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Dragon+: Q&A with Jeremy Crawford, 10/30/18
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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 7516742" data-attributes="member: 6677017"><p>Those errata are still pretty useless.</p><p></p><p>Here's the thing:</p><p></p><p>The game already has companions for anyone--they are called purchased animals. Warhorse, elephants, etc. If you aren't controlling them as mounts, they act on their own--which if they are battle trained usually means they will attack whoever is attacking them. This takes zero actions on your part.</p><p></p><p>Add Beastmaster. Now you can get a very limited choice of animals as a special pet that just stands there in combat unless you use your action economy to command it.</p><p></p><p>Seriously?</p><p></p><p>The easiest way to handle this is just to allow the animal companion to act normally, like any other animal, and any actions the Beastmaster grants to it are <em>in addition to</em> its normal actions. It would use its reaction to take them.</p><p></p><p>I personally have little respect for a DMing style that would try to buff the animal companion by not allowing other creatures to act as they are allowed to by the rules, or disallowing the purchase of animals for mechanical reasons (a campaign avoiding a menagerie for thematic reasons is different). Anyone can get a beast who will use its own actions to fight for them. That fact has to be taken account of in ranger animal companion design, and it simply wasn't.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yep, this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 7516742, member: 6677017"] Those errata are still pretty useless. Here's the thing: The game already has companions for anyone--they are called purchased animals. Warhorse, elephants, etc. If you aren't controlling them as mounts, they act on their own--which if they are battle trained usually means they will attack whoever is attacking them. This takes zero actions on your part. Add Beastmaster. Now you can get a very limited choice of animals as a special pet that just stands there in combat unless you use your action economy to command it. Seriously? The easiest way to handle this is just to allow the animal companion to act normally, like any other animal, and any actions the Beastmaster grants to it are [I]in addition to[/I] its normal actions. It would use its reaction to take them. I personally have little respect for a DMing style that would try to buff the animal companion by not allowing other creatures to act as they are allowed to by the rules, or disallowing the purchase of animals for mechanical reasons (a campaign avoiding a menagerie for thematic reasons is different). Anyone can get a beast who will use its own actions to fight for them. That fact has to be taken account of in ranger animal companion design, and it simply wasn't. Yep, this. [/QUOTE]
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