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<blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4759514" data-attributes="member: 35909"><p>Don't I know it! Aforementioned cat lady had it, and I wanted it for her tiger, too. DM refused to budge, even though he could not make a reasoned argument rules-wise why. In my case, I had exalted companion feat, so my tiger was an int 3 magical beast. DM claimed there was a hidden int requirement to know right from wrong and thus be exalted. I shot back any old half orc could have int 3, and yet he'd have allowed such a person to be exalted. He thought it was broken for all the stuff it gave my companion. I thought it was fair to spend two (of an animal's only like 6 feats, tops, over the course of its existence) for VoP to make up for the fact his master couldn't drape him in magic items like a normal druid could. He said that has a cost to the druid, to which I went and used NPC gold values (as if the companion was a cohort) to show him that after level 10 or so (he was 11 at the time), outfitting a companion as a cohort would still only be ~1/5 of a druid's gold... blah. He didn't allow it. And I'm still upset about it.</p><p></p><p>/rant <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>On the topic of things that aren't explicitly off-limits but most DMs will not allow for a companion: Tome of Battle maneuvers! My DM actually did allow that, so my tiger took a bunch of Martial Study and Stance feats for Divine Spirit, and was going to get the tactical feat, too. That was one inspiring tiger.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="StreamOfTheSky, post: 4759514, member: 35909"] Don't I know it! Aforementioned cat lady had it, and I wanted it for her tiger, too. DM refused to budge, even though he could not make a reasoned argument rules-wise why. In my case, I had exalted companion feat, so my tiger was an int 3 magical beast. DM claimed there was a hidden int requirement to know right from wrong and thus be exalted. I shot back any old half orc could have int 3, and yet he'd have allowed such a person to be exalted. He thought it was broken for all the stuff it gave my companion. I thought it was fair to spend two (of an animal's only like 6 feats, tops, over the course of its existence) for VoP to make up for the fact his master couldn't drape him in magic items like a normal druid could. He said that has a cost to the druid, to which I went and used NPC gold values (as if the companion was a cohort) to show him that after level 10 or so (he was 11 at the time), outfitting a companion as a cohort would still only be ~1/5 of a druid's gold... blah. He didn't allow it. And I'm still upset about it. /rant :) On the topic of things that aren't explicitly off-limits but most DMs will not allow for a companion: Tome of Battle maneuvers! My DM actually did allow that, so my tiger took a bunch of Martial Study and Stance feats for Divine Spirit, and was going to get the tactical feat, too. That was one inspiring tiger. [/QUOTE]
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