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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Perun" data-source="post: 1316742" data-attributes="member: 6037">Ranger animal companions are one of the things we house ruled in our game. Now ranger can have an animal companion as if he were druid of three levels lower, i.e. a 4th-level ranger is treated as a 1st-level druid for determining the abilities (and his choice) of the animal companion.We thought over this a bit, and decided it was OK to do it. Druid and ranger have the same HD (d8), their armour proficiencies can be argued to amount approximately to the same thing (ranger is proficient with light armour only, where the druid has proficiency in both light and medium armour, but he's restricted to non-metallic armour only, so it essentially evens out), and while the rnager has the better BAB, druid has way better spellcasting. Rangers do get more skill points, but when you take all these things into account, it simply doesn't seem very fair to have rangers companion be only one-half as strong as the druid's. Besides, then the companion is near useless to a 20-th level ranger (if he started out with a wolf -- the best choice for low-level druids and rangers -- that wolf would have a whooping 8 HD at ranger's 20th-level, whereas the druid's wolf would be at 14 HD).Regards.</blockquote>