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Hey folks, I just finished my first draft of some handy Animal Companion reference material. When you click the link, you can select columns and choose to sort from A-Z or Z-A. You can do several sortings in a row, and the spreadsheet will remember your previous sorts. You can use this to identify overlapping important characteristics. In order to "reset" the table, sort the first column from A-Z.
The sheet covers a wide range of statistics for ACs including:
A freeze frame look at base stats for levels 1, 4, 7, and 9 allowing for a comparison between the ACs at their various "peaks"
A look at the # of attacks, the flat damage from die rolls, and whether or not they get 1 and 1/2 Strength
The random special qualities that animals possess
Soon, I will be updating the sheet with a second page assuming "optional advancement" using that weird rule where you can choose to boost your animal's Dex and Con by 2 instead of taking the normal advancement.
A third page will follow, comparing the previous two.
While this information is obviously not useful to everyone, I hope someone finds it helpful. I'm looking for general feedback, corrections (I did a lot of this by hand), and for a few missing pieces of information.
1: How much reach should an Elasmosaurus have? They have abnormally long reach on their Beastiary entry and I'm not sure how to properly size that down to large size.
2: How much reach should a Yolubilis Heron have? Their stat block doesn't seem to exist on d20, where I get my information.
3: What the heck is the SQ "Scavenger" that Giant Ravens possess?
Thanks for the feedback, and enjoy!
Awesome work. Saved this.
I see there are die results but maybe add a minimum, average, and max column which factors in their STR to the roll?
I could certainly do that, there are however three problems with adding in strength.
1: I would need to add in 12 columns, one for 1, 4, 7, and 9th level. This would add even more clutter to a VERY full sheet.
3: Magical equipment and abilities can easily change the AC's strength making those benchmarks questionably useful
2: Because of the 2 floating +1 stat improvements by level 9 the results could be wrong if you chose to boost your Strength, making those benchmarks outright wrong
However, this is why I wanted feedback. If people really want base strength scores despite the above problems, I can certainly add those in.
I already know that the next time I work on this sheet I'll be adding a pair of columns for PFS and Non-PFS wonderous item slots.
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I would like to link to this here: Druid's Log: Animal Companions. May I? I have a list of links that I've added to Flutter's Guide, and I think your spread sheet would be a great fit.
As for wanting base strength, yeah, I'd like it, even if it has to be on another page of the spreadsheet. Strength is especially important on flying mounts, because how else will you get into the air? I don't need to worry about the additions that players choose to add -- magic, extra attribute boosts, etc. Just "can this critter carry me and my gear?"
Hmm
I do have base strength and stats listed! Just not the damage said strength provides, my last response was possibly a touch confusing. Base stats are included for levels 1, 4, 7, and 9 for easy comparison at the more important breakpoints.
After 7 its (mostly) just slowly adding 1 to Strength and Dex anyway.
Anyway, I would love to have my spreadsheet linked into the Druid's Log! Feel free, and thank you for asking. I'm fine with this resource being used and distributed as a tool to help folks out.