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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7828986" data-attributes="member: 6704184">The fact that you insist on continuing to imply that anyone that wants a specific mechanism for regaining the pet when it dies, isn’t a pet lover, is both dishonest, overwrought (we are talking a game, not my actual dog who is sleeping with head on my lap right now), and insulting. Knock it the hell off. Grow up. The fact that you keep responding to me as if I’m talking about replacing the pet when I have exclusively talked about regaining the pet, tells me that you’re just skimming people’s post in order to be argumentative. And I don’t care about your grudge against wotc. As for the revised ranger, I never said wotc had fixed the ranger already. Stop replying to people as if they’d said crap they didn’t say.  It’s both rude, and makes you look like you aren’t paying attention. What I said, repeating myself for hopefully the last time, is that they have accomplished the goal of a balanced pet that doesn’t die frequently. The revised beast master ranger, in total, is not more powerful than other PHB classes, and it has a pet that won’t die any more often than most PCs. Your claim that it can’t be done is objectively false. It has been proven false. It also has a mechanism for bringing the pet back, because most BM players are going to want to know that they can bring their pet back, and thus feel comfortable bringing it into danger in the first place. I’d never let my dog anywhere near a fight IRL, bc I have no way to magically heal him, and if he dies that’s it. Part of playing a BM Ranger is playing the fantasy of my pet never being permanently gone. OTOH, asking the player to sacrifice the components and demand the service of another PC in order to regain their entire subclass, is just bonkers-level bad design. Having the mechanism for resurrection in the hands of the ranger does not imply anything of the sort that you claim it does. It literally just means that the ranger in a group with no cleric or Druid can still keep their subclass after it gets hit by a maxed out lighting bolt partway through a tough fight. Just like could happen to the rogue or the wizard. The wolf has better armor than a normal wolf, rogue level HP, and proficiency on all saves. It isn’t equal to a PC, or even half a PC, or whatever, but it keeps up in terms of durability, and it contributes damage that brings the BM on par with other damage focused characters.</blockquote>

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