So i went and saw Jurassic World yyesterday and it was an awesome movie, and after seeing the ending i now havve a powerful urge to make a Hunter with three velociraptors as his animal companions. The velociraptors are easy, the book says to just use the Deinonychus statblock, but the main problem i ran into is that Using the Packmaster archetype i fear i may be spreading them too thin, so i ask you for assistance great and knowledgeable paizo forums, how can i get extra animal companion progressions that i can stack into my Packmaster levels? Preferably i would hope to get 3 full level progressions, but that i feel is a lofty goal, if you know how though i would love to hear it! :D
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Depends how high you're going to level, but Boon Companion taken multiple times will give you good stuff for a bit
If you're a human, you can have fully leveled raptors until 6 with just that, but aside from that I can't think of any way to boost your EDL with a Hunter..
Depends how high you're going to level, but Boon Companion taken multiple times will give you good stuff for a bit
If you're a human, you can have fully leveled raptors until 6 with just that, but aside from that I can't think of any way to boost your EDL with a Hunter..
i figured one way to boost my EDL was to get the animal companion ability from other sources as well, so that i could effectively double my level for the purposes of my Raptors, btw thanks for cluing me in that Boon Companion can be used multiple times ;)
So i went and saw Jurassic World yyesterday and it was an awesome movie, and after seeing the ending i now havve a powerful urge to make a Hunter with three velociraptors as his animal companions. The velociraptors are easy, the book says to just use the Deinonychus statblock, but the main problem i ran into is that Using the Packmaster archetype i fear i may be spreading them too thin, so i ask you for assistance great and knowledgeable paizo forums, how can i get extra animal companion progressions that i can stack into my Packmaster levels? Preferably i would hope to get 3 full level progressions, but that i feel is a lofty goal, if you know how though i would love to hear it! :D
Type in 3 animal companions and my thread will come up or APE WITH RANGED WEAPON.
But 3 of those they have 5 attacks EACH. No one will play if you get that. Just get 2.i only got one.
Be an evangelist of Erastil. Dat Old Dead Eye boon.
It happens a little later but you could take the Variant Multiclass Druid option and get an animal companion at level 7 (at -4 character level, at 11th level it equals level).
Stacking that on top of a Hunter would give you two full powered animal companions at level 11 without boon companion (but would cost you feats anyway).
The question is not "how to do it" but rather "should it be done".
The answer is probably not; it could be somewhat OP (if a class having its own abilities plus one "full power" animal companion is "balanced", then have two more "full power" animal companions must be OP, right?).
But, if that's your game, then I say go for it. But I'm not sure hot to do it, mechanically.
However, beware:
Velociraptors were ACTUALLY the size of turkeys. They maxxed out at about 33 pounds and, stretching their necks up, would have been at most just over 2 feet tall.
So yeah, take three actual velociraptors and never worry about being too OP.
Better yet, get what you want and go with deinonychus which were actually about the size and shape of the raptors in the movies. Or, go big or go home, take my favorite, the utahraptor (I happen to live in Utah so, er, uh, Go Utes!) which was probably the biggest dromaeosaur, nearly twice the size of Jurassic Park's raptors (and easier to spell and pronounce than the others, too).