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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 47831" data-attributes="member: 259">The rolling stats thing could be dangerous, depending on the player and on you.My DM handled my first useful animal companion at fifth level by having me encounter a wounded bear in the woods.&nbsp; We RPed through the first scene, and have RPed through several others involving the bear; her appearance was important to the plot (her previous druidic master had been murdered, and we went to investigate).Each time I level, I advance her one hit die, and modify her stats, and roll her HP.&nbsp; I've rolled astonishingly badly, so she has near the minimum HP for a bear of her size.&nbsp; But rolling is a lot of fun.If I wanted to munchkin out, I could go searching for another bear, one with better HP.&nbsp; But that wouldn't be any fun.So maybe you could just let him roll HP.&nbsp; And if he drops an animal for poor HP once, that's probably not a game-killer.&nbsp; But if he does it twice, he may find that animals resist his animal friendship spell better than they used to.Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 47831, member: 259"] The rolling stats thing could be dangerous, depending on the player and on you. My DM handled my first useful animal companion at fifth level by having me encounter a wounded bear in the woods. We RPed through the first scene, and have RPed through several others involving the bear; her appearance was important to the plot (her previous druidic master had been murdered, and we went to investigate). Each time I level, I advance her one hit die, and modify her stats, and roll her HP. I've rolled astonishingly badly, so she has near the minimum HP for a bear of her size. But rolling is a lot of fun. If I wanted to munchkin out, I could go searching for another bear, one with better HP. But that wouldn't be any fun. So maybe you could just let him roll HP. And if he drops an animal for poor HP once, that's probably not a game-killer. But if he does it twice, he may find that animals resist his animal friendship spell better than they used to. Daniel [/QUOTE]

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