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Derailing a bit, but asking because related. Do undead animated by Animate Dead count towards the PFS 1 combat pet per character rule? So although you can animate 40HD of undead, you can only have a single one around with you?
We had this come up in a game 2 weeks ago. We ruled it as so.
can some one provide me a source for this rule?
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can some one provide me a source for this rule?Derailing a bit, but asking because related. Do undead animated by Animate Dead count towards the PFS 1 combat pet per character rule? So although you can animate 40HD of undead, you can only have a single one around with you?
We had this come up in a game 2 weeks ago. We ruled it as so.
1) Not sure if it was answered in the 49 posts on the previous page, but they would not count against the total, they would be treated as summoned monsters.
2) How many animals can I have at any given time?
During the course of a scenario, you may have one combat animal and as many noncombat animals as you like. Noncombat animals (ponies, horses, pet dogs, and so on) cannot participate in combat at all. If you have so many noncombat animals that their presence is slowing a session down, the GM has the right to ask you to select one noncombat animal and leave the rest behind. A summoner's eidolon is considered an animal companion for the purposes of counting combat and noncombat animals. If you have more than one class-granted animal companion (or eidolon), you must choose which will be considered the combat animal at the start of the scenario. In general, a mount, a familiar or mundane pet, and your class-granted animal(s) are acceptable, but more than that can be disruptive.
Corollary: Try to keep the number of summoned/created extra critters down, as well. Which is one of the reasons Master Summoner got hit with the ban hammer...
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So if you can only have 1 combat pet, what about the beastmaster variant of the ranger?
I believe the main benefit would be that one could have a slew of different ACs to take on different mission settings without having to dump an animal and retrain it from scratch. That, or just simply having some Exotic Pets that won't do combat. Maybe have both a Mount AND a combat animal that can level? It's weaker than it would be outside PFS, but it surely has a use.