The Monstrous Mount feat from the Pathfinder Campaign Setting: Inner Sea Combat (page 14) lists several Magical Beasts as possible Animal Companions.
I'm interested in allowing players to select from many other type of Magical Beasts and other Animals to use as Animal Companions. I can't find any guidelines within the rules for making a new Animal Companion.
So I'm not really sure how the "Worg" for instance was broken down in order to allow such a Magical Beast to be selected as an Animal Companion once the Monstrous Mount feat was selected.
Are there any guidelines for creating new animal companion starting statistics for a basic animal? What about guidelines for creating new starting stats for a Magical Beast (if using the Monstrous Mount feat)?
No, there are no guidelines for this to my knowledge.
There are no rules or guidelines for this.
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There are no guidelines. But there's a pretty wide gap between the Baboon and the Great Cat, you should be able to land somewhere in between.
Darn. I have no idea where to even begin if I wanted to house rule my own magical beast animal companions. I wonder how the designers determined how to get started with the few that they did for the monstrous mount feat?
Try to make some rules. Then stat up some animal(magic beast) companions at different levels. Do that 5 times with each companion and move the numbers up and Down to make it so they dont out shadow the party figther.
Do that and you Will have spend more design time on them than Designers ever did. I Think.
Honestly, I'd just repackage existing animal companion stat blocks and add different special abilities appropriate to the type of creature.