More than one familiar?

[Christian]

That bird is flying around? Well, it has wings, and moves faster than walking, must be someone's familiar...

Darn tootin'!

 

[Kmart Kommando]

No one ever sees a familiar until it's scouting time, then the bat in the cave arouses suspicion. Ditto the rat in the dungeon. Maybe someone just really likes their pets and made them immune to fire with any number of common spells.

If some dude is swinging a glowing sword and throwing damage spells around, and has a bat flying around him, who looks more dangerous?
Even if there's a sorcerer or wizard running around with a ferret on their shoulder, if the animal isn't really doing anything offensive, you'd have to be meta-gaming to think that the animal is a priority target. "Should I kill the guy who is raining down fire and killing us by the dozen, or should I take pot shots at the fuzzy critter?"

The loss of XP is a meta-game concept, characters shouldn't know that killing the fuzzy pets = XP sinkhole.

 

[Patlin]

It's fairly easy for a Cerebromancer to wind up with both a psicrystal and a familiar, which are similar to each other.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Would having levels in more than one class that gets a familiar let you have more than one?

No.

In the special case of obtaining a familiar, both wizards and sorcerers have the same ability. A sorcerer/wizard stacks his sorcerer and wizard levels to determine the familiar’s natural armor, Intelligence score, and special abilities.

-Hyp.

 

[Pell-Mell]

The Dragon Magazine article referenced above is "A Little More Familiar" in Dragon Magazine #280. It includes a feat called "Extra Familiar".

 

[Quartz]

The prc that has living spell familiars caps at 4th level spells

The OP said that the BBEG is Epic.

 

[Ender_rpm]

I was pondering htis very subject after a quick rewatching of "Little Mermaid" this weekend A Flotsam and Jetsam like pair would be awesome, maybe a pair of ravens that deliver messages to the PCs as they sleep, or keep the spell casters up all night. Or just a pair of roving cats, running away as soon as they see the PCs, but alerting the BBEG to their prescence. And with the new Imbue Familiar with Spelllike ability spell, it could get even more fun than that. Invis IS only a 2nd level spell....