Blog (A5E) Player Options in Pets & Sidekicks

[Morrus]

Pets & Sidekicks is a big book, filled with all sorts of content for your game—dozens and dozens of pets which level up with you, rules for acquiring and training them, long-time foes and allies, and so much more. But today we’re going to look at the player options found in Chapter 3.

• 12 new feats — Beast Speaker, Beastly Companionship. Bonded Companion, Advanced Bonded Companion, Expert Rider, Expert Roper, Ferocious Flanker, Mighty Companion, Pet Trainer, Ringleader, Trusted Lieutenant, War Leader.
• New background — Beast Friend.
• New class features — new practised techniques for the adept, adventuring tricks for the bard, developed talents for the berserker, heroic wild shapes for the druid, soldiering knacks for the fighter, lessons of war for the marchal, a new involcation for the walock.
• 7 new archetypes — Sculptor artificer, Interceder cleric, Cavalier herald, Tutor marshal, Shadow Tamer rogue, Necromaster sorcerer, Familiarist wizard.

Of course, the book contains so much more! Teach your pets 13 tricks, choose from over 70 heroic features for your companions as they level up, and 19 heroic flaws, 14 new equipment items, nearly 50 new magic items, and dozens and dozens of heroic allies and companions, all of which can level up as you do.