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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 994748" data-attributes="member: 1656">As long as the animal companion uses the "Adventuring Druid" rule (HD equal to druid's level) and not the "Stay-at-Home Druid" rule (HD equal to twice the druid's level), it's perfectly reasonable.Animal Companions are a class feature of druids, and lions are Core creatures - it's not as if he's using unbalanced stuff from splatbooks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It's a bit like saying "That fighter shouldn't be allowed to use his feats!" or "That rogue shouldn't be allowed to sneak attack!"If the rules of the Arena are strictly "single combat", it would be valid to disallow any other creature in the arena, including animal companions, cohorts, paladin's mounts, familiars, and/or any summoning spells.  But if the idea is to pit one 8th level character and all his class features against another 8th level character and all his class features, then if one of them has spent a feat on Leadership, his 7th level cleric cohort is one of his class features, and should be allowed... just like the druid's animal companion.-Hyp.</blockquote>