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When choosing a familiar, the creatures listed below are also available to the spellcaster. The spellcaster may choose a familiar with an alignment up to one step away on each of the alignment axes (lawful through chaotic, good through evil).
{| class="zebra d20" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
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! style="text-align: left;" | Familiar || Alignment || Arcane Spellcaster Level
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Shocker Lizard|Shocker lizard]] || [[SRD:Neutral|Neutral]] || 5th
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Stirge|Stirge]] || [[SRD:Neutral|Neutral]] || 5th
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Formian|Formian worker]] || [[SRD:Lawful Neutral|Lawful neutral]] || 7th
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Imp|Imp]] || [[SRD:Lawful Evil|Lawful evil]] || 7th
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Pseudodragon|Pseudodragon]] || [[SRD:Neutral Good|Neutral good]] || 7th
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Quasit|Quasit]] || [[SRD:Chaotic Evil|Chaotic evil]] || 7th
|}
The list in the table above presents only a few possible improved familiars. Almost any creature of the same general size and power as those on the list makes a suitable familiar. Nor is the master’s alignment the only possible categorization. For instance, improved familiars could be assigned by the master’s creature type or subtype, as shown below.
{| class="zebra d20" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"
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! style="text-align: left;" | Familiar || Type/Subtype || Arcane Spellcaster Level
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Celestial Creature|Celestial]] [[SRD:Hawk|hawk]]<sup>1</sup> || [[SRD:Good Subtype|Good]] || 3rd
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Fiendish Creature|Fiendish]] [[SRD:Snake|Tiny viper snake]]<sup>2</sup> || [[SRD:Evil Subtype|Evil]] || 3rd
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Air Elemental|Air elemental, Small]] || [[SRD:Air Subtype|Air]] || 5th
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Earth Elemental|Earth elemental, Small]] || [[SRD:Earth Subtype|Earth]] || 5th
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Fire Elemental|Fire elemental, Small]] || [[SRD:Fire Subtype|Fire]] || 5th
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Lizard|Shocker lizard]] || [[SED:Electricity|electricity]] || 5th
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Water Elemental|Water elemental, Small]] || [[SRD:Water Subtype|Water]] || 5th
|- class="even"
| style="text-align: left;" | [[SRD:Homunculus|Homunculus]]<sup>3</sup> || [[SRD:Undead Type|Undead]] || 7th
|-
