Animal companions and weapon finesse

[Nikosandros]

I'm perplexed by the omission of weapon finesse among the feats allowed to animal companions.

It is an appropriate feat for animals and in the Bestiary many of them actually have it. Indeed companions like a cheetah or an eagle are quite disadvantaged if their are forced to rely on strength for their attack rolls.

 

[frankthedm]

You might notice there is an extra comma in that feat list. Weapon finesse is supposed to be in there.

...Stealthy, Toughness, , and Weapon Focus...

 

[Nikosandros]

You might notice there is an extra comma in that feat list. Weapon finesse is supposed to be in there.

Ah, indeed you're right. I had checked the errata, but this isn't mentioned.

 

[James Jacobs]

There were some weird bugs and errors that crept into the PDF, alas. The missing Weapon Finesse you mention from the animal companion feats list is one of them. The feat's not missing from the print version of the book, so it's not really errata. I'll let folks know on our PDF/web team to go in and fix the PDF.

 

[Nikosandros]

There were some weird bugs and errors that crept into the PDF, alas. The missing Weapon Finesse you mention from the animal companion feats list is one of them. The feat's not missing from the print version of the book, so it's not really errata. I'll let folks know on our PDF/web team to go in and fix the PDF.

Heh... when I'm at my PC, I'm so used to the PDFs that I didn't bother to check the print version...

Last night I suggested to the newbie druid player that she picked weapon finesse for her companion without even looking it up. because I was positive that the companion could take it; but today, as I was writing down the stats of the animal, I noticed the "omission" in the PDF.