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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ashrym" data-source="post: 8544571" data-attributes="member: 6750235">The ranger and wolf are not in combat and therefore the help action required in combat is not applicable.  Bringing it up is pointless.If you don't think they are being productive together as a DM then ask the player how the wolf is helping.  Then decide.  It's a reasonable approach but it's also reasonable to simply play by mechanics.  A lot of tables do it.The pet having it's own roll when the rules stipulate passive perception is moot.  At that point there's no advantage.  Opposed stealth check is based on that static passive perception DC.  It's only a question if the wolf or ranger is also surprised or not.  It's not possible to have a benefit from additional rolling that does not exist.  Granting the bonus is the mechanic used with the rolls are replaced with static numbers.Feats being options cannot be an argument in the case of benefits between two different feats.  If feats aren't allowed then neither feat matters and if feats are allowed then the argument is valid.Being enough most of the time is why the other times are a situational benefit and why it's a minor consideration to allow.  It's also not different than any other class that uses similar mechanics.  There are a lot of ways to gain advantage on a check that can be used with the same feat.  There's no reason to gatekeep rangers out of it with this method just because it's not on your approved list.  You can call it a house rule if that makes you feel better, but the basic rules are the DM determines if what the players are doing is possible so if the player says "hey, my wolf is doing this to help me" and it sounds reasonable then the helping each other rule applies and the passive check bonus rule applies.  That doesn't seem to be not the default to me at all. It's not going to hurt anyone's game to let a beast master ranger make use of the beast he selected as part of the whole character concept.</blockquote>

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