A question on familiars

[Mark Rand]

If a mage gets a familiar that, like most owls, normally sleeps during the day, will the animal's activity cycle change to meet the mage's?

[BishopofB&W]

I don't remember from The Once and Future King, but in The Sword in the Stone, I think Archimedes was active during the day but took a lot of short naps.

[Kevin]

Does the player WANT the owl's schedule to change?

 

Cause it is his or her's magic owl!

 

Could work with a story either way...weird little day time owl familiar OR grumpy owl familiar constantly complaining about being up too early, working in daylight, can't you mages ever do magic at midnight like you're supposed to, etc. etc.

[Mark Rand]

The mage, Lady Arcane, is a one of the characters I'm running in a campaign I'm going to GM. Since its a four-color team, she often has to fight crime during daylight hours. I'd like her familiar to be a Screech Owl, which is small, but they're generally active at night. Of course, I could give her a Snowy Owl, which is active both day and night, but that bird weighs four pounds.

[Kevin]

For a guy running a four color fantasy role-playing game, you seem pretty hung up on realisim!

 

Give her whichever kind of owl you want, at whatever size you want, and let it be an enchanted owl!

 

Bigger Night time owl bespelled to be active in the day.

 

Smaller Day time owl bespelled to be MUCH BIGGER.

 

Do what you want, and what works best for your game.

[Mark Rand]

Actually, it's four-color superheroes.

As I see it, among other things, the magic that made Amber, a screech owl, Lady Arcane's familiar, enables her to be active during the day.

Of course, this doesn't prevent her from sleeping when Lady Arcane's studying or being heiress Lisa Thomas. As Amber, who was named for the color of her eyes, put it to Lady Arcane, "I still need my beauty sleep."

[JmOz]

Then I would spendd the one point on buying reduced need to sleep (8 hours a week, or as a GM I would allow one hour a day)

[Mark Rand]

Amber actually gets the proper amount of sleep a healthy screech owl needs. She just doesn't always get the full amount at once.

[freakboy6117]

juts make it a writers fiat thing but chnaging sleep paterns is easy i do it to my self all the time.

 

but you do get the fun of waking your slkeeping owl and going amanda time for work and sleepy talking owl replying do we have to i was dreaming about mice.

[Badger]

Personally to me it doesnt seem like it matters. As much as I lkie statting everything out there is a time where you can overdo it. In any case superheroes are kind of on "24-hour call" anyway.