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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6739014" data-attributes="member: 7006">Not exactly sure I understand the differences you spoke of in your post, but I play it as I look at the hit point number the animal has in the Monster Manual (the single number listed, *not* the potential maximum you'd get from rolling out the hit dice and getting the highest number on each roll)... and compare it to four times the ranger's level.  Whichever number is higher, that's the companion's hit points.So for instance, the Wolf has listed as its hit points: 11 (2d8+2)So I would take 11 to be its hit point maximum (and not 18-- 8+8+2) and compare it to the Level 3 ranger times 4 [12].Thus, the wolf would have 12 hit points maximum (as the ranger level x 4 is higher [12] than the wolf's normal hit point maximum [11].)</blockquote>