Animal Companion

[Raker_]

So my DM gave me a giant eagle as an animal companion and i am having a hard time finding there starting stats before i apply the animal companion levels. any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated.

thanks again

[Threeshades]

Raker_ wrote:

So my DM gave me a giant eagle as an animal companion and i am having a hard time finding there starting stats before i apply the animal companion levels. any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated.

thanks again

Animal companion rules are written with the Druid rules. Most animal types are there too. What you whould use would be a bird.

Giant Eagles (as in the Bestiary) aren't animals and cannot be used as animal companions.

The Roc would be a giant version of an eagle that can be used as an animal companion.

[Paraxis]

Here is a list of all official animal companions for druids.

I would use a Roc or Giant Vulture.

[url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/druid/animal-companions#TOC-Roc][/url]

[Starglim]

The Bestiary has no animal companion progression for a giant eagle, partly because it's a magical beast. edit: The roc progression looks suitable.

If you want to keep the listed intelligence and magical beast type, based on the former (now removed) rules for the dragonne, you would probably have to count it as a companion of a lower level. That is definitely getting into the purview of a different forum.

[Blinkin]

I hope that I'm in a reasonably close place to ask this question.

I'm working on a 4th level ranger with an animal companion, but I hit a snag and would love some advice on how to handle it.

I know that the Ranger animal companion list is extremely short in comparison to a druid's list, but such is life.

I'm looking at Cat, Small and the examples are Cheeta and Leppard; I was thinking about alynx or bobcat (both are small cats, around 35 pounds). I wanted to see if they were listed in the game, and the Lynx is, but it has the combat maneuvers of a Cat, Large, according to the templates and is therefore not a companion that is acceptable as a Cat, Small, even if it's listed as "Small."

Even if the monster manual version is a fully grown animal, it seems very inconsistent to list it with the large cat abilities but not allow an animal companion to have any of those traits. Is there a compromise between the two? It falls into the small cat definition, with the large cat's capabilities.I really want the cat, but why should I so drastically get a watered down version of it that will never have any of it's abilities?

Suggestions? Help?

[dragonhunterq]

Use the druid animal companion rules. Do not use the Bestiary rules.