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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6697348" data-attributes="member: 1465">I don't think I managed to explain my idea clealy at all... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />No rules. No costs. No feats or class features or anything.You want to have a panther with you? Have it. Just stop thinking of the panther as if it was your third arm or another dagger in your pocket. Think of it as another PC. Just like you do when you convince an NPC to come along with the party and help you in a quest. What is the difference after all?Maybe give the panther its share of treasure (not just like that, but meaning provide food and cover other expenses) and XP (from the party pool, not your own!). Or even ignore the XP, anyway the DM is still responsible for providing encounters of suitable difficulty and to pace level advancement as appropriate, who cares how the DM technically does that.The only thing left to sort out is who controls the panther. There are at least three options:- the DM has full control, the player interacts with it via roleplay (in the same way as with NPCs) and possibly some occasional check- the DM lets the player have some limited control (e.g. can give combat commands but not choose the specifics) but the DM can always override it- player has full controlWhat is actually the real problem with the latter? The only problem is the player getting more playing time. But that is anyway almost always the case when a PC has a pet (except in default 5e), so if this is a dealbreaker for you then reduce player's control accordingly.Anyway, I have played games of D&D where some players had more than one PC! As long as such players know the game enough so as not to get everyone stuck while they resolve their turns, it works fine.Personally I think that what is blocking everyone is the habit of seeing the pet an extension of the PC. That's why everyone thinks there has to be costs and restrictions, and carefully balanced rules, but the endless design mill across editions proves they are impossible to achieve. We wouldn't need them at all if we could see the pet an another PC of its own.</blockquote>

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