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Dennis da Ogre wrote:

Squirrelloid wrote:

I suppose I should clarify that whatever the final power level is, the Druid and the Ranger should have the same one. It doesn't need to be at the Druid's current level of awesomeness.

If used car salesman made adverts for character classes:

"Buy this wonderful druid class today and we'll throw in a free Animal Companion. Guaranteed to be flea free and ready to replace that irksome fighter in your group."

Oh... actually sure, I agree that there is no reason the ranger's companion shouldn't be as good as the druids, it would just be better if they were both set about the level of the rangers AC.

I think I could get behind this idea - to have both the ranger's AC and the druid's AC be at half-level. If they really want a vicious animal comp, they can take Leadership and get a neato animal or magical beast or awakened animal cohort.

As an interesting side note, could druids and rangers who take Leadership perhaps get animal FOLLOWERS? Instead of human commoners, experts, etc.?

Could be fun.

Oh, just let Jason loose with the animal companion rules for ten seconds and the next thing you know they'll be out of Pathfinder entirely. You broke Psionics, Jason! You broke them!

Velderan wrote:

I'm just wondering if, as of yet, there are plans to take the pathfinder system to the epic level. The existing 3.5 epic system is a real mess, and I'd like to see pathfinder start completely from scratch. After all, I'd like a chance to put all of those neat capstone abilities to use.....

Thoughts/feelings/flames?

I have an epic adventure path brewing in my head, but it'll be a while before we do something with it in Pathifnder. I'm guessing, at minimum, 3 years. If there's a big enough demand/outcry for an epic Adventure Path or an epic Pathfinder Module before then, of course, that'll change.

Poor, poor Skulvryn.

Okay, it was my fault she ended up that way, but still.

I'll just warn y'all now, if there's a way for James to come up with a way to absolutely destroy your party with a novel application of an epic ability, he'll do it.

You have all the fun... my players revolt when I send plain old fashioned bullywugs at them.... not appreciating the hunting I had to do to find a 3rd edition version. <sigh>

The shortage of high CR monsters isn't the problem that I have... it's the fact that most of the high CR creatures are territorial or loners, which makes it hard to construct adventures around them. Which is why you end up with low CR creatures with a lot of character levels or funky templates.

See, she had AC and DR up the Wazoo. I mean, seriously, we could not hit her, and when we hit her, we could not hurt her. It was *insane*. James is an excellent DM, and a touch sadistic. :)

I personally kind of enjoy using CR 1 or 2 monsters with class levels to beef them up, instead of templates. But that may just be me.

We can't use templates from third-party publishers in Dungeon, unfortunately, as creative and interesting as they might be; I'm a huge fan of the Advanced Bestiary myself, and use it all the time in the campaign I run on Saturdays. But for the magazine, we'll only be using monsters and templates from Wizards of the Coast products, or, of course, new monsters and templates created specifically for either magazine (Dungeon or Dragon).

Oh dear GOD, does he like templates from the Advanced Bestiary. And if you ever see him opening that thing, you should run as far and as fast as your legs will carry you. Nymph mummies!