How do we calculate hit points gained for animal companions as the player advances. This question has come up a lot recently.

up to the dm. I do it just as the players. Meaning full at level 1 roll there after. But other use avage hp per dice or have different systems. My advice is do it just like the pc's

Hopefully, this too will be covered in v2.1.

I would not count on it. Like all HD the way you roll them is up to the DM

Specifically, there seems to be a need for a standard for Organized Play. We can't have Sam from Hoboken with his Animal Companion having more hp than Georgia from St. Louis, even though they are both playing druids with the same stats and the same level, showing up for the same session at GenCon.

heh this will be funny but I did not notice this was in the PFS forum. I would say it goes off HD. As they are d8's they gain the nomrl amount of the d8 classes

Specifically, there seems to be a need for a standard for Organized Play. We can't have Sam from Hoboken with his Animal Companion having more hp than Georgia from St. Louis, even though they are both playing druids with the same stats and the same level, showing up for the same session at GenCon.

Average hit points per HD. For d8, that's 4.5 x HD rounded down.

(This is a Pathfinder Society ruling, btw, since this is the Pathfinder Society forum.)

Arnim Thayer wrote:

Specifically, there seems to be a need for a standard for Organized Play. We can't have Sam from Hoboken with his Animal Companion having more hp than Georgia from St. Louis, even though they are both playing druids with the same stats and the same level, showing up for the same session at GenCon.

Ummm, why not? Just as Sam and Georgia's druids with the same stats can have different hit points depending on how they roll, why shouldn't their animal companions?

Average hit points per HD. For d8, that's 4.5 x HD rounded down.

(This is a Pathfinder Society ruling, btw, since this is the Pathfinder Society forum.)

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Average hit points per HD. For d8, that's 4.5 x HD rounded down.

(This is a Pathfinder Society ruling, btw, since this is the Pathfinder Society forum.)

What about Summoned monsters? I've made up cards assuming the averages given in the Bestiary, but something official to back that up would be nice.

Gamer Girrl wrote:

Arnim Thayer wrote:

Specifically, there seems to be a need for a standard for Organized Play. We can't have Sam from Hoboken with his Animal Companion having more hp than Georgia from St. Louis, even though they are both playing druids with the same stats and the same level, showing up for the same session at GenCon.

Ummm, why not? Just as Sam and Georgia's druids with the same stats can have different hit points depending on how they roll, why shouldn't their animal companions?

Because you don't roll for hit points in Pathfinder Society organized play.

Chris Kenney wrote:

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Average hit points per HD. For d8, that's 4.5 x HD rounded down.

(This is a Pathfinder Society ruling, btw, since this is the Pathfinder Society forum.)

What about Summoned monsters? I've made up cards assuming the averages given in the Bestiary, but something official to back that up would be nice.

It doesn't get any more official than the Bestiary :)

Doug Doug wrote:

Chris Kenney wrote:

Joshua J. Frost wrote:

Average hit points per HD. For d8, that's 4.5 x HD rounded down.

(This is a Pathfinder Society ruling, btw, since this is the Pathfinder Society forum.)

What about Summoned monsters? I've made up cards assuming the averages given in the Bestiary, but something official to back that up would be nice.

It doesn't get any more official than the Bestiary :)

Yup. :-)

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I'm on a break between speeches, games, and beating Daigle to death.

Since you are in Vegas.. you can make a game out of it.. You can bet how many hits it takes until he goes unconscious!!