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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6583746" data-attributes="member: 996">They could be. The Animal Friendship spell let you 'befriend' and train an animal (or animals) with HD up to twice your level.  You could end up with a menagerie following you around, or a Baluchitherium.3e took a typical use of the spell and made it an automatic class feature.4e kept only a sub-set of the Druid's many abilities, leaving it a fairly good Controller, with wildshape adding versatility more than raw melee combat power, and no animal companion or animal friendship spell.Essentials split the 3e Druid into a healer-with-Animal-companion leader and a summoning-specialized controller.5e gave the Druid back its shapechanging and full range of spellcasting, including bringing back the Animal Friendship spell instead of an animal companion as a class feature.</blockquote>