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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 9682647" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I’ll wait to voteBut my wife likes using 2024 but the primal companion is replaced by an expert sidekick. She also used the revised BM for years and it was good, but she wanted to switch to 2024 and the dm for that campaign offered some class fixes that might make her either switch to pure ranger (she’s currently more Druid) or make Druid the smaller part of her build, and companion as expert is a big pet of that. I’ve seen people propose using the Battlesmith as a model for the BM, complete with at-will healing and giving the beast a protective reaction and making its attacks deal force damage. I’ve also seen proposals that suggest that freeing up the rangers action economy solves the issues with the subclass, or that making the beast share spell effects with you from level 3 does so. I have different ideas as well, such as letting the beast help, disengage, or dash, as a bonus action (no requirement on your actions) and adding the steel defender’s protective reaction, so the beast can always at least give you advantage every single round of combat. I also like the idea of giving the BM find familiar. No buffs to the spell, just let them have a secondary magic beast pet that is more for utility. A friend suggested using find familiar but opening the choices up to any beast, fey, or monstrosity, with a 4 or lower intelligence, under a certain CR, and removing the non-attacking clause. That seems more complicated and needs more testing than other options, however, so it isn’t one I super like. One I do kinda potentially like is to copy and rewrite either summon beast or Find Steed, give the resulting spell to BM with 1/day free cast, complete with “it gains more stuff if you cast as at level 4” and general scaling by spell level. for SB you’d modify it to the spell to last indefinitely like find steed.</blockquote>

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