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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pbd" data-source="post: 2442507" data-attributes="member: 20567">Be careful swithching animal companion (well if you have my DM anyway).  I recently releasd my Druid's animal companion due to repeated death; it was a tiger in an 11th level campaign, the DM likes to throw difficult combats our way (which I like) and the animal companion was not able to keep up.  The druid decided it would be most resposible as the companions "protector" to release it back to its home range, which he did at the earliest opportunity; he did not plan on awakening the companion prior to releasing it, prefering, instead to return it to its natural range and state (it obviously keeps the advancement it achieved as the druid increased in level).  So anyhoo, I decided that the INT 2 tiger wouldn't know the significance of the bracers of armor +2 and ANA +4 it had and would probably scratch them off without the druid watching or they might be a hindrance in the undergorwth, not to mention that they may make it a target to anyone that sees a tiger wearing amgic items.  Plus, with the advancement, it was gonna be king of the forest anyway, so the druid removed the items before releasing it.  The DM made a few noises about this but left it as it was, due (i thought) decause I explained my reasoning.Last night at the next session, the DM says the druid starts having dreams that the animal companion is waiting around the town they were in and was "upset" because the druid had besmirched his honor by "stripping" him of the items.  A short in out of agame arguement ensued, which ended with me basically not agreeing, but being able to do nothing (nothing on this in the books we had on us).  Basically, his world his rules. The items were given back to the tiger and the druid awakened it, so that it would at least know the value of them and be aware enough to know it would become a target now.  One thing is that the amulet was now being used by another party member, who lost it (the druid wasn't using any comparable item that he could replace it with).  The Druid had gotten some flack about letting the copanion use items that others culd use to begin with and this is just gonna piss the group off more.  The other is that he seems to be giving the tiger intelligence it didn't have (at least not until it was awakened), he said it partially influenced by a treant grove he had association with, but that seemed like hand waving to me. Is there anything in the rules that supports either position?  I couldn't find anything from my searches.  How would other DMs adjudicate the releasesing of an unawakened animal companion that had been using magic items.If this needs to be moved to a different area, I apologize.</blockquote>

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