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<blockquote data-quote="Fast Learner" data-source="post: 59706" data-attributes="member: 649">From the Dungeon Master's Guide (not a &quot;clarification&quot; document), page 46:&quot;Druids and rangers can use the animal friendship spell&nbsp; to gain animal companions, which are something like cohorts. Use these rules of thumb when characters have animal companions.While the spell allows for a character to have animals whose Hit Dice total double the character's caster level, that maximum assumes optimal conditions. The typical adventurer should be able to maintain animal companions who Hit Dice total half the maximum (caster level for a druid, half of caster level for a ranger). If the character spends most of her time in the animals' home territory and treats them well, she can approach and even achieve her maximum Hit Dice. If she spends most of her time at sea, in cities, or othewise in places that the animals don't like, her animals desert, and she will not be able to retain even half her maximum....&quot;So it's not the clarification document: it's core rulebook stuff. That's where it's coming from.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fast Learner, post: 59706, member: 649"] From the [b]Dungeon Master's Guide[/b] (not a "clarification" document), page 46: "Druids and rangers can use the [i]animal friendship[/i] spell to gain animal companions, which are something like cohorts. Use these rules of thumb when characters have animal companions. While the spell allows for a character to have animals whose Hit Dice total double the character's caster level, that maximum assumes optimal conditions. The typical adventurer should be able to maintain animal companions who Hit Dice total half the maximum (caster level for a druid, half of caster level for a ranger). If the character spends most of her time in the animals' home territory and treats them well, she can approach and even achieve her maximum Hit Dice. If she spends most of her time at sea, in cities, or othewise in places that the animals don't like, her animals desert, and she will not be able to retain even half her maximum...." So it's not the clarification document: it's core rulebook stuff. That's where it's coming from. [/QUOTE]

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