Eldritch Mlems

On the list of Familiar Abilities one is "dragon". I have a player thinking about picking up the Witch multiclass archetype for a familiar, and asking if theirs can be a dragon.

Is this allowed? Or is there some other context that I might be missing?

cross-posted from: !koalawallawoods@lemmy.world https://lemmy.ca/post/27904355

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