I have a halfling ranger IMC who rides his animal companion around (it's a wolf).
He was interested in getting a mist wolf as a cohort. I wondered if there might be a feat or something that allows you to take a magical beast as an animal companion. It seems like this would be simpler than trying to make a magical beast cohort.
What's a mist wolf? Well, it's an old D&D monster, updated here:
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It wouldn't be simpler, it has an int of 10 as far as you are concerned this is a sentient being. You essentially entering the same problem that happens to Druid when they awaken their animal companion. Their animal companion become sentient, can think for themselves and cease becoming animal companion. Now if you have treated your animal companion well, he might feel like helping you but sometime being able to think for itself just mean that he can just make the decision to leave and nothing you could really do about it.
So yes it's more appropriate to have a magical beast as a cohort than an animal companion.
Maybe you misunderstood. I think it would be a lot simpler mechanically to stat up a mist wolf as an animal companion than to figure out how to run one as a PC (or NPC) race with class levels.
I get that a mist wolf is intelligent, but so is a familiar, and you can take Improved Familiar to get a mephit or something that ordinarily has its own intelligence and free will.
The easy solution is leadership for a monstrous cohort.
There is no even semilegal way to turn your wolf animal companion into a Mist Wolf.
The easy solution is leadership for a monstrous cohort.
There is no even semilegal way to turn your wolf animal companion into a Mist Wolf.
It would seem not, but there IS a legal way to take a mephit for a familiar, and it seemed to be a similar thing.
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The Bonus Bestiary contains rules for the Dragonne (a magical beast with in>2) as an animal companion. It appears to be a Pathfinder book, at least the statblocks contain CMB and CMD which didn't exist in 3.5.
Although the Bonus Bestiary was released before the first Bestiary and the Paizo developers have all said that some of the things in the Bonus Bestiary were done before the they had finalized how some things worked in Pathfinder. The Dragonne as an animal companion is a prime example.