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<blockquote data-quote="Von Ether" data-source="post: 1951624" data-attributes="member: 15582">I'm coming from the player's side, my GM always accused me of &quot;whining&quot; about my 3.0 druid and his animal companions. I'd whine becuause we were either in cities or dungeons and my Entangle spell was usless. I whined because the GM would send mostly undead and demons at us and he'd say, &quot;these supernatural creatures scare your animal companions off the battle map.&quot;I whined that my animals weren't &quot;scaling&quot; with later encounters and he blew me off ... until he read WotC's Wilds book, but I never got a legendary critter.I whined when I asked to spend XP on my animals to make them scaleable and he said, &quot;If you do that, you give them individual thought and make them NPCs.&quot; (DM speak for &quot;I'll make your animal companion's attitude more of a hinderance than a help.)... and then when I leveled a city block with my 8th level spells. beat up entire encounters as a dire ape and made the whole party &quot;super heroes&quot; with 3.0 Wind Walk, he whined to the point he shut down the campaign and started from scratch with six times less XP per encounter.With 3.5 druids we are all much happier. My animal companion is now an &quot;offical&quot; class feature with clear guidelines that the GM doesn't have to &quot;judge&quot; and Wind Walk is tamer.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Von Ether, post: 1951624, member: 15582"] I'm coming from the player's side, my GM always accused me of "whining" about my 3.0 druid and his animal companions. I'd whine becuause we were either in cities or dungeons and my Entangle spell was usless. I whined because the GM would send mostly undead and demons at us and he'd say, "these supernatural creatures scare your animal companions off the battle map." I whined that my animals weren't "scaling" with later encounters and he blew me off ... until he read WotC's [i] Wilds[/i] book, but I never got a legendary critter. I whined when I asked to spend XP on my animals to make them scaleable and he said, "If you do that, you give them individual thought and make them NPCs." (DM speak for "I'll make your animal companion's attitude more of a hinderance than a help.) ... and then when I leveled a city block with my 8th level spells. beat up entire encounters as a dire ape and made the whole party "super heroes" with 3.0 Wind Walk, he whined to the point he shut down the campaign and started from scratch with six times less XP per encounter. With 3.5 druids we are all much happier. My animal companion is now an "offical" class feature with clear guidelines that the GM doesn't have to "judge" and Wind Walk is tamer. [/QUOTE]

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