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<blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 2922912" data-attributes="member: 4682">I agree that is it a DM's own read of the rules, but I don't see where it is a &quot;major DM interpolation&quot;.&nbsp; The paladin's getting special mount is already &quot;at the DM's option.&quot;&nbsp; &nbsp; Seems rather pedestrian to me especially applying the DMG guideline of at least an additional +2 level adjustment to the ECL.&nbsp; The holy liberator entry mentions high-level HLs having powerful celestial allies from animals to ghaele eladrins.&nbsp; Major interpolation? *shrug*I'm actually finding it to be a subpar choice in the end for a cohort/companion.&nbsp; All of the choices for holy liberator celestial companions, except the heavy war horse maybe (and my character is not built for mounted combat), are remarkably weak for the level they would minimally be acquired at.&nbsp; Except for the horses, they are about as fragile as a sorcerer's familiar and about as useful.&nbsp; Luckily as celestial companions are &quot;called&quot; magical beasts, like the paladin special mount, I don't have to have it around when I get into trouble. So I'm probably going to ask DM's permission to return to the plain old celestial house pet that I can instead not call and a bring back a wizard cohort. He had a nice combination of quickened enlarge person on my character followed by polymorph on my character into a troll or annis hag.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AdmundfortGeographer, post: 2922912, member: 4682"] I agree that is it a DM's own read of the rules, but I don't see where it is a "major DM interpolation". The paladin's getting special mount is already "at the DM's option." Seems rather pedestrian to me especially applying the DMG guideline of at least an additional +2 level adjustment to the ECL. The holy liberator entry mentions high-level HLs having powerful celestial allies from animals to ghaele eladrins. [i]Major[/i] interpolation? *shrug* I'm actually finding it to be a subpar choice in the end for a cohort/companion. All of the choices for holy liberator celestial companions, except the heavy war horse maybe (and my character is not built for mounted combat), are remarkably weak for the level they would minimally be acquired at. Except for the horses, they are about as fragile as a sorcerer's familiar and about as useful. Luckily as celestial companions are "called" magical beasts, like the paladin special mount, I don't have to have it around when I get into trouble. So I'm probably going to ask DM's permission to return to the plain old celestial house pet that I can instead not call and a bring back a wizard cohort. He had a nice combination of quickened [i]enlarge person[/i] on my character followed by [i]polymorph[/i] on my character into a troll or annis hag. [/QUOTE]

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