Hi, I searched a little and didn't find anything on the subject so I just thought I should ask : may animal companions give birth?
I know this sounds silly, but I think some players may want, some day, a little wolf patch following their mom into battle. I think there are two ways to see this through :
1) The animal companion's a supernatural animal. Since it is bound to disapear following the will of it's "owner", it may not give birth. If it could (which means you basically waited a couple of months in-game to wait for it to happen), the baby-whatever would probably disapear whenever you would dismiss your Animal companion.
2) yes they can. The baby-animal do not get any bonus from being the kin of an AC but can still live after their parent disapeared. You do not get any benefice from giving birth to animals and they don't necessarily follow you after the AC is dismissed.
If anyone thinks like No2, then, do you think a druid could shapeshift into an animal, do it with an animal (or even with its animal companion) and have pup with this animal (YAY, zoophylia). For example, could a male druid transform into a bird-like animal (lets say an axebeak) and fertilize his female animal companion axebeak's egg?
I know this sounds creapy, but I was only wondering if there was something I was missing about animal companions and animal transformation....
Thank you to answer my creapy post
Your type doesn't change when you polymorph. So you would still be a human (or elf, or dwarf or whatever) trying to I pregnant a wolf. At best, the offspring would be a hideous wolf-man, but more likely it just wouldn't work, and you likely wouldn't be able to look your animal companion in the eyes again.
On the main point. Unless I am mistaken, most animal companions are just normal animals, enhanced by the druid's power, and so would be just as fertile as any other animal.
I feel like a similar use of polymorph magic makes for roughly half of the justification for creatures of the half-dragon template.
I would say that as an extraordinary ability, your animal companion can get pregnant, during which time it would just become a docile animal not under your control. When the pup was born, you could recruit it back, but the pup is under no compulsion to do what you want unless you A) befriend it with the Handle Animal skill or B) are a Pack Lord druid.
Still, little bit of squelch with the companion loving.
Now, I'm going to slowly back out of here before awaken and Leadership are brought into the conversation.
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You need to worship Lamashtu, and you need this:
Demon Mother's Mask
Source: Gods & Magic pg. 56
Aura: faint transmutation; CL 3rd
Slot: Face; Price 3,600 gp; Weight 1 lb.
Description:
This primitive hyena-like mask is usually made of leather, but some are made of soft metal like copper or even carved out of the skull of an animal. You gain a +2 competence bonus on Handle Animal and Heal checks. You can smell when nearby creatures are in heat or otherwise especially fertile (creatures such as humans that can breed any time of year always smell fertile unless they are barren).
If Lamashtu is your patron, the mask counts as a holy symbol and a hole for a third eye appears in the mask’s forehead. You may use summon monster II once per day to summon a fiendish hyena, which obeys you as if you shared a common language. You may interbreed with animals that are within one size category of your size, usually creating (if you are a humanoid) animal-humanoid creatures such as gnolls or lizardfolk, or sometimes natural lycanthropes prone to live in hybrid form.
Construction:
Requirements: Craft Wondrous Item, detect animals or plants, polymorph, summon monster II, creator must have at least 5 ranks in Handle Animal and Heal; Cost 1,800 gp
Lamashtu is quiet accepting and loving it appears. Always seeking someone to be with too.
Anyways... Pretty sure there was a big thread on this and axebeaks at some point. The answer was that you weren't an axebeak and there should probably be dire consequences for the squick and act of perversion. Its really up to your DM and probably not something any RAW is going to touch with a 10 foot pole.
Lamashtu has a great solution though...