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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unwise" data-source="post: 6700153" data-attributes="member: 98008">I have seen it in practice twice, both while DMing. The first time around was with a pretty power gaming lot, they cared a lot about DPR and soon found that the ranger was eclipsing other people. That bothered a few members of the group, namely the melee damage dealers. I alleviated that somewhat by having the beast do lots of things that were not tactically sound. Like biting out the throats of enemies that were already down and being easily taunted off the enemy mages by enemy tanks. Also if the beast got hit really badly it would run away from that enemy. It had survival instincts, so if you wanted to keep it in combat with an alpha predator you had your work cut out for you. The ranger had to regularly spend their action or bonus action to redirect the companion.In another group, they were pretty powergamey too, the difference is I rolled for the animal when it was not being directly controlled. Somehow that made all the difference, the players loved the beast as it was just extra help, because the ranger did not roll the damage etc, nobody put 2 and 2 together and realised that his DPR ecplipsed theirs.</blockquote>