Question, does the Favored Class Alternatives for a human ranger, the the that gives +1 hp and skill points apply to A rangers's Animal Companion, would it apply to all of what a Ranger Beast Master Animal Companions might have? Would Eye for Talent apply to all Animal Companions if you decided to split up your Druid levels for AnCos?
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Question, does the Favored Class Alternatives for a human ranger, the the that gives +1 hp and skill points apply to A rangers's Animal Companion, would it apply to all of what a Ranger Beast Master Animal Companions might have? Would Eye for Talent apply to all Animal Companions if you decided to split up your Druid levels for AnCos?
I'd say no, it wouldn't apply to all of them
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I don't think it would hurt anything.
You're breaking down a higher EDL companion, which is already weaker than say, an Eidolon, into two or more sub-par EDL companions. if you're 9th level ranger, that's 6 EDL, if you broke that into two wolves at EDL 3, having them with a +2 str isn't going to break anything. they're still going to die pretty easily.
I never got that with beastmaster. yes you get a wider animal selection. but getting to chose more than one animal companion? that's not very useful as a ranger.
As a druid, i could see eventually casting Animal Growth. There it could be useful. But they'd still be too underpowered to hit most CR threat encounters.
I would say they get 1 HP per level to split among their companions if using the beastmaster archetype.
Giving it to all would be comparable to saying that a a druid/beatmaster (with 2 AComps) and then takes a level of Natures Warden adds +2 levels (+1 for druid AComp, +1 for Ranger AC) to their effective druid level when figuring out their AComps abilities.
I don't think it would be all that broken, since, as already mentioned, the animal is already going to have a hard time of hitting.
One weird example would be that a level 20 ranger, for what ever insane reason, decided he wanted to have 17 wolves.
Now, each wolf would have about 32 - 36 health. Seeing how on average most enemies would be doing somewhere between 90-120 damage, that won't really help you. An ancient gold dragon could just use its breath weapon DC 31, 20d10, and they are all probably dead. Would that be annoying to roll 17 saves, yes.
Splitting your companions is already a bad idea, simply because of their lack of hit and saves alone.
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lol really no need to roll at that point. even if they save they're not high enough to have evasion? they can only make the save on a 20, and even then half damage will roast them =)
1hp for 1 animal, for each favored level benefit for the alternate choice seems appropriate. its only ever 1hp. you give up the 1hp or skill point for yourself, and choose to give it to your pet. if you have multiple pets, you still only get 1hp or skill point / level of ranger to dole out.
probably RAI. but yah.