Is killing your Animal Companions for food Evil?

[Irontruth]

Seraphimpunk wrote:

also: goodberry.

1st level vegan option thats much better game rules wise than eating your pet.

Requires you to find berries. Might be hard in extremely dry or cold environments. On the other hand, Dreamfeast is awesome. You dream about eating food! My dwarven druid loves this spell.

[Tequila Sunrise]

Only if you don't purify it with A1 sauce.

[Ion Raven]

Maybe it's not a Druid, Ranger, or Cleric with Animal Domain, maybe it's a Paladin or a Cavalier trapped in a horrible snowstorm alone with their steed (which counts as an Animal Companion).

[Mikaze]

....all I know now is that if I ever play a ranger or druid whose animal companion dies, I'm wearing him if it's culturally appropriate. Values dissonance is a fun thing to mine.

Bonus points if the hide/bone is made into enchanted gear that eventually saves the character's life. His buddy still has his back.

[Steven Tindall]

Umbral Reaver wrote:

If you have an animal companion, then there's a high probability that you can cast a spell that creates food, or have sufficient survival skill that you can squeeze sustenance from even the most unforgiving land. That's not to say that terrible situations can't arise, but you have to be trying very hard to fail to end up in them, given how many easy ways there are to have unlimited food.

Thank you. I was going to post the same thing.

What kind of druid would even consider using his friend as a food source barring extreme measures. The survival skill a druid has is more than enough to supply him and his AC with enough food to live off of for a good long while. If they are in the middle of a giant lifeless sand box then he can still create water, forage for locust or other edible plants, in short life is everywhere. The other party members might be hating life but at least the druid will survive.

I currently play with a guy that uses his AC as the parties main tank, so far he's on AC number 2 and counting. He looks at the way I play druids and things I over do it on the role play, to me he just wants a tank so he can sit back and cast.

Different play styles. If your the DM your the one that has to make that call as to whats evil or not.