qwerty1971 |
Looking to make a horse rider for a campaign. Not sure if Samurai/Cavalier Order of the Green, Ranger Horse Lord, Fighter Roughrider best suits the vision of a human or half elf archer who can also dismount and do some melee. Also is there any way to purchase a hunting dog and add boon companion to it so it progresses in strength with the horse?
Arcaian |
Looking to make a horse rider for a campaign. Not sure if Samurai/Cavalier Order of the Green, Ranger Horse Lord, Fighter Roughrider best suits the vision of a human or half elf archer who can also dismount and do some melee. Also is there any way to purchase a hunting dog and add boon companion to it so it progresses in strength with the horse?
The Boon Companion feat only applies to animal companions or familiars (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/boon-companion), and so for you to apply it to a hunting dog, the dog would need to be an animal companion. Normally this would be possible through the use of the Animal Ally feat (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/general-feats/animal-ally) and then apply the Boon Companion feat. However, the Animal Ally feat can only be taken if you don't have an animal companion or a mount that advances as an animal companion - I think all of the listed class choices - and any I know of - count as one of the above, meaning you can't take the dog as an animal companion in this way.
Also note that if you're playing with PFS (some people post in the general Pathfinder board with questions for PFS characters) there is a ruling that you cannot have more than one companion/eidolon/mount with you at the same time.
Stormagedon Dark Lord of All |
No, remember that your effective druid level for ranger is ranger level -3, and boon companion doesn't stack and only gives 4 druid levels. So you take your first animal companion at level 4 (let say a horse). Your horse is level 1 ranger 4. at level 5 you take a different animal companion (Let's say a dog), and you take boon companion for the horse. You have a level 5 horse/1 dog/5 ranger.
Now you've gone gotten to level 7 put two levels into dog and a boon companion into dog (because you don't want dog to die). So you have level 5 horse/7 dog/7 ranger.
You can play form there, but both animal companions will never equal ranger level at the same time.