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<blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 8122230" data-attributes="member: 6777454"><p>All of this indicates that there may be advantages to having other sorts of animals that I didn't fully calculate (although the wolves higher speed and ability to knock creatures down on a successful hit probably does outweigh what additional damage these few options I didn't consider may offer).</p><p></p><p>But ultimately the Beast Ranger's version of "extra attack" is "the animal gets to attack" which ties which animal one chose so closely to the Beastmasters combat ability on every single turn of combat so closely that it becomes so important to choose the one with the best possible combat potential that none of the other factors you presented here could ever really possibly even out to a fair trade-off.</p><p></p><p>The utility of the animal in-combat is so closely tied to the fundamental functionality of the class on every single turn, that the once-in-a-blue-moon advantage that others could imaginably afford one doesn't really matter.</p><p></p><p>And you certainly haven't addressed why someone who chose a hyena, or even a dog, as a companion should be penalized over someone who chose a wolf. The animals are similar enough that one would think that a similar level version of each should be similar-- but because the monster manual assigned them wildly different stats for reasons entirely unrelated to balance or the animal's physical traits, they were given wildly different stats.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GreenTengu, post: 8122230, member: 6777454"] All of this indicates that there may be advantages to having other sorts of animals that I didn't fully calculate (although the wolves higher speed and ability to knock creatures down on a successful hit probably does outweigh what additional damage these few options I didn't consider may offer). But ultimately the Beast Ranger's version of "extra attack" is "the animal gets to attack" which ties which animal one chose so closely to the Beastmasters combat ability on every single turn of combat so closely that it becomes so important to choose the one with the best possible combat potential that none of the other factors you presented here could ever really possibly even out to a fair trade-off. The utility of the animal in-combat is so closely tied to the fundamental functionality of the class on every single turn, that the once-in-a-blue-moon advantage that others could imaginably afford one doesn't really matter. And you certainly haven't addressed why someone who chose a hyena, or even a dog, as a companion should be penalized over someone who chose a wolf. The animals are similar enough that one would think that a similar level version of each should be similar-- but because the monster manual assigned them wildly different stats for reasons entirely unrelated to balance or the animal's physical traits, they were given wildly different stats. [/QUOTE]
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