Questions tagged [animal-companions]
Questions about an animal that is kept for companionship; a pet.
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How can a Beast Master ranger's animal companion overcome resistance to non-magical attacks?
The 5e Beast Master ranger's animal companion has a rather significant drawback in some mid- or high-level campaigns. Because animal companions never gain the magical attack feature and due to the ...
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What counts as an attack for the Attack action of a Beast Master ranger's animal companion?
Monsters have attacks listed among their actions. From the Basic Rules:
The most common actions that a monster will take in combat are melee and ranged attacks. [...] Any damage dealt or other ...
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Can a Beast Master command their stirge companion to use Blood Drain and then Dodge on subsequent turns, dealing damage due to blood loss?
I'm trying to optimize the damage done by a ranged Beast Master ranger, and was thinking of choosing the Stirge as a companion.
Blood Drain. Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, 5 (1d4 + 3) piercing ...
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Does the Devoted Tracker feat allow you to take an unconventional animal companion?
The paladin mount allows the character to take unconventional creatures as their mounts, such as dragons, magical beasts and things like that.
The druid/ranger animal companion must be an animal.
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What Enchantment wizard spells would synergize well with a Beast Master ranger's animal companion? [closed]
I'm just getting into my first character, and planning on eventually multiclassing Beast Master ranger and Enchantment wizard.
What enchantment wizard spells would synergize well with a Beast Master'...
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How can I homebrew a unique demonic animal companion for my player's moon druid? [closed]
As a DM I get a question from one of my players in my group, there are five people. However, it is the third level tiefling moon druid who asked "if he can have an animal companion later on in the ...
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Can my AL halfling ranger have a pteranodon animal companion?
Is it Adventurers League legal for a halfling ranger to use the Pteranodon as an animal companion in Eberron where halflings routinely ride dinosaurs?
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Does a Ranger's animal companion level up when multiclassing?
I'm currently playing a level 4 ranger and I'm thinking about multi-classing. I want to know if my animal companion gains a level when I take a level that isn't in Ranger?
Thank you for helping.
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At third-level, are rangers allowed to select a drake as their animal companion?
I wasn't able to find anything about this in 5th Edition. A drake seems that it would exceed the 1/4 challenge rating stated in the PHB.
In this specific campaign, our Dungeon Master allows anything ...
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How can a Druid get an animal companion? [duplicate]
I was wondering whether or not there is any non homebrew method other than multi-classing, for a druid character to get an animal companion. If not I would appreciate some advice for implementing the ...
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As a Beast Conclave revised ranger, how do I calculate my ape companion's statistics?
I'm trying to do the maths on the statistics for an ape companion for the UA revised ranger beastmaster. However, I'm a little confused with its +5 to both attacks. Is that based on Strength + Prof? I ...
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How to calculate a revised ranger's animal companion's skill bonuses?
The Beast Conclave revised ranger (from Unearthed Arcana: Revised Ranger) gains an animal companion. The Companion's Bond feature description states:
Your companion uses your proficiency bonus ...
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Does a swarm monger druid get an animal companion if they take Animal Ally?
If a swarm monger druid takes the Nature Soul and Animal Ally feat, can the swarm monger have a rat familiar and a dire rat animal companion? Would the final sentence of Animal ally bring the dire rat ...
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How is a bonded mount's base attack bonus calculated?
A paladin can choose a bonded mount at level 5. It references the Animal Companion feature from the Druid class.
This is the animal companion’s base attack bonus. An animal companion’s base attack ...
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Do characters know when their familiars/animal companions die?
The find familiar spell description states:
When the familiar drops to 0 hit points, it disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It reappears after you cast this spell again.
While your ...
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How does the Beast Master Ranger's Extra Attack work?
According to the PHB, the Beast Master's companion acts on your initiative but can't attack, dash, disengage, dodge, or help unless you consume your action to command it to do so. That said, there is ...
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If Beast Master Rangers could use bonus actions to attack with their companion, what problems would occur?
If a clause was added to Beast Master Rangers to allow them to spend a bonus action to have their companion to make a single attack after the ranger makes their own Attack action, what would the ...
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Animal companions for rangers getting a mule or donkey instead of pony or horse
I am in a pathfinder group and the entire group is new to the game, we are using just the core rulebook.
I have a ranger and as I won't be able to get boon companion - any pet can easily be a ...
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How to balance a character that stole enemy pets?
Me and my players are running Hoard of the Dragon Queen and we just reached the dragon hatchery. One of my dragonborn players reached the Drake Nursery. Through some Animal Handling check, the ability ...
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Can a Beast Master ranger's Animal Companion do extra damage from the Hunter's Mark spell?
My Beast Master Ranger player is looking to use his hunter's mark bonus on his animal companion's attack action. Is the hunter's mark damage bonus strictly only for the ranger's attacks, or since the ...
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Share monk AC bonus with animal companion mount?
I have a swift and deadly hunter variant druid, who gains “Bonus to Armor Class when unarmored (as monk, including Wisdom bonus to AC).”
He rides his animal companion as a mount. I was wondering if ...
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Awakened animals and class levels
Let's say that I am a lv9 druid who just cast Awaken on my wolf animal companion. I feel like I don't fully understand the mechanical changes that occur as a result. What I understand so far is:
Wolf ...
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Druid animal companion… with leadership feat?
A druid can have an animal companion which levels with the druid. An animal companion gets +1 to an ability score at level 4, 9, 14, and 20. An animal with 3 intelligence can take normal feats.
Thus, ...
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Guidelines on giving magical equipment to Animal Companions
As levels progress, the two UA Beast Conclave Rangers in my party feel their pets and their non-magical attacks are getting less and less efficient. They suggested some side-quests to fetch magical ...
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Can a rider that's not astride an animal companion make a mounted charge?
Making a charge is a full-round action, but, unless a rider's mount is also an animal companion, it seems the rider must take a move action to make a Handle Animal skill check to handle the animal so ...
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How long would it take for me to train my animal companion to use a shortsword?
I am using the UA Revised Ranger in one of our D&D games. I am currently 2nd level and have had my Ranger animal companion from the start instead of summoning him at 3rd level (the wolf doesn't ...
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How do I tame an animal? [closed]
I just want to ask since I'm basically new to the game: taming an animal seems interesting, so how does it work and what do I need to do it? What rules or guidelines exist around how one can tame a ...
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Does the Pathfinder Cat animal companion get minus AC and Atk Roll for being large?
Here's what the SRD says for Cat, Big
Starting statistics: Size Medium; Speed 40 ft.; AC +1 natural armor; Attack bite (1d6), 2 claws (1d4); Ability Scores Str 13, Dex 17, Con 13, Int 2, Wis 15, ...
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As a lich, how can I preserve my animal companion?
As the only requirements for gaining the lich template are a caster level of 11 and the Craft Wondrous Item feat, our entire party (all of whom are classes that get at least 6th level spells) has been ...
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Sharing the Fast Healing ability with an Animal Companion
Does the animal companion's Share Spells feature allow a druid/ranger who has fast healing to share it with their animal companion?
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Does the player have control of a Ranger's Companion?
There are many ways to create new creatures in D&D 5e, one of which is animate objects which gives the player full control of the creatures when he/she uses a bonus action:
As a bonus action, ...
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What companions have been for sale for Adventurers League players at Fai Chen’s Fantastical Faire?
Fai Chen’s Fantastical Faire is described as a trading opportunity for Adventurers League players. It is also reported that there are opportunities to buy other consumable items but also “companions”: ...
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How should I resolve the ranger's companion being sent off on a solo mission?
In our last session Diana, the party's ranger ordered her cougar companion to perform a task on its own (completely related to the companion's trainings).
The first one was completely safe in terms ...
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Brontotherium Stat block Missing Damage
As the title states, the Brontotherium animal companion listing is missing something from its stat block.
It states in its special abilities from 7th level advancement that it gets powerful charge (...
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Would it be troublesome to allow a ranger to have a CR 1 beast (or dragon)?
Looking over the CR 1/4 beasts, they seem rather weak. I think it would be more beneficial to allow a ranger to obtain a CR 1 beast. Seeming as rangers receive a beast companion at level 3 (if they ...
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Does the ranger's companion get to make death saving throws?
I play the role of a cleric in a game that also has a ranger.
This ranger happens to have a wolf as a companion. It happened a couple of time that the wolf fell to 0 hp and was declare dead by the DM.
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Will it pose problems if I allow my Dragonborn ranger to have a pseudodragon beast companion?
It's my first time DMing and my naive friend was asking to get a dragon as his beast companion. I immediately shut him down and redirected him to the proper place in the PHB to find CR 1/4 beasts.
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Can a druid/summoner make his eidolon also his animal companion?
Is there an option that allows a multiclass druid/summoner to combine his animal companion and his eidolon into one creature?
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What determines “effective cohort level”?
I'm making a Lion Shaman Druid and was interested in picking up a Dragonne as my Monstrous Companion at higher levels. A Dragonne is a 9 HD / CR 7 magical beast. What is its effective Cohort level?
I'...
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How do I resolve the attack of a Ranger's Animal Companion when they are acting independently?
If a Ranger's Animal Companion independently attacks a target that the Ranger is not also attacking, how do you resolve its success and damage? I am assuming that Animal Companions don't have moves ...
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Does the Death Curse also apply to animal companions?
My character, affected by the Death Curse, has a pet donkey he is really fond of and brings with him everywhere (protecting it from harm).
Is the donkey (or any animal companion that partakes in ...
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What happens when a Ranger makes a Wild Shaped Druid into an animal companion?
What would happen if a ranger were to (willingly or unwillingly) turn a druid into their Ranger Companion?
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Can my wolf attack when I’m riding her? [duplicate]
There are some question arising from my animal companion. We are using the Unearthed Arcana version of the ranger and I chose the beast master. I have this wolf and I can ride it because I’m small (I’...
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How is possible for a level 3 UA Ranger to keep his Companion alive?
I'm a first time player of D&D and have started the starter set's campaign with a group of friends that also wanted to play the game.
For the character I was intrigued by the idea of a ranger ...
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Does Your Animal Companion Only Get 2 Skill Proficiencies or Does It Get More?
In Unearthed Arcana, Revised Ranger it has a section in the beast conclave archetype that tells you to pick two skills for your animal companion to be proficient in.
Your animal companion gains ...
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How to transform an Animal Companion into a cohort NPC when awakened?
Let's assume a lvl 9 druid casts Awaken on its Animal Companion. As explained by rules :
Most pointedly, awakened animals can no longer serve as companions, and the character must follow the rules ...
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In what situation is the “come” trick necessary or useful for an animal companion?
I have hitherto just sort of assumed that an animal companion generally tries to stay near its master unless given commands or presented with strange situations. I may be wrong about this premise, but ...
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What do I do if a player attempts to use Handle Animal vs an animal companion?
If there is a ranger or a druid or something that has an animal companion/familiar/equivalent, and a player tries to attempt an Handle Animal check to get it to do what they want, would it be an ...
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How to handle a Ranger's companion in urban environments?
A Ranger (level 3 Neutral Good Human) in my 5e campaign commanded his panther companion to follow him into a city. I was surprised that the player made this choice since I had assumed the companion ...
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Permenant companion as PC [closed]
I'm starting a new campaign. One player is a druid. I allowed him to have a pseudodragon as his permanent companion. Any tips on putting it on a character sheet and making this a viable character?
