Familiars

In this post I explore the nuances of the Find Familiar spell of D&D 5th Edition and what your summoned familiar can do in combat. When researching this particular subject myself I was surprised to see no there was no dedicated section in the rules on familiars outside of the spell itself. I had to pull together a lot of different snippets in the rules to put it all together in a satisfying picture for myself. I’ll list my references first if people wish to use this as a reference, but you don’t have to read them ahead of time. We’ll unpack each rule as it pertains to the Find Familiar spell as we go. I have added page references for the SRD where the content overlaps.