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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wulf Ratbane" data-source="post: 1672635" data-attributes="member: 94">There's nothing wrong with stating it explicitly; I don't think it's exposing a flaw, and it's in agreement with UK's nitty-gritties. He rates the druid at 1.2406 CR per level, second behind only the cleric at 1.3196. (The rogue trails the pack at 1.09.)Does this information entice me to use his Silver Rule to balance out the built in PC advantage compared to monster CRs? Nope. Does this information encourage me to abandon 1 CL = 1 CR and to adopt a standard specific to each class? Nope.Does it encourage me to move in any way towards a more granular (and supposedly accurate) accounting of PC abilities? Not in the slightest.But it does provide a bit of hard crunch to back up my opinion, formed simply through lots of anecdotal experience, that it might be better to track animal companions as separate combatants.One might note that neither animal companions (druid or paladin) nor familiars nor Leadership made it into Grim Tales as either feats or talents. That wasn't by accident. I don't believe that individual creatures should be lumped under the abilities of a "master," not in terms of their participation in combat nor even in terms of assuming their loyalty. I think in all such cases they should be removed from "assumed" as class abilities and returned to the realm of good role-playing.Wulf</blockquote>