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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 2673865" data-attributes="member: 20805">Alrighty then... After the discussion of my players able to allow a companion to leave in order to select one more in tune with the environs that the edventure has led.. or simply to replace the poor unfortunate recipeint of a beautiful Crit by the BBG...  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />  I started looking at the companion tables in advance of the game tommorow, expecting at least one of the 2 eligible characters to seek a new companion while they are in a swampy enviroment. Er... the companion lists sux. In a swampland enviroment, the only two eligible options are Crocodile and Dire Rat. Nothing else. Continuing to look at the list, its very haphazard. You can get a companion Camel.. but not a Hyena. You can get a Large Shark {at 4th level}, but not a Manta Ray. Why did they limit the list in this manner? Anyway, this has led to to the thought of redoing the Animal Companion rules in a much more simple fashion:  Animal Companions may be any Animal whose CR is equal to or lower than your Druid Class level {or Ranger class level -3}  In order to determine special abilities of the Companion, your effective level is reduced by the Companions CR {if greater than 1} Using this, a 4th level Druid can select a Lion {CR 3..and not on the RAW lists even tho the Dire Lion is} and the Lion benefits as if the Druid is 1st level.Doing this opens up a swampland list to: Croc, Rat, Dire Rat, Bat, Viper, Lizard, Monitor Lizard, Raven, and {technically} Toad.This ties into my expanded rules for acquiring a companion.. turning the 'spend a day and poof' RAW method with skill checks and effort/hazard on the part of the character better.. as a random calling will have some randomness to it courtesy of more options.This does squish the results down, being able to have a Dire Tiger {CR 9} companion 6 levels before you could per RAW... but considering that Companions are generally considered a weak class ability at higher levels already... and I don't plan on going past 14th level anyway  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Thoughts?</blockquote>

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