Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brute" data-source="post: 6347888" data-attributes="member: 69013">I'm a long-time fan of both Druids and Rangers and have taken a look at the documents currently available (all of which I consider to be playtest material, with the final version still to come in the PHB). With that in mind, I have a few questions about Animal Companions as I have currently seen them.1. It appears that the Druid has no animal companion. What's the best way for a long-time Druid player to keep a wolf at his side? The "animal friendship" spell? How about just a DM ruling that they can have a pet (of a limited CR)?2. In either of the two above circumstances - exactly how does the animal in question participate in battle? It looks like a friendly animal will defend its master (I'll assume my druid's wolf would leap at an enemy's throat to protect me on his own initiative - or should it be my initiative?). How exactly do charmed friendlies battle?3. With the above in mind, the Ranger obviously gets a more powerful companion that can improve over time - but it seems severely limited in that the creature can only take actions when the Ranger character commands the creature to do so. Does this make the Animal Companion feature of the Beastmaster worse than the 1st level "animal friendship" spell?Feel I may be missing something here guys! Any thoughts would be appreciated. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

Verification