Clarence Montague:
What are the spider familiar abilities?
If you're refering to this:
Narrator:
It can be developed into a full blown familiar with reciprocal sider abilities too!
The base Giant Spider (or Spoder) is about the size of a medium dog and is purchased as such:
Giant Spider Familiar: Ally (Giant Spider; Built on 25%; Constantly Available; Special Abilities, +50%; Summonable, +100%; Sympathy, -25%) [9].; Clinging (GBF, -40%) [12]; ER 6 (Drains Familiar, -50%) [9]; Special Rapport (Familiar) [5]. 35 points.
Clinging is the base 'reciprocal' ability. However also purchasable are:
quote:
Masters of a giant spider familiar can buy Ambidextrous (GBF, -40%) [3]; Binding 5 (Costs Fatigue, 1 FP, -5%; Engulfing, +60%; GBF, -40%; Jet, +0%) [12], 8 [19], 10 [23], 13 [30], or 15 [35]; DR 1 (GBF, -40%) [3]; and Super-Climbing 1-4 (GBF, -40%) [2/level].
GBF is
Granted
By
Familiar and means:
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This is a significant limitation because the ability is inherent to the granter, not you. Thus, if he wishes to deny you access to it, for any reason, you immediately lose it. (Assuming the granter is an Ally, this will be rare, but even Allies can be mind-controlled, reprogrammed, swayed by Fast-Talk, etc.)
Your ability also goes away if the granter is ever stunned, unconscious, killed, or simply not present. There’s some leeway in the definition of “not present,” so it’s important for the GM and player to agree on what this means ahead of time. In all cases, if the granter is an Ally and his appearance roll fails, he is not present. Past that, a good guideline is that the granter must be able to reach you in a minute or less (thus, within 300 yards for the average person). However, this can be altered to fit the specific relationship.
I'm not sure how you'd go about picking one of the Spoders up as a Familiar.... but since you've got spells I'm guessing you have Magery 0? So that would work fine.
You also probably don't have to spend the 35 on it, you could get it for the measly 9 or 14 points, and then expand into GBF stuff later. And since it's an actual living creature, you could even drop the Summonable (+100%) and Special Abilities (+50%)* and it would only cost 6 or 11 points (with Special Rapport).
For instance Jareth's ferret is a Bonded creature and I only paid 6 points for him. But then Jareth doesn't have Special Rapport or any nifty 'ferret' based powers (like Catfall, Combat Reflexes, Nimble Climber, smelling bad, Double Jointed, etc).
* And of course not getting any GBF stuff. If you eventually pick that up you have to increase the cost of the Familiar to include Special Abilities (+50%).
And if you bought it with less than 6 points (but built at the 6 point mark) Narrator would probably give it an appropriate Loyalty/Morale rating... meaning occasionally it would refuse to do what you want because it's too dangerous, or you'd have to bribe it, or it would run away until the fight was over, etc.
I PMed you the whole Giant Spider write up, so check your PM box.
This message was last edited by the player at 06:42, Thu 29 Mar 2018.
