Familiars and Touch Spells

[Wuorg]

Is there a reason familiars in BG3 can't use the caster's touch spells? I know they have their own unique features/attacks, which is really cool and useful in its own right, but I do certainly miss this from tabletop.

[jk2l]

a lot of 5e rules don't translate well into in game design.

official rules you need to trigger familiar's reaction as part of your spell action. the reaction system wasn't really implement till very late in early access (i think initially the game don't even want to put reaction system)

even now i felt the reaction system is a bit wonky

[Mike Garrison]

I would guess the answer is something like "it's too hard to code that up".

[Wuorg]

Originally posted by jk2l:

a lot of 5e rules don't translate well into in game design.

official rules you need to trigger familiar's reaction as part of your spell action. the reaction system wasn't really implement till very late in early access (i think initially the game don't even want to put reaction system)

even now i felt the reaction system is a bit wonky

Ah, interesting, I didn't know about any of that! Shame, it seems like the kind of thing that would be difficult (or impossible) for a mod to do too :/