familiar substitutions?

[Seharvepernfan]

Im looking for class features that replace summon familiar. I want to say Ive seen some that involve wands and staves.

Can someone point out where I can find these or any others?

[gorfnab]

Unearthed Arcana has specialist variant wizards that trade their familiars for various abilities based on a chosen school.

Players Handbook II has the Immediate Magic variants for wizards that trade their familiar for some defensive abilities again based on chosen school.

[jmelesky]

If your DM is open to Pathfinder, wizards have a standard option between a familiar and a bonded object. The latter lets you spontaneously cast any spell from your spellbook 1/day, but it's hard to cast anything if you lose it.

[Mango Fox]

Complete Champion has an alternate class feature for sorcerers that lets you replace your normal familiar with a "divine companion". It lets you convert your spells into healing and shielding for yourself (and only yourself).

Edit: This page (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872054/Alternative_Class_Features_III) might help you.

[Thurbane]

Can't recall having seen any ACFs that replace a Familiar with anything related to Staves or Wands. If such a thing exists, I would guess it was Dragon Magazine, or maybe a homebrew...

[Serpentine]

There is an Item Familiar thingy. I'm using it for one of my characters. Can't remember where I got it from, though... There's this core version (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/itemFamiliars.htm), though (I'm using a tweaked variant from elsewhere).

[Vizzerdrix]

Im looking for class features that replace summon familiar. I want to say Ive seen some that involve wands and staves.

Can someone point out where I can find these or any others?

I think I've seen something about this in a Dragon magazine. Shall I look it up?

[lesser_minion]

There is an Item Familiar thingy. I'm using it for one of my characters. Can't remember where I got it from, though... There's this core version (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/magic/itemFamiliars.htm), though (I'm using a tweaked variant from elsewhere).

The UA Item Familiar is considered comprehensively broken, but Pathfinder and Dragon Magazine both published an option that lets you swap your familiar for a special magic item that helps spellcasting.

[ubergeek63]

butterscotch for hot fudge on a sunday? :smallbiggrin:

I did once get a waitress to turn green over a banana split combination!