Making Animal Companions and a question about the Death's Kiss effect


Rules Questions


Hey guys

Just asking a couple of question from a friend;
- Why does the bear animal companion stop growing at medium size? is there any rules to make animal companions from scratch?

- The Deaths Kiss ability from the Undead sub-domain states that the creature touched is treated as an undead for the purposes of negative and positive energy effects. Should I assume that this ability is a necromancy effect? My friend tried to use it on a construct, and I ruled that it didnt work, any thoughts?

Regards
Smands

Liberty's Edge

For the first bit: I am unaware of any rules for making an AC from scratch. You are probably best just taking an existing AC that gets to large size and making slight modifications.

For the second: I would have made the same ruling. Basically anything with "undead" or "negative" anywhere near it is a necromancy effect. Supernatural and extraordinary abilities unfortunately do not generally list what type of effect they are, so you have to make a judgement call. An ability that makes someone respond to postive/negative energy like an undead sounds like the poster child for a necromancy effect to me. Besides, it doesn't make sense for a construct to be healed/hurt by life/death energy no matter the spell (unless the spell makes them something other than a construct... "I'm a real boy!")

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