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4) You can start with a fully trained animal companion. If you replace that animal companion for any reason, then the following applies.
Between scenarios, you may attempt to train as many tricks as you have ranks in the Handle Animal skill. A failed attempt counts against the total number of training attempts. You may Take 10 on each attempt.
Alternatively, you can train for a single purpose per scenario as long as you have the requisite ranks in Handle Animal to train each individual trick learned as part of the purpose in the same time.
I think it's an improvement in terms of player options, maybe at the cost of some other reasons for how the rule has been handled in the current version. However, I also don't think that the complaints about this will stop until animal companions can be fully replaced, fully train, between any two scenarios.
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4) You can start with a fully trained animal companion. If you replace that animal companion for any reason, then the following applies.Between scenarios, you may attempt to train as many tricks as you have ranks in the Handle Animal skill. A failed attempt counts against the total number of training attempts. You may Take 10 on each attempt.
Alternatively, you can train for a single purpose per scenario as long as you have the requisite ranks in Handle Animal to train each individual trick learned as part of the purpose in the same time.
+1 I like this one.
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Huh...where did all of the defenders of the old rule disappear to?
You would prefer argument?
It still discourages most of the blatant stuff that I don't care for. You still have to invest in Handle Animal. If you dump CHA you are generally not as good with your AC as someone who didn't. If you kill off your animal companion it's going to hurt a bit.
Those are the main things I was worried about. I don't totally agree with it but no so much it's worth arguing over.
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Swiftbrook,
This animal companion conundrum was created prior to the big clarification this spring, in that just because you increase your animal’s intelligence to 3 at level 4, does not mean that the animal suddenly doesn’t need Handle Animal.
So the thing to do was to create a druid by chincing on CHA and Handle Animal, wait to level 4 to really do anything with your animal companion, and then your animal is suddenly intelligent enough to not need to know tricks or need handle animal.
Then the big clarification happened this last spring, and this wasn’t the case anymore.
Yep, I remember all that. I play a Ranger not a Druid so I never really got into the min/maxing my animal companion with an Int bump. Enforcing the rule that even an intelligent animal companion must be given commands with Handle Animal seems like a no-brainer to me. I see were it caused problems and how particular druid builds now have problems. But small rebuilds because of rule changes is another topic.
Thanks,
-Swiftbrook
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I very much approve of this (says he with a 4th level Half Orc druid with Cha 13 and 4 ranks in Handle Animal and a modifier of +10 (+14 with animal companion).
One thing I would query is whether GM Credit training could be allowed but only by Taking 10.
E.g. if I lost my animal companion in the next scenario and then GMed a scenario, could I use that GM Credit chronicle sheet to say "Trained new Animal Companion in Guarding (4 trick purpose DC20), take 10 result = 24"?
AS a side note, I was led to believe previously that you could currently train an Animal Companion for a purpose - if that is not the case, how do I go about correcting my PFS character?
Huh...where did all of the defenders of the old rule disappear to?You would prefer argument?
No, I'm just used to it. :-)
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I like this method of handling the situation.
Simple, concise, & something I suspect many people are already doing.
I dont often play rangers druids or summoners.....so i'm not overly familiar with animal companions.
In my experience my friend Omega man has a good sense of the rules, is fair and level headed. So if he says this seems like a good idea, I trust his judgment, and say it seems like a good idea.
