is happy to have a rabbit as a familiar ...
https://rpgrabbit.wordpress.com/tag/baldurs-gate/
Making fresh corpses for its master
This is it, now thanks to you I love my rabbit. I need to have him kill some monster, perhaps after a Ghoul Touch he will give the killing blow.
In 3rd Edition, you can actually cast Touch spells and opt to have it also apply to your familiar, allowing them to deliver the touch spell for you. NWN1 does not have this functionality, but I believe NWN2 does, so providing a Rabbit is one of the familiars (can't remember if it is), you could indeed have your bunny delivering Ghoul Touch and Vampiric Touch spells.