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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FlimFlam" data-source="post: 481134" data-attributes="member: 8567">Animal Friendship questions…There has been a dispute in my group with the reading of the Animal Companion spell.  Here is the problem we have, from the SRD:“The character can have animal friends whose Hit Dice total no more than twice the character's caster level.”So we have a level 6 caster, which means he can have an animal friend of 12 HD?  Well that is how I am reading the SRD anyway.I thought it was 12HD worth of creatures, but each creature can not succeed the caster’s level in HD.  So he can have 2 6HD creatures, or any other division as long as the HD of each creature doesn’t exceed 6.  This is my interpretation, and I think this comes out of the PHB.  I think the PHB has more of a description than the SRD, but I don’t have the PHB on me nor do I have an exact quote.Now in the DMG (again, I don’t have it on me so no exact quote) there is a section describing Animal Friendship.  It basically mentions that (not an exact quote) “when you are out of the animal friends home territory, you can only have a total hit dice equal to half the casters level of animal companions”.Ok, this is gonna be hard to dissect without the exact quote, but I remember that from the exact quote you can read this one of two ways.1) A single animal companion’s hit dice has to be half the caster’s level.A) Does this mean half the hit dice they can control (in this case 12.  So half that would be 6)?B) Half the caster’s current level (so his HD would be 6, half that is 3).So taking this interpretation, this means that if you had 2 creatures of 6 HD, only one would stay with you and the other would return home (if you follow the logic of A).  Or only a 3 HD creature would stay with you (taking the logic of B).2) The total for all the animal companions hit dice has to be half the caster’s level.Now taking this interpretation means that if you could control 12 HD of creatures, each one cannot be more than 6 HD.  So he would be fine with both 6 HD creatures.I hope someone can look up the exact quote in the DMG and help me out with this =)</blockquote>

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