NPC Codex Preview: Animals Can't Vote

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

The NPC Codex is just 2 weeks away, and it's time to talk about an often-forgotten, underprivileged group of creatures: animal companions!

In addition to featuring hundreds of complete NPC stat blocks, this book presents 45 fully statted animal companions, generally two or three for each effective druid level. An asterisk (*) after an animal companion's name indicates that only druids (not rangers) can select that type of companion.

The druids in the NPC Codex are built with a nature domain instead of an animal companion, but it's a simple matter to replace the domain spells and domain granted powers for an animal companion. Likewise, the rangers are built with nature bond (companions), but as that has no effect on the ranger's stat block, it's easy to replace that ability with an animal companion.

Because animal companions have the same stats whether the character is a PC or an NPC, you can even use these animal companion stat blocks for your PCs.

Remember, it's election day in the US—vote, because animals can't!

Sean K Reynolds
Designer