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<blockquote data-quote="Braydz" data-source="post: 4370928" data-attributes="member: 72815">I like the idea. Reading through the 4E PHB I missed the familiars and mounts and stuff. Oh I understand why they cut them, but I thought there should still be the option somewhere...This post is largely critical, but please understand that I mean it as a compliment. These are just my opinions, my ideas after reading the original post. But the original post GAVE me ideas. If I read it and my only reaction was, &quot;Oh wow, that's freaking awful,&quot; I wouldn't be replying with my thoughts.I would cut the part about rituals for undead minions. Performing a ritual costs in and of itself and requires a feat, and because of how you never really lose the second and third tier companion after you acquire them (by the rules as given), a ritual seems an unnecessary complication. I would say that in effect, a necromancer character performs the ritual/cuts his deal (a matter of narration and story pizazz) when he takes the feat.I think that the level caps for companions as given are too high. Being able to upgrade your actions (second-tier companions) or have an entirely new pool of actions (third-tier companions) is worth more than a feat in my opinion. Possible fixes that I see are to attach tier if not level requirements for the new feats.This assumes use of all the feats given as given. More drastically, I don't see the need for &quot;Trusted Cohort.&quot; The narrative, dramatic details of the relationship between a Warlord and a sworn shield-mate are very different from those of a Ranger and his faithful wolf are very different from those of a wizard and their created homunculos, but I see no reason not to use the same rules, specifically the rules for &quot;Empathic Director.&quot; This maintains the &quot;economy of motion&quot; instituted in 4E.To take your idea, VincentRVenturella, and twist it into what I will probably end up using, take the rules for &quot;Empathic Director&quot; but use the minion-style hit system from &quot;Trusted Cohort.&quot; The companion restores one &quot;hit&quot; per long rest, or the PC can spend a healing surge to restore the companion to &quot;full hits.&quot; The limit on the level of a companion is equal to the PC's level -1.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Braydz, post: 4370928, member: 72815"] I like the idea. Reading through the 4E PHB I missed the familiars and mounts and stuff. Oh I understand why they cut them, but I thought there should still be the option somewhere... This post is largely critical, but please understand that I mean it as a compliment. These are just my opinions, my ideas after reading the original post. But the original post GAVE me ideas. If I read it and my only reaction was, "Oh wow, that's freaking awful," I wouldn't be replying with my thoughts. I would cut the part about rituals for undead minions. Performing a ritual costs in and of itself and requires a feat, and because of how you never really lose the second and third tier companion after you acquire them (by the rules as given), a ritual seems an unnecessary complication. I would say that in effect, a necromancer character performs the ritual/cuts his deal (a matter of narration and story pizazz) when he takes the feat. I think that the level caps for companions as given are too high. Being able to upgrade your actions (second-tier companions) or have an entirely new pool of actions (third-tier companions) is worth more than a feat in my opinion. Possible fixes that I see are to attach tier if not level requirements for the new feats. This assumes use of all the feats given as given. More drastically, I don't see the need for "Trusted Cohort." The narrative, dramatic details of the relationship between a Warlord and a sworn shield-mate are very different from those of a Ranger and his faithful wolf are very different from those of a wizard and their created homunculos, but I see no reason not to use the same rules, specifically the rules for "Empathic Director." This maintains the "economy of motion" instituted in 4E. To take your idea, VincentRVenturella, and twist it into what I will probably end up using, take the rules for "Empathic Director" but use the minion-style hit system from "Trusted Cohort." The companion restores one "hit" per long rest, or the PC can spend a healing surge to restore the companion to "full hits." The limit on the level of a companion is equal to the PC's level -1. [/QUOTE]

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