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<blockquote data-quote="Asgorath" data-source="post: 7765409" data-attributes="member: 6921966">A Pact of the Chain Warlock's Familiar is vastly superior as an exploration companion, as you can have invisible creatures that you can communicate with telepathically.&nbsp; How is a Beast Master's companion anywhere close to this useful?&nbsp; One might argue that an invisible familiar providing the Help action every round (similar to a Wizard's Owl familiar) is a better combat support option as well.&nbsp; Also, when either of those Familiars die, you just spend 10g and summon another one with basically no consequences.Any character can do what you suggest in your last line, so again, we're circling back to why would anyone ever play a Beast Master Ranger in its current form?&nbsp; I just don't see how the Beast Master's companion is better at any of the things you listed above, especially when one of the options on the table is just &quot;get an NPC who just happens to be a beast and have it act as a full party member&quot;.&nbsp; If the Beast Master's companion isn't supposed to be used in combat, why are essentially all its special abilities related to combat?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Asgorath, post: 7765409, member: 6921966"] A Pact of the Chain Warlock's Familiar is vastly superior as an exploration companion, as you can have invisible creatures that you can communicate with telepathically. How is a Beast Master's companion anywhere close to this useful? One might argue that an invisible familiar providing the Help action every round (similar to a Wizard's Owl familiar) is a better combat support option as well. Also, when either of those Familiars die, you just spend 10g and summon another one with basically no consequences. Any character can do what you suggest in your last line, so again, we're circling back to why would anyone ever play a Beast Master Ranger in its current form? I just don't see how the Beast Master's companion is better at any of the things you listed above, especially when one of the options on the table is just "get an NPC who just happens to be a beast and have it act as a full party member". If the Beast Master's companion isn't supposed to be used in combat, why are essentially all its special abilities related to combat? [/QUOTE]

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