Weiley31
Legend
This is pretty much I can agree with. My bud is playing a Revised Ranger(Beast Conclave) and hit level 4. Meaning not only does his character get improvements via his Ability Modifiers, Feats, and PB score, so too does his Black Panther.I love the physical books as much as the next guy, but...there is always a butt.
.pdfs are just more practical. If you need to juggle with 10 books for your session, it's faster to have 10 tabs open in your pdf reader than going through 10 books. Also one laptop is lighter than 10 books.
So instead of lugging the PHB around/or giving him one of the WoTC Beast stat blocks you can buy in one of those mini sets, I just go on D&D 5e Statblock Generator and just update his Black Panther according, even inlcuding Proficiency Bonus, Saving Throws, Skills it has(and whether expertised or not), Armor Class via Companion's Bond, and which ever Ability Score he increased on the Black Panther. (And just for the hells of it, I even include Favored Enemy: Beasts/+2 Damage since it benefits from the Ranger's Favored Enemy choice.)
Then I make sure to print the stat block out and hand it to my bud with all the updates on it. That way he doesn't have to go through the hassle of remembering what changed on there, it makes upkeeping on me easier, and we're not constantly looking at his character sheet, and back, to see what changes on the Panther statblock.