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I'm making a ranger for a Kingmaker campaign and I'd like, once I've got a companion (prolly wolf), to Awaken it and either get leadership or ask the DM to keep it as a Companion without it geting the benefits (the other one is running arround with two giant wolves (maybe even the secons one Booned, wich is also pretty awesome).
The thing is, how do I decide wich level does it have as a cohort?
What I've found is (assuming it gets back to normal wolf as I dimiss it, and I've seen this is not clear either):
- You give it 2HD, as in Bestiary 1 (pag 295), thus making it large (as it doubles its HP, yay!) and getting it to 4HD.
- Determine it's CR, I guess via the table 1-2 in page 291 (so magical beast with 4 HD=CR3)
- Use this as a base to make a PC as per the rules in page 313 "Monsters as PCs", so it would be level 3. Also when it gets level 5.5 it gets an extra level (or counts as having 2 CR levels instead of 3, + the class levels).
Does it work like this? It's the only way I've seen to take an advanced monster (via "awaken") and translate it into PC levels so it can be taken via Leadership.
Is this how it's suposed to be done?
I've googled it and looked through the forums/FAQ section, and it's very inconsistent (nothing in the FAQs actually)
Also English is not my main language, so feel free to point out any mistakes I made so I can improve.
Adding to the topic, I've calculated the stats of anawakened wolf(in parenteses the expected values for a CR3 animal):
HP 32 (30)
AC 14 (15)
Attack +7 (+6/+4)
Av. Damage 4.5+5=8/9 (9/13)
Ability DC ? (10/14)
Good save Fort 8/ Ref 5 (6)
Poor save 2 (2)
to this we have to add a feat (Improved Natural Attack) that pumps the average damage up to 3.5+3.5+5=12 (9/13).
With this it's pretty acurate (only 2 HP, +1 to attack and +2 Fort save in exchange for 1 AC, 1 reflex save and not having any Ability DC).
The added Int (bringing it to 12 on average) doesn't give it many banefits outside of some skill points, so I don't see it being a problem.
Do you think this is being accurate (to consider him CR 3, so a level 3 cohort, that advances as a monstruous PC)?
Thanks for your time.