Are you Exhausted after acquiring an Animal Companion?

[harmor]

Quote:

If a druid releases her companion from service, she may gain a new one by performing a ceremony requiring 24 uninterrupted hours of prayer in the environment where the new companion typically lives. This ceremony can also replace an animal companion that has perished.

So if you can't sleep are you under the Exhausted condition the next day?

[BobChuck]

Sounds right.

Doesn't sound fair, exactly, and I'd think any rational DM would let you have some down time to do this, but according to RAW, you are correct.

[Mahorfeus]

Piggybacking off this, does the druid also have to spend weeks and weeks training the companion all of the tricks that the original knew?

[Urath DM]

More likely Fatigued than Exhausted. Prayer is not the same kind of strenuous activity as Forced March.

[wraithstrike]

Mahorfeus wrote:

Piggybacking off this, does the druid also have to spend weeks and weeks training the companion all of the tricks that the original knew?

They would be able to give them the automatic ones from the chart, but any extra ones would not be given to the new animal. It might be better to just raise dead, assuming the animal was not simply dismissed, on the old one unless it is undesirable(player wants a new companion), or the animal is beyond any healing spell the party has access too.

[Rimzy]

wraithstrike wrote:

Mahorfeus wrote:

Piggybacking off this, does the druid also have to spend weeks and weeks training the companion all of the tricks that the original knew?

They would be able to give them the automatic ones from the chart, but any extra ones would not be given to the new animal. It might be better to just raise dead, assuming the animal was not simply dismissed, on the old one unless it is undesirable(player wants a new companion), or the animal is beyond any healing spell the party has access too.

Are you sure?

Core wrote:

The value given in this column is the total number of “bonus” tricks that the animal knows in addition to any that the druid might choose to teach it (see the Handle Animal skill). These bonus tricks don’t require any training time or Handle Animal checks, and they don’t count against the normal limit of tricks known by the animal. The druid selects these bonus tricks, and once selected, they can’t be changed.

Having to spend 2-3 months each time an Animal Companion dies to teach it tricks would be unfortunate.

[Darigaaz the Igniter]

I'm all for punishing the "oh, my companion died. I'll start praying and have a new one this time tommorow." mentality.

[Foghammer]

Darigaaz the Igniter wrote:

I'm all for punishing the "oh, my companion died. I'll start praying and have a new one this time tommorow." mentality.

Unfortunate for level 1 druids whose companions get crappy rolls.

I understand that there may be some animosity towards that video-gamish 'mentality' but at the same time, it's not always an option to rescue or revive a fallen friend. Any player who thinks "well crap, my wolf died, now I gotta pray for a new one" probably shouldn't be playing a druid with a companion.

I know that my girlfriend would go psycho if her bear got killed, in-character and out. I wouldn't be happy about it. Might take a level in barbarian afterward (for the subsequent anger issues that would follow) and then work something out with the DM to allow me to just attract another animal over time instead of 24 hours later.