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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(Psi)SeveredHead" data-source="post: 132975" data-attributes="member: 1165">Hold on a minute!Woah! Did I miss something here?Let me propose a counter example.Bob tracks down some adventurers who have been despoiling the land, and keep forgetting to put out their campfires.#1) Bob has cast Animal Friendship on a wolf, and therefore has the wolf as a companion. He and the adventurers have a showdown, and in the end the adventurers win, collecting 300 XP.#2) Bob and his wolf ran away to live another day. The adventurers meanwhile have rested and are ready for more hackin' and slashin'!The adventurers come across a wolf (worth 300 XP) and start fighting it. The second round Bob and his wolf companion show up, worth another 300 XP if the adventurers win.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I see two problems here: first of all, in the quoted example, Bob the druid should have an animal companion. Otherwise he's a lot less powerful.Second of all, a wolf's CR is probably too high if it's worth as much as Bob and his wolf <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />I'm going to use a dire bear as an example, since it's CR is probably more reasonable.At 12th-level, Bob has a dire bear as his companion. The dire bear's CR is only 7. Bob and the dire bear have a CR of 12. Bob's CR, without a dire bear, is not 12, since he doesn't have access to all of his abilities (eg animal companions).If you don't believe me, challenge your PCs to fight a druid, and then a druid of the same level with his companions. Then tell me if the solitary druid was worth all those XP.</blockquote>

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