Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="evilbob" data-source="post: 2950163" data-attributes="member: 9789">The PHB II describes a process of feat retraining that I find interesting.  It's generally implied that this is for characters only, but would anyone consider allowing this type of retraining for an animal companion as well?For example:  the eagle animal companion has the feat "weapon finesse."  Once it advances in hit die due to the druid's level, it becomes a medium creature, gains strength and loses some dex and ends up with a higher strength score than dex (str 10, dex 15 -> str 15, dex 14, due to size increase and +1 str and dex due to animal companion advancement).  Weapon finesse is now basically worthless (unless you cast cat's grace on it or gave it some sort of special magical item that increased dex, but these are exceptions).  Would it be reasonable to create a sort of "retraining" for the eagle to switch out that feat (perhaps a special "handle animal" check that could only be done when the eagle was advancing), or would most GMs rule that animals cannot be retrained in that fashion?Thoughts?</blockquote>