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Is there an expanded list of Animal Companions or is the one in the Core Players guide the only list?
Check chapter 13 from Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play.
Pathfinder #31: “Stolen Land” Animal Companions: elk, megaloceros, thylacine
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary: Animal Companions: ankylosaurus, aurochs, brachiosaurus, dire bat,
dire rat, dolphin, elasmosaurus, electric eel, elephant/mastodon, frog,
goblin dog, hyena, monitor lizard, moray eel, octopus, orca, pteranodon,
rhinoceros, roc, squid, stegosaurus, triceratops, and tyrannosaurus;
Note however these are not available to rangers!
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Actually, James says that you can take a thylacine or an elk at the above link.
Thylacine is comparable to a wolf, but slightly less powerful. It stays medium sized though for those enclosed spaces and can spike a little bit higher on damage from powerful jaws.
An Elk and a Wolf are nearly completely equivalent. A wolf can trip, while the elk does more damage on a charge. It's otherwise a tossup.
Anyone who has an issue with this should probably have an issue with the fact that the wolf is so much better than other critters on the ranger's list. The addition of these two gives you more options without making an obviously inferior creature choice.
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Actually, James says that you can take a thylacine or an elk at the above link.
Thylacine is comparable to a wolf, but slightly less powerful. It stays medium sized though for those enclosed spaces and can spike a little bit higher on damage from powerful jaws.
An Elk and a Wolf are nearly completely equivalent. A wolf can trip, while the elk does more damage on a charge. It's otherwise a tossup.
Anyone who has an issue with this should probably have an issue with the fact that the wolf is so much better than other critters on the ranger's list. The addition of these two gives you more options without making an obviously inferior creature choice.
In a normal Pathfinder game it would be ok for a ranger (with James' say so), but in Pathfinder Society it is currently not an option for a ranger (without Joshua's say so).
See this link
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Understood. Hopefully Josh will consider what James said though. I can understand just sticking with the original list so he didn't have to analyze the relative power of, or figure out a way to explicitly list, the possible ranger legal companions from other sources, but it appears James did the legwork for him when it comes to these two.