ACG: Hunter, Nature Training

[lstyer]

The Hunter class in the new Advanced Class Guide has a class feature, Nature Training, that reads:

Nature Training wrote:

A hunter counts her total hunter level as both druid levels and ranger levels for the purpose of qualifying for feats, traits, and options that modify or improve an animal companion.

"Feats" is pretty self-explanatory, but what are "traits" and "options" in this context?

What I'm specifically curious about is the Human favored class option for Ranger in the Advanced Player's Guide allows the character to give an Animal Companion either 1 hit point of 1 skill point per Ranger level. Is that an "option" that the Hunter can access through Nature Training, counting each Hunter level as a Ranger level?

[Chess Pwn]

I don't think so, since you're not counting as the class, just counting as that many levels for qualifying for things.

[London Duke]

But what feats and traits actually require druid or ranger levels? Druid feats usually require you can spontaneously summon natures ally... Something the hunter can already do.

[Chess Pwn]

Powerful Shape and Wild Speech require druid levels. Advanced Ranger Trap needs ranger levels.