From trained animal to Animal Companion?


Rules Questions


Is it possible for a level 3 Ranger to start training an animal and then, upon reaching level 4, turn it into his Animal Companion?

An obvious obstacle here may be that Bestiary stats may differ from AC stats.

Some more context: in a campaign, my ranger 3/barbarian 1 found a geier (giant vulture) egg. The GM informed me that I would be able to use it as Animal Companion. I've been carrying it around and keeping it warm ever since. No idea how long before the egg hatches, but considering the speed at which we raced through the first couple of levels (at most 2 weeks from level 1 to 4), I assumed it'd hatch when I hit the appropriate level.

However, having finished a major milestone, we're suddenly facing a year of downtime, and I'm not ranger level 4 yet. Will the egg take more than a year to hatch? That seems unlikely. But if it hatches, I can't take it as AC yet. But a year of downtime would be great for training it. But is that of any use if I'll just turn it into an AC later?


If you are willing to swap stat blocks when it becomes an AC, i don't see why it would be an issue.


I'd be fine with the lowest possible stat block during training; it won't matter much during the downtime. It's more to take the opportunity to get some training in.

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