CapnZapp
Legend
Yes. Offering free resurrection only reveals you (the designer) hasn't understood the criticisms at all.So, I know this was forever ago in this thread, but I felt this need to respond to this. In my experience, this is completely false. Every beastmaster ranger I have ever seen has wanted to take a named pet, such as Umber the Wolf from my most recent Ranger, and keep them going throughout the entire game.
In fact, losing Umber would have been utterly devastating to her character. Threatening Umber with damage or death was a tool used by many an evil individual, sometimes to great success. And, this was using the Revised Ranger (she initially didn’t want to go revised, but after a session or two as a PHB Beastmaster she asked to go ahead and shift over) which meant we all knew Umber could be easily brought back to life.
The proper response is to offer a robust pet that dies just as often as the other party members, which is to say, not often at all.
The proper response to THAT is to recognize this makes the Beastmaster more powerful than other subclasses, and say so clearly in a sidebar, making it a subclass that requires your DMs approval to play.