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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asgorath" data-source="post: 7487825" data-attributes="member: 6921966">If you give the order to "attack those Goblins over there", then yeah, a reasonable interpretation would be that the companion attacks them all until they are dead.  If one Goblin dies, then it just moves to the next one, probably just picking the closest one.  This seems very reasonable, particularly for an intelligent beast.  You shouldn't have to say "Okay move 10 feet in that direction, now attack that Goblin.  Good boy!  Now move 5 feet to your right.  No that's too far.  Okay now attack that other Goblin.  Great, you killed it, now run over there.  Wait that's too far again.  Now attack that Goblin who's now in front of you" and so if they are going to errata this part of the rules to make it clear that you can in fact just give the order to "attack those Goblins over there" and then your companion will do its best to follow that order on subsequent turns, that would be a pretty good change in my opinion.  Similarly, if there are 4 Goblins and 1 Orc, then an intelligent creature could reasonably assume you meant to attack them all, and would include the Orc in its target list.Another good option would be to make it clear you can order your companion to just follow and assist you, i.e. just attack whatever you are attacking.  Again, the companion should be an intelligent creature, not a mindless undead creature.I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the new errata says, but I'm suspecting it'll be something along these lines in order to free up the Ranger's actions on subsequent turns and let the companion continue to follow an order in a reasonable manner.</blockquote>

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