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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6261311" data-attributes="member: 6678119">The Urban Druid from Dragon 317 page 30 (or Dragon Compendium page 57, with companion rules on pages 60 and 61) can gain a small animated object as a companion.  That's the only way I know of to straight up gain a construct as a companion for anything like a druid or ranger.  Show it to your DM and see if the ranger can take it as a companion with ranger levels counting as half a druid's like normal?If you want to delve into familiars then there are the guardian familiars detailed in Complete Warrior starting on page 118.None of these constructs have Int scores, but that's solved by using the Soulfused Construct template from Magic of Incarnum page 196.  Since that template has a listed LA of "Base creature +1" I'd say you could probably just treat your friend's druid level as 1 lower for the purposes of boosting the companion.  If you're going the Effigy route then note the CR increase is +1, so combining the templates might simply result in lowering the ranger's effective druid level by 2 for the creature, which might not be a bad trade.  Your friend might want to take the <a href="http://dndtools.eu/feats/complete-adventurer--54/natural-bond--2030/" target="_blank">Natural Bond</a> feat to improve the companion since rangers don't exactly have great companions.All that is assuming you don't just rule that the ritual for the Iron Defender Homunculus can use the warforged ranger's "magical liquid essence" and then bind the homunculus to the ranger instead of an animal companion.  To me it is a truly trivial matter to allow that use.  After all, when making magic items it's possible to have two characters work on it.  One can supply the spell, and the other can do the rest such as making a scroll itself or something.  Just say that the homunculus companion gains HD as if the ranger is half an artificer's level and you're good to go.</blockquote>

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