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Mahorfeus wrote:

Piggybacking off this, does the druid also have to spend weeks and weeks training the companion all of the tricks that the original knew?

They would be able to give them the automatic ones from the chart, but any extra ones would not be given to the new animal. It might be better to just raise dead, assuming the animal was not simply dismissed, on the old one unless it is undesirable(player wants a new companion), or the animal is beyond any healing spell the party has access too.

The value given in this column is the total number of “bonus” tricks that the animal knows in addition to any that the druid might choose to teach it (see the Handle Animal skill). These bonus tricks don’t require any training time or Handle Animal checks, and they don’t count against the normal limit of tricks known by the animal. The druid selects these bonus tricks, and once selected, they can’t be changed.

Having to spend 2-3 months each time an Animal Companion dies to teach it tricks would be unfortunate.