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<blockquote data-quote="TwoSix" data-source="post: 7758445" data-attributes="member: 205"><p>I'm curious as to the rationale to the number of mechanics that are tied to the "Pet of less than your maximum CR" concept. The mechanic would seem to push you in the direction of either:</p><p>a) training a pet of your maximum allowable CR and ignoring a number of class and subclass features</p><p>b) training a pet of your maximum allowable CR -1 and hoping the class and subclass bonuses make up the difference.</p><p></p><p>It would seem more straightforward, to me, to simply lower the expected CR by 1 (or fractionally, at low level) and simply always allow the class/subclass features to work.</p><p></p><p>Related to that issue, there's no real verbiage in the class to explain what sort of pet you're allowed to tame, after you obtain your starter pet at 1st level. The implication is certainly there that an Animalist can only tame beasts of a CR less than or equal to the max allowable CR in the chart, but there's no actual rules text stating as such. The Regimen class feature says that "Your regimen determines the kinds of creatures you can capture and train as pets.", but the 1st level feature says only that the character gains a pet of the beast type of a CR no higher than the table listing. There's no actual rules text that says if I meet a CR 2 sabertooth tiger at 1st level, I can't tame it as a pet, or that I would be allowed to tame a CR2 tiger even if I was 5th level (where CR2 creatures become allowable by the chart.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TwoSix, post: 7758445, member: 205"] I'm curious as to the rationale to the number of mechanics that are tied to the "Pet of less than your maximum CR" concept. The mechanic would seem to push you in the direction of either: a) training a pet of your maximum allowable CR and ignoring a number of class and subclass features b) training a pet of your maximum allowable CR -1 and hoping the class and subclass bonuses make up the difference. It would seem more straightforward, to me, to simply lower the expected CR by 1 (or fractionally, at low level) and simply always allow the class/subclass features to work. Related to that issue, there's no real verbiage in the class to explain what sort of pet you're allowed to tame, after you obtain your starter pet at 1st level. The implication is certainly there that an Animalist can only tame beasts of a CR less than or equal to the max allowable CR in the chart, but there's no actual rules text stating as such. The Regimen class feature says that "Your regimen determines the kinds of creatures you can capture and train as pets.", but the 1st level feature says only that the character gains a pet of the beast type of a CR no higher than the table listing. There's no actual rules text that says if I meet a CR 2 sabertooth tiger at 1st level, I can't tame it as a pet, or that I would be allowed to tame a CR2 tiger even if I was 5th level (where CR2 creatures become allowable by the chart.) [/QUOTE]
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