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<blockquote data-quote="AGGEMAM" data-source="post: 4784" data-attributes="member: 736">Ok, here goes.Sean K. Reynolds, who contributed the awaken animal spell and in general terms all the things regarding animal companions and who is also a member of the Rules Council, intended it to work like the animal awakened remained an animal in every way, proven by the fact that he actually wrote so in Pool of Radiance:Attack on Myth Drannor.However, since the MM says that an animal cannot have more than 2 points of Int, the word on the rule contradict this.This was taken up by the Rules Council on mine and Caliban's request, and they issued both an official ruling, which goes by the word of the rule (an awakened animal becomes a magical beast), and an unofficial ruling, which goes by the intent of Sean K. Reynolds.Another example (in the same category) is the Tressym, an animal in FRCS, had an Int of 12, but since the MM says an animal can only have Int 2 they errataed it to Int 2, but didn't errata the skill point it recieves from the higher Int. So it was intended to be an animal with Int 12, but it couldn't be that by the word of rules.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AGGEMAM, post: 4784, member: 736"] Ok, here goes. Sean K. Reynolds, who contributed the awaken animal spell and in general terms all the things regarding animal companions and who is also a member of the Rules Council, intended it to work like the animal awakened remained an animal in every way, proven by the fact that he actually wrote so in Pool of Radiance:Attack on Myth Drannor. However, since the MM says that an animal cannot have more than 2 points of Int, the word on the rule contradict this. This was taken up by the Rules Council on mine and Caliban's request, and they issued both an official ruling, which goes by the word of the rule (an awakened animal becomes a magical beast), and an unofficial ruling, which goes by the intent of Sean K. Reynolds. Another example (in the same category) is the Tressym, an animal in FRCS, had an Int of 12, but since the MM says an animal can only have Int 2 they errataed it to Int 2, but didn't errata the skill point it recieves from the higher Int. So it was intended to be an animal with Int 12, but it couldn't be that by the word of rules. [/QUOTE]

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