Hey Folks,
I've got a crazy druid player who loves finding weird stuff to make as his animal companion. He's made all kinds of stuff his familiar from the list given in the Monstrous Companion Feat from Cohorts and Companions. Link.
However, now he's talked me into giving him expanded options and then sprung this on me. A Living Topiary Link.
He plans on investing the gold into making on, and upgrading it to be fire resistant and the dude is cool. I have 0 problem with allowing him to do this. However, I'm not entirely sure what level it should be counted as and I need to know because Monstrous Companion fills in spare levels with class levels or maybe I'll have to tell him to wait a few levels.
So this is where I could use some advice, what level would a Living Topiary count as for the purposes of being a Cohort?
7-8, I think.