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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kigmatzomat" data-source="post: 930829" data-attributes="member: 9254">Unfortunately there aren't many rules covering this.  Heck, they're pretty vague on awakened animals in general.  (Are they magical beasts now?  If so, what BAB do they use? etc, etc)   Fortunately animals don't have much in the way of specials, so their ECL should really be equal to their HD.  Add any class levels they gain and use that as their cohort level.  Me personally, I make sure awakened animals have 1 + 1 feat/4HD to reflect their boosted intelligence since they don't get any retroactive skill points.  The down side to animals as combat cohorts is that they don't get any additional attack progression.  This seems very, very freaky to me but that's the way natural weapons work by default.  An awakened warhorse who takes the fighter path will surprise no end of wolves, horsetheives, or other mounts when they start picking up focus & specialization: hoofs, dodge, powerattack and cleave.  And as they will be picking up 1/2 your XP while only a 4th level creature, they should level quite quickly, at least for a while.</blockquote>