Bardarok wrote:
All familiars have low-light vision naturally so I am not seeing your resoning. Also the rangers animal companioons are much larger versions of the creatues.
Fly+Language = Raven (low-light vision is standard)
Not sure why you need three abilities for a cat all I can think of is scent ability.
You can't reporoduce the rangers super snake with scent, climb, and swim with a lvl one familiar but you can still have a snake just choose one or two movement speeds probably land and climb not all snakes swim anyways.
This is the issue. There is no stat block to determine what any of the listed options may or may not have. You might say the snake can't swim, or the cat can only climb and see in the dark (familiar trait darkvision separate from the low-light standard) but doens't have the scent ability.
The problem is what an animal should "naturally" have can not be left up for debate. There must be clearly defined rules.
To clarify I was not attempting to recreate the ranger pets, I simply looked at there stat blocks to see what abilities they had and attempted to match them to the list on page 287.