Applying Grafts to... my Familiar!

[atemu1234]

I have a player who wants to apply a Zombie Arm graft to his familiar. Unfortunately, that familiar is a raven. How would this work? What is the result? Is it dead? Is it still a familiar? Can it make an unarmed strike? Can it carry a platter of cheese?

[Urpriest]

Depends. If your DM rules that arm grafts must replace existing arms then it won't work because a raven doesn't have arms. If your DM rules they are extra arms then you can stack as many as you want and go to town.

[Inevitability]

Depends. If your DM rules that arm grafts must replace existing arms then it won't work because a raven doesn't have arms. If your DM rules they are extra arms then you can stack as many as you want and go to town.

And that day, the cento-wielder was born.

[Milodiah]

I don't recall seeing anywhere that it must be a human arm, by the way...there are plenty of Small races, and even some Tiny races, that would have arms more suitable to a raven's body.

"Hey man, got any...fairy arms?"

"...is that some kind of drug?"

"No, I mean literal fairy arms. Arms chopped off a fairy."

"What? No! Why would you even want that!"

"To sew onto this bird. Duh."


Aaaah, adventurer logic.

[sleepyphoenixx]

There aren't any rules against it afaik. The raven would still be alive and still a familiar. I'd say it can do whatever you normally use a hand for, in addition to the slam attack mentioned in the description.

You do open your game up to all kinds of silly shenanigans though. Like a raven with 20 zombie arms. I generelly tend to allow grafts only as replacements for that reason, but that's a houserule afaik. The only grafts that have such limitations by RAW are the new-style ones from Magic of Eberron.