Wild Cohort feat [WotC website]

DevoutlyApathetic said:
Because at level 15 a cute little bunny rabbit is only useful as dinner. With this feat you can get a normal animal that has a chance of surviving and being mildly useful. All in all, the feat looks fine in both concept and execution. I'd use it if I wasn't on a severe 'less is more' kick when it comes to the number of people/creatures in a party.
Why would you have a bunny rabbit at level 15 with normal leadership? At level 15, you'd probably have a very powerful animal as a cohort via leadership. Any DM with 1/2 a brain could figure out what are appropriate animals for a cohort at any given level. Most of them could figure out ways to advance them too to keep them appropriately powered in comparison to the PC.
DevoutlyApathetic said:
Why don't they write some feats that aren't +2 to x and y? Wotc has been scared about being creative for awhile now. I think MotW signalled the end of that, but apparently not.
The 3.5 core books was the place for revision, not for original material. I'm betting that there will be a good amount of new stuff in the Dragon Book and in the Complete Warrior.

Of course, I think they should have delayed these products by three months so that they could properly fix 3.5 before building things on such a flawed foundation. Heck, one week of compilation, contemplation and conversation would be enough for them to provide a set of errata that hit all the major areas that have been the subject of a few thousand threads, email complaints and general disgust.

This feat isn't a horrible idea. I have no idea if it is balanced, but it is a fine idea. I just think it is mostly redundant with Animal Companions and the Leadership feat. Why are they focusing on redundant ideas instead of fixing a faulty foundation?
 

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jgsugden said:
Why would you have a bunny rabbit at level 15 with normal leadership? At level 15, you'd probably have a very powerful animal as a cohort via leadership. Any DM with 1/2 a brain could figure out what are appropriate animals for a cohort at any given level. Most of them could figure out ways to advance them too to keep them appropriately powered in comparison to the PC.

Yep. One option would be an Awakened half-dragon rabbit with 10 or so levels of Rogue ... and "big, nasty teeth". Heh.
 

Does being a half dragon make it 'not an animal'? I know that awaken does. While I think this feat is cool for flavor, and taking it three times or so to make your own personal herd of animals is fun, all in all it just seems like a weak feat. When compared to leadership of course, which is the closest feat I know of in terms of power. You can do everything this feat does, and more, with a feat that already exists.
 



bertman4 said:
I'm yet again disappointed that they do not have rules for taking multiple lower level animal "friends" instead of a single animal "friend." For some druids/rangers/clerics-of-nature-gods/tree-huggers, it makes more sense to have multiple creatures: a gaggle of geese, a murder of ravens, pride of lions, parliament of owls, school of dolphins, colony of bats, cete of badgers, kettle of hawks, etc.

Except that in 3.5, in game terms an unkindness of ravens (or whatever) is a single creature (an Animal with the Swarm subtype). Unless the full feat description somehow limits subtypes, Idon't see a problem.

...or did you just want to show of your knowledge of collective nouns? If so, you got ravens wrong.

Just my €0.02.

glass.
 


It's one thing I like in English -- the really weird names for groups of animals. Generic nouns like hord, flock, swarm, etc. are not used, instead it's jewels like "unkindness of ravens". Wonderfunny. :)


A colony of ants
A shrewdness of apes
A congress of baboons
A cete of badgers
A sloth of bears
A colony of beavers
A grist, hive or swarm of bees
A dissimulation, or volery, of birds
A singular of boars
A drove of cattle
A clowder, or clutter, of cats
A peep of chickens
A clutch of chicks
A chattering of choughs
A bury of conies
A cover of coots
A flight of cormorants
A flink of cows (twelve+)
A sedge of cranes
A murder of crows
A cowardice of curs
A trip of dotterel
A dole, dule, flight, or piteousness, of doves
A paddling, raft, or team, of ducks
A convocation of eagles
A herd of elephants
A gang of elk
A charm of finches
A draught, or school, of fish
An army of frogs
A cast of falcons
A business of ferrets
A leash, or skulk, of foxes
A gaggle, skein, or wedge, of geese
A tribe, or trip, of goats
A band of gorillas
A flight of goshawks
A brace, or covey of grouse
A colony of gulls
A down, husk, or leap, of hares
A cast, or kettle, of hawks
A prickle of hedgehogs
A brood of hens
A siege of herons
A pair, or team, of horses
A cry, mute, or pack, of hounds
A band, or party, of jays
A mob, or troop, of kangaroos
A kindle of kittens
A deceit of lapwings
An exaltation of larks
A leap of leopards
A pride of lions
A tidings of magpies
A sord of mallards
A stud of mares
A richesse of martens
A mob of meerkats
A nest of mice
A tribe of monkeys
A barren of mules
A watch of nightingales
A parliament of owls
A yoke of oxen
A company of parrots
A covey of partridges
A muster, or ostentation, of peacocks
A colony of penguins
A bouquet, cover, or nye, of pheasants
A litter of pigs
A congregation of plovers
An aurora of polar bears
A string of ponies
A bevy, or covey, of quail
A nest of rabbits
A field of racehorses
A conspiracy, or unkindness, of ravens
A crash of rhinos
A parliament of rooks
A spring, or pod, of seals
A flock of sheep
A bed of snakes
A walk, or wisp, of snipe
A host of sparrows
A dray of squirrels
A murmuration of starlings
A muster of storks
A flight of swallows
A bevy, or wedge, of swans
A drift, or sounder, of swine
A hover of trout
A knot of toads
A rafter of turkeys
A dule, or pitying, of turtledoves
A bale of turtles
A nest of vipers
A sneak of weasels
A skein of weavers.
A grunt of weightlifters.
A gam, or pod, of whales
A pack, or rout, of wolves
A descent of woodpeckers
A fart of zebras

For a Vermin version, look at these:
An army of caterpillars
A bed of clams
A business of flies
A cloud, or horde, of gnats
A cluster of grasshoppers
A smuck of jellyfish
A plague of locusts
A bed of oysters
A squirm of worms

This one promise to be quite powerful indeed:
A blessing of unicorns

I also like "a giggle of girls", but that ain't can't be for a wild cohort. Although... ;)
 
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Gez said:
It's one thing I like in English -- the really weird names for groups of animals. Generic nouns like hord, flock, swarm, etc. are not used, instead it's jewels like "unkindness of ravens". Wonderfunny. :)

I've seen parts of this list on the web, and some of them are correct,
but somehow I don't think zebras come in "farts".
 


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