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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 133363" data-attributes="member: 259">Well, I've played 3E on an almost weekly basis since it was released; since July, I've played a druid in RttToEE.  And we've been thinking that #3 is true.A brown bear or a tiger can rip up opponents like nobody's business, especially if they receive a mage armor spell.  I'd certainly rather be attacked by a 6th-level fighter than by a brown bear:-the fighter moves more slowly-each hit from the fighter probably does less damage-the fighter doesn't try to grapple me with each hit-the fighter gets one less attack/round.In his favor, the fighter gets a higher AC (but not by much, if the bear has a mage armor on), the ability to use items, and most importantly, ranged weapons.If you don't believe me, try a battle between a standard 6th-level fighter from the DMG and a bear with mage armor cast on her.  To be fair, the fighter's already drunk the potion of endurance.  Start the two characters 100' apart, and don't allow retreating.The fighter gets off four arrows, assuming the bear double-moves forward and loses initiative, before the bear charges the fighter and gets to attack at +13 (including the bonus for charging).Then make your grapple checks:  bears get improved grab.  The fighter grapples at +9 (+6 BAB, +3 STR); the bear grapples at +16 (+4 BAB, +8 str, +4 size).  Almost half the time, the battle will end right here:  once the fighter is grappled, he can't use any weapons except ones too small to present a credible threat to the bear.  The bear, meanwhile, will continue to do greater than 15 points of damage each round to the poor fighter on average -- this isn't counting criticals.Given that a bear is, under many circumstances, a better fighter than a sixth-level fighter, how much worse an encounter is a bear accompanied by a sixth-level druid?  For starters, the bear can have +2 to each bite and claw attack (from 3 GMF's).In our experience, the druid character with his animal companions rips more people to shreds than just about any other character in the party.  I definitely don't think druids are too weak under the current system.Daniel</blockquote>

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