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Message: <blockquote data-quote="xidoraven" data-source="post: 4886074" data-attributes="member: 60187">Familiar & Animal CompanionsFor the record, I plan on making sure that all potential familiar, animal companions, and mounts, along with raising/training information be provided with as many dinosaurs and prehistoric animals as possible.Adding to that goal, the Dragon Magazine article (vol. 318, which featured the dinosaurs above in two separate sections) did include a small table which outlined the levels at which familiars and/or animal companions could be delegated from the dinoprims up to Stegosaurus.Troodon was in another article altogether, and would also be suitable in this manner - I have added my guess of what level it should be in the animal companion list below.  I am not sure if being a Medium-sized animal makes it inappropriate as a familiar.Dinosaur FamiliarsTwo of the dinosaurs presented in this article make excellent familiars.  Specific bonuses granted by a compsognathus or rhamphorhynchus familiar are as follows:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compsognathus = (Special) Master gains a +3 bonus on Hide checks</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rhamphorhynchus = (Special) Master gains a +3 bonus on Initiative checks</li> </ul>Dinosaur CompanionsAs detailed on page 36 of the Player's Handbook, high-level druids (and rangers) can select more powerful animal companions.  Many of the dinosaurs presented in this article can make excellent animal companions as well.  A character can select one of these dinosaurs as an animal companion by applying the indicated adjustment to the character's appropriate class level for purposes of determining the animal companion's characteristics and special abilities.1st level or higher<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compsognathus</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Rhamphorhynchus</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Troodon</li> </ul>4th level or higher (level -3)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Dimetrodon</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pteranodon</li> </ul>10th level or higher (level -9)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pachycephalosaurus</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Helicoprion</li> </ul>13th level or higher (level -12)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Parasaurolophus</li> </ul>16th level or higher (level -15)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Stegosaurus</li> </ul>21th level or higher (level -20)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Diplodocus</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Gigantosaurus</li> </ul>24th level or higher (level -23)<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Liopleurodon</li> </ul></blockquote>

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