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Well.... in the past two days I read the entirety of this thread; (ok.. I skimmed some of it.) Wow. Great stuff here and very informative. I notice that the last post was about two weeks ago, but I am hoping this is a good place to still get some questions answered about my animal companion for my first Pathfinder character. I am going to be playing a Druid (caster) with either a lion named Mogli, or a tiger named Mittens, so basically the same thing as far as stats and the sheets will go.
The way I want to role-play the animal is that he and the Druid are best friends and essentially brothers. The Druid (named Aumakua) goes nowhere without his companion (I am taking Scribe Scroll for things like: Carry Companion, Spider Climb, etc. to make this viable) and never willingly puts him in harms way. I also want my companion to be just that, not a pet, a partner.... or companion. I would like for him to be much like a lion/tiger in real life in that he is capable of stealth, climbing, and good damage. Although I don't exactly know how I will fully use him in combat as of now.
I am going to be Human and will take the Eye for Talent over a bonus feat, which truly was a difficult decision, none the less my cat will have 4 intelligence to start. So, for my tricks I am thinking: Attack, Attack anything, Defend, Detect, Down, Exclusive, Fetch, Flank, Heel, Hunt, Seek, Sneak, and Track. My first question would be, are these all useful?
1.)If it is a large cat and I am a druid and we both have survival is hunt, or even track, necessary? I would imagine we could both hunt fairly well on our own without needing a trick to do so; or is this more so that I can send Mittens/Mogli off on his own and share his dinner with the rest of us? As for Track, will I really need him to follow the scent on his own or would our combined abilities to track be good enough?
2.) I would like to be able to work "stay" into the trick list as that seems useful and if I do I can't imagine I need both "come" and "heel." I saw that, Flutter said the two are basically interchangeable and I guess I am just looking for confirmation on that. Or if maybe one is more practical than the other.
3.) Would Seek only be used to put Mogli/Mittens in danger or are there other applications for it other than just sending him into a room alone to be attacked, or the victim of a trap, or whatever else?
4.) Would any of these be worth dropping or replacing? Like I said, I would want to get Stay in my Tricks list; perhaps also Menace and Guard.
5.) Is it possible that with a linguistics skill and high intelligence, it won't matter so much which tricks I pick since I will be able to efficiently push him to do what he doesn't know?
Also, can anyone recommend some useful feats for using the companion the way I want? Like I said, I want him to be somewhat stealthy and have the ability to do some decent climbing... I mean, a lion that can't climb up a tree or sneak up on prey seems kind of silly. Any appropriate combat based feats would be useful as well. Maybe even just a list of your favorites. Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, and thank you for all the great info that is already here. Good man, Flutter.