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<blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 4144323" data-attributes="member: 8243"><p>ooc - dogville</p><p></p><p><strong>WD</strong>, I get the undefined duration. It lasts until dismissed or killed. The couple of minutes came from the duration of the <em>Speak with animals</em> ability. I don't have a problem with the duration of the animal companion ability. Just not sure how the companion is supposed to work in game outside combat. </p><p></p><p>The question I had came from the <em>Summon Nature's Ally</em> aspect - </p><p></p><p>So basically, it attacks your opponents. And when there are no opponents? What does it do? Apart from once per day, and for a couple of minutes, Kaddok has no control over the animal as far as I can see.</p><p></p><p>Which seems to limit its usefulness as a long term companion in the manner of a druid's animal companion or a trained animal. I was just wondering if this had been addressed somewhere like in the source material (Complete Champion?)</p><p></p><p>I like animal companions. A number of my characters have had war dogs. So I would like to find a workable solution. One way would be to allow the animal to be treated as trained, like a war dog. Giving commands to a trained animal is a std action requiring DC10 Handle Animal rolls. Making it an automatic success seems to be moving towards making more of the ability than was intended or is perhaps fair. One way to balance this may be to limit the learning of tricks to one per day/week etc.</p><p></p><p><strong>Anyone</strong> got any thoughts? </p><p></p><p>doghead</p><p>aka thotd</p><p></p><p>doghead</p><p>aka thotd</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doghead, post: 4144323, member: 8243"] ooc - dogville [B]WD[/B], I get the undefined duration. It lasts until dismissed or killed. The couple of minutes came from the duration of the [i]Speak with animals[/i] ability. I don't have a problem with the duration of the animal companion ability. Just not sure how the companion is supposed to work in game outside combat. The question I had came from the [i]Summon Nature's Ally[/i] aspect - So basically, it attacks your opponents. And when there are no opponents? What does it do? Apart from once per day, and for a couple of minutes, Kaddok has no control over the animal as far as I can see. Which seems to limit its usefulness as a long term companion in the manner of a druid's animal companion or a trained animal. I was just wondering if this had been addressed somewhere like in the source material (Complete Champion?) I like animal companions. A number of my characters have had war dogs. So I would like to find a workable solution. One way would be to allow the animal to be treated as trained, like a war dog. Giving commands to a trained animal is a std action requiring DC10 Handle Animal rolls. Making it an automatic success seems to be moving towards making more of the ability than was intended or is perhaps fair. One way to balance this may be to limit the learning of tricks to one per day/week etc. [B]Anyone[/B] got any thoughts? doghead aka thotd doghead aka thotd [/QUOTE]
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