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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 3161506" data-attributes="member: 29252"><p>Slave?  Ignored outside of combat and training?  Where do you get that impression?  Sure, the combat stuff and the training stuff is used to optimize the AC for combat (duh), but that's hardly the only aspect.  The Druid finds the AC appropriet food (Survival is a class skill, after all), keeps it clean, watches over it while it sleeps, and finds the best dens to rest in.  The Druid asks the AC to go nowhere the Druid doesn't.  The Druid asks the AC to face no pack that the Druid doesn't face as well.  The Druid makes the AC stronger.  By the time the Druid can have a Dire Wolf animal companion (7th), he can get 1d3 of them on a round's notice with Summon nature's Ally IV.  If, by some bizzare circumstance it came to it, the Druid could win in a dominance battle (although not necessarily easily, mind....).  They are packmates.  The Druid just happens to be the alpha.  Beta's obey alphas.  It's just the way it goes.  Why do you think dogs make such loyal companions in real life?</p></blockquote><p></p>