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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mortaneus" data-source="post: 58125" data-attributes="member: 485">*sigh*  It's a great book.  I like the prestige classes (especially the tempest...woohoo!), the feats are cool, the spells rock (BEWARE the druid), and the equipment section is pretty cool.BUT.......There is one thing in the book that is driving me up the wall, and which was VERY poorly implemented, AND requires errata.Read through the sections on Animal Companions.First of all, apparently now you can't have an animal companion that has more HD than you do.Second, according to a VERY non-specific line contained in the legendary animals section, it mentions that the TOTAL HD of a druid's animal companions cannot be greater than the druid's HD.  (except at 1st level)I mean, COME ON WotC.....who the heck is editing these things?  It looks like somebody slapped in some rules changes somewhere in the design process, but nobody bothered to explain the changes to us.  They just reference them (confusingly, I might add) at various points in the book.Well, I'm sorry, but I can't cast divination or legend lore to determine what the authors really meant, and with ABSOLUTELY NO justification, reason, or method, apparently the animal companion abilities of Druids and Rangers got arbitrarily changed, severely weakened, and they didn't even bother to inform us of the fact.Now I don't know about you, but the animal companions were one of my favorite benefits to playing a druid or a ranger.  Why did they choose to suddenly change this completely???In addition, if you go by what the book says, going by the line in the legendary animals section, then unless a druid has a ring of animal friendship, he has no more total hit dice of animal companions than the ranger does, despite an equal level ranger casting at only half the druid's caster level.Sheesh....somewhere along the line at WotC central, somebody is screwing things up.BTW, as far as needing errata, check out the math on page 9 under the monsters section.  'A centaur makes an excellent druid because.......Her level equivalent is her class level+7, so a 1st-level centaur druid would be appropriate for a 6th level party.'  Umm......huh???  This mistake is also repeated elsewhere.  Did the people changing these things even read the *%^& book????Again, sheesh.</blockquote>

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