Where's the Snow Leopard?

[kevin_video]

In one of the adventure paths, a female druid had a snow leopard as her animal companion. Is that just flavour text because all I could find was the regular leopard/cheetah under small cat. However, I did find the snow leopard under Tome of Horrors. Is that it? Is it an Improved Animal Companion that you can get at 4th?

[Deadmanwalking]

kevin_video wrote:

In one of the adventure paths, a female druid had a snow leopard as her animal companion. Is that just flavour text because all I could find was the regular leopard/cheetah under small cat. However, I did find the snow leopard under Tome of Horrors. Is that it? Is it an Improved Animal Companion that you can get at 4th?

Animal Companions are very generic. Small cat can be used for pumas, lynxs, panthers, leopards of all sorts, cheetahs, and all similar creatures.

For non-Animal Companion snow leopards, the Bestiary also says to use the default leopard stats.

[kevin_video]

I just looked up the snow leopard and compared it to the regular leopard. For fluff purposes, I'm just going to switch out their individual special qualities, and give the snow leopard the +0 CR arctic template so that they have a +4 Endurance check against the cold.

[gourry187]

As a note, an animal companion is not equal to it's beastiary counterpart.

[LazarX]

Snow Leopard was left behind in Mac OS X 10.5. We're all upgrading to Mountain Lion now.

[Grick]

LazarX wrote:

Snow Leopard was left behind in Mac OS X 10.5.

10.6

[LazarX]

Grick wrote:

LazarX wrote:

Snow Leopard was left behind in Mac OS X 10.5.

10.6

You're right. 10.5 was plain old Leopard.

[blahpers]

gourry187 wrote:

As a note, an animal companion is not equal to it's beastiary counterpart.

This. Animal companion snow leopards are no different than leopards by RAW, even if there was a snow leopard bestiary entry--which there isn't.

But who cares? House it.

[gourry187]

blahpers wrote:

gourry187 wrote:

As a note, an animal companion is not equal to it's beastiary counterpart.

This. Animal companion snow leopards are no different than leopards by RAW, even if there was a snow leopard bestiary entry--which there isn't.

But who cares? House it.

Animal Companions are not the same as their Beastiary counterpart. They do not get the skill bonuses, special abilities, HP, attacks, ect.

Animal Companions get only what items are listed under the Animal Companion entry and additions from effective druid levels.

A snow leopard (cat, small) animal companion is different from the leopard entry in the beastiary.

[kevin_video]

blahpers wrote:

This. Animal companion snow leopards are no different than leopards by RAW, even if there was a snow leopard bestiary entry--which there isn't.

Um, yeah there is one. I listed it in my opening post. It's just not in the Paizo bestiary.

[Deadmanwalking]

kevin_video wrote:

Um, yeah there is one. I listed it in my opening post. It's just not in the Paizo bestiary.

And thus not precisely official. Not that that matters.

The point is, you in no way use the Bestiary stats for Animal Companions. You use an Animal Companion stat-block, which are very different.

[kevin_video]

Deadmanwalking wrote:

kevin_video wrote:

Um, yeah there is one. I listed it in my opening post. It's just not in the Paizo bestiary.

And thus not precisely official. Not that that matters.

The point is, you in no way use the Bestiary stats for Animal Companions. You use an Animal Companion stat-block, which are very different.

I was never looking for the stat-block. I was looking for an ability that replaces the regular cat's sprint ability.