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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7191874" data-attributes="member: 20564">1. Do you require your raven to be a class feature?&nbsp; Trained low-CR animals should be fairly easy to purchase for some gold.&nbsp; I know you mentioned &quot;no house rules&quot;, but asking the price of a mundane item not explicitly listed on the equipment list isn't a house rule, just part of the DM's job.&nbsp; Should be cheaper than a Mastiff.2. Druid (Circle of the Shepherd) [UA: June 5 Revised Class Options) allow you to talk to animals starting at 2nd, easy enough to get a raven that way as well as druidic casting.&nbsp; It's abilities work well toward enhancing you and allies as well as summoning, so you could summon and then melee.3.&nbsp; You don't mention how much druidic casting you want.&nbsp; Cleric (Nature) gets a druid cantrip and has a number of druid spells as domain spells.&nbsp; As well as heavy armor and shield.&nbsp; But not martial weapons so you'd need to multiclass, take a feat <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />, or some other path for the War Pick.4.&nbsp; Bard (Lore) has spell mastery (valor doesn't until 10th) and can pick up a few druid and storm spells.&nbsp; And find familiar.&nbsp; But no war pick.5.&nbsp; Wizard (Bladesinger) can have storm spells, the raven, and the warpick.&nbsp; But no shield without losing their bladesinging.&nbsp; But defaults to elf/half-elf only which I don't knwo if it fits into your definition of &quot;viking&quot;.&nbsp; The Norse had their Ljósálfar.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7191874, member: 20564"] 1. Do you require your raven to be a class feature? Trained low-CR animals should be fairly easy to purchase for some gold. I know you mentioned "no house rules", but asking the price of a mundane item not explicitly listed on the equipment list isn't a house rule, just part of the DM's job. Should be cheaper than a Mastiff. 2. Druid (Circle of the Shepherd) [UA: June 5 Revised Class Options) allow you to talk to animals starting at 2nd, easy enough to get a raven that way as well as druidic casting. It's abilities work well toward enhancing you and allies as well as summoning, so you could summon and then melee. 3. You don't mention how much druidic casting you want. Cleric (Nature) gets a druid cantrip and has a number of druid spells as domain spells. As well as heavy armor and shield. But not martial weapons so you'd need to multiclass, take a feat :(, or some other path for the War Pick. 4. Bard (Lore) has spell mastery (valor doesn't until 10th) and can pick up a few druid and storm spells. And find familiar. But no war pick. 5. Wizard (Bladesinger) can have storm spells, the raven, and the warpick. But no shield without losing their bladesinging. But defaults to elf/half-elf only which I don't knwo if it fits into your definition of "viking". The Norse had their Ljósálfar. [/QUOTE]

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