Pathfinderize: Greyhawk Wolf Nomad of Wegwiur

[wakedown]

Howdy all,

So I'm giving a shot at running a campaign in Oerth (Greyhawk) using the Pathfinder rules and looking to crowdsource you all for some clever ideas.

I've had a player come to me wanting to play a character who would be a Wolf Nomad of Wegwiur. Of course his focus is Barbarian as his main class.

Now outside of suggesting 4 levels of ranger or 1 level of druid to pick up an animal companion... What would be fair ways to allow him to meet the "fluff" requirements of said wolf companion?

I've given the option to simply take 25g of starting money to purchase a wolf cub, or possibly burn a starting trait - where the cub would essentially have the stats of 1 HD dog, and he'd be using Handle Animal for all interaction.

But say he wants more than this without the dip... I see a possibility being a variant like the PF Setting ranger variant where he maybe loses Trap Sense at 3rd to get a wolf companion with his druid level at 1/3rd his barbarian level?

Thoughts?

[Set]

You could take a peek at the Wild Cohort feat.

Doing it up as an alternate class feature also works nicely, if whatever class he chooses has something suitable to swap out.

[emirikol]

I agree the Wild Cohort feat would be the best way to go.

Let them control it just like a Druid controls his animal companion.

Otherwise, I think that the Bbn is /the/ class choice for that entire society ;)

jh

[wakedown]

This feat is a great find. I'll probably use it as written and plop it right into the campaign. Thanks so much.