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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 2420279" data-attributes="member: 478">Well, I think normally you won't even need a feat to get an 'animal friend', you only need the Handle Animal skill and some way to 'obtain' the animal and then train it.Really, an animal is just a weaker cohort than what you can normally attract, so there is little reason not to allow that, and that's what the DM in question thinks as well. In fact, it would be more difficult to convince the DM to allow the Leadership feat with a standard cohort than with an animal cohort. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The main advantage of Leadership will be, that the animal will continue to advance.Training will still be necessary, but it will advance corresponding to a typical cohort's level advancement (only difference, it gains HD instead of class levels, and we won't count XP, but rather have it advance whenever the leading character levels up).Anyways, there are basically two realistic options then...1) The animal is awakened already to begin with (some druid has done that in the past); gonna have to ask the DM about that one, as it probably makes the most sense with the cohort as an intelligent being.2) The character will at some point awaken the animal (with a scroll and UMD), the animal will then not advance any further until the character has gained another 2 levels to compensate for the additional HD; the animal will continue to be a cohort, tho.ByeThanee</blockquote>

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