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Table 5-4 Generic Prestige Awards in the Guide to Pathfinder Society Organized Play says you can pay 5PP to "Have your body recovered by a rescue team". Can you pay this for your animal companion as well?
Conditions, Death, and Expendables section in the same book says that PC's can "share or pool their resources in order to bring a dead party member back to life" Does this extend to animal companions? How about familiars?
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Since the 5pp brings back all gear, it should bring back the animal companion’s body, and any gear the animal companion is wearing or carrying. You would only have to spend 5pp on yourself, not for each yourself and your animal companion.
That being said, spending 16pp or 5460gp for a raise dead and 8pp or 2560gp for two restoration spells for the negative levels is pretty expensive. If you want to spend that on your animal companion, I would have no problem with it as a GM. But as a player, don’t ask me to pay for fluffy.
Why you ask? Because it costs you nothing to get a new animal companion, and if you have invested anything into handle animal at all (which you should be taking at least one rank per level), you will only be down a couple tricks for only one or two scenarios.
Yes, it’s very sad that fluffy is dead. But just go to the human society and adopt a new one.
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There's also the spell Raise Animal Companion from Ultimate Magic, which will you let you raise your companion if you still have the body. It also works on paladin mounts and familiars.
It's a fifth level druid spell, so the scroll is 1125, and depending on your level, may require a check to activate, but worth it if you need your specific Fluffy back.
(My pet characters all carry one.)
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Would the same hold true for a familiar? A witches familiar? If not, why?
For familiars in general, yes. For a Witch's familiar? Possibly, but it would take the Witch's player some talk to convince me.
And, even then, I would only do it if the player also promised to get a Stone Familiar as soon as their Fame permitted it.
And I would consider it for a Witch's familiar because it is their spellbook.
I might also be convinced to contribute to purchasing the scroll mentioned to bring back a Faerie Dragon familiar, since he is unique and irreplaceable. And the level should be high enough that the price would be within reason...
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The issue here is role-play vs roll-play.
Mechanical it is inferior to get back a companion if you can get back a similar ones us some tricks - and he will learn the tricks eventually.
Roll play wise it makes a HUGE difference. Fluffy 2 is not the same as Fluffy as any owner of a pet can tell you. Rangers and Druids are supposed to have a special bond to their specific animal. As such it should be valued as more as gold.
So it depends what's more important for the player in question. There is no right or wrong here.
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There's also the spell Raise Animal Companion from Ultimate Magic, which will you let you raise your companion if you still have the body. It also works on paladin mounts and familiars.
It's a fifth level druid spell, so the scroll is 1125, and depending on your level, may require a check to activate, but worth it if you need your specific Fluffy back.
(My pet characters all carry one.)
Shouldn't the scroll be 2,225gp? The cost of the 5th level druid scroll, plus the 1,000gp for the material component? Still cheaper than a Raise Dead. I think, though, the AC still suffers the negative levels, since it works as a Raise Dead, right?
At a little under 5,000gp total, I could see someone dropping that kind of money to raise their animal companion for role-playing reasons. I might do it if I was in that situation, but I don't think I'd ask or expect anyone else to chip in on it.
As mentioned, a witch's familiar might be a different story, though if you're high enough level to afford to raise the familiar, you should be high enough level and have enough fame to buy a stone familiar. If you don't want to do that, then set aside what you would have spent on the stone familiar to pay for a possible raise of your familiar.
Some of my characters might be sympathetic to the character who lost his/her animal companion. Some might not. When it comes down to role-play reasons whether or not you raise your animal companion, it comes down to role-play reasons whether or not my character chips in for it. My defender fighter with Bodyguard and Shield Ally who failed to block the blow that killed the companion would gladly throw money in, but my CN Sczarni Magus would take some convincing.
When it's a mechanical reason, and losing that specific companion would greatly set the character's abilities back, then as a player I'd likely chip in just to help another player out. This also would come into play if it seems like a particularly emotional loss (like in the case of a young player).
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Shouldn't the scroll be 2,225gp? The cost of the 5th level druid scroll, plus the 1,000gp for the material component? I think, though, the AC still suffers the negative levels, since it works as a Raise Dead, right?
You're right. I forgot about the material component. Still much cheaper than regular Raise Dead. And the animal would take the negative levels, but at least you'd have your buddy back.