![]() Masterful Companion Animal Companion StatsĪnimal Companions use stats similar to a monster, rather than similar to a player character.Companion’s Cry allows the Ranger to give their companion an additional action (at the expense of another one of the Ranger’s actions), allowing you to rely more on your companion as your primary combat option rather than simply as an extension of your own martial capabilities. The Ranger’s Animal Companion feat allows the Ranger to apply Hunter’s Edge, which can add considerably to the companion’s capabilities. Ranger: While the Ranger doesn’t get feats which improve their Animal Companion as early as the Druid, they get more feat options, and can do more with their companion than the Druid can.Multiclassing into Ranger to get Companion’s Cry looks very tempting, but remember that it takes an Action to use on top of the Action required to Command your companion, so you’ll likely be unable to cast spells in the same turn that you use Companion’s Cry. They also get access to feats which progress your Animal Companion two levels earlier than the Ranger. Druid: Druids have the easiest access to Animal Companions at 1st level, gaining the feat for free with the Animal Druid Order.The Champion’s Steed Ally is almost exclusively a mount, and its other capabilities are largely neglected. Champions get some unique feats that let your companion do some cool things like taking a single Stride or Strike without you spending an Action to Command them, and they get a whole bunch of fun divine stuff to add to their companion, but don’t expect to use your companion as a pet attack dog. You can select other options with the GM’s permission, but the Horse is a fine choice. The expectation is that you will select the Horse, and that’s a fine choice, especially if you don’t intend to advance your companion. Champion: The Champion’s access to Animal Companions is very clearly dedicated to using the companion as a mount.While there is overlap in the core Animal Companion feats, some classes have exclusive feats, and classes often get the same feat at different levels. Multiple classes offer access to Animal Companions. Blue: Fantastic options, often essential.Red: Bad, useless options, or options whichĪre extremely situational.RPGBOT uses the color coding scheme which has become common among Pathfinder build handbooks. In more mechanical terms, an Animal Companion is a powerful addition to your character’s capabilities, allowing them to fight as though they were in two places at once, and allowing the companion and your character to fight as more than the sum of their parts. ![]() The image of an adventurer braving the wilds with a loyal beast at their side is evocative and exciting, and it naturally appeals to players. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.Animal Companions have been a staple thematic element of druids and rangers since at least 3rd edition DnD. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. ![]() Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition.
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