Druid Animal Companion

[Tollak Vargsson]

We're starting a new game and one of my players is interested in a Druid but wants to know if there's an archetype or feat that would allow him to have a Treant as his animal companion.

It's not make or break for him but I also like to run a game where players can try different things as long as they're not ridiculous.

I'm not opposed either to just subbing in a Treant as his companion at a higher level but I'm really not sure what level that would be.

[Avoron]

Take a look at the treesinger, a plant-focused elf druid archetype with an option for a sapling treant companion.

[Reksew_Trebla]

There is a non elf only archetype that also gets plant companions, I'll edit it in when I find it again.

EDIT: Supernaturalist

[Melkiador]

If you are cool with a tree familiar instead of a "companion", there's also the Leshy Warden

[Tollak Vargsson]

Thanks for the help.

We ended up agreeing that the Treant Sapling wasn't worth giving up the majority of his Wild Shape options so I agreed to let him take the Sapling as a regular Druid.

[Melkiador]

Tollak Vargsson wrote:

Thanks for the help.

We ended up agreeing that the Treant Sapling wasn't worth giving up the majority of his Wild Shape options so I agreed to let him take the Sapling as a regular Druid.

It sounds like you are seriously undervaluing Plant Shape, but I'm glad you came to a conclusion.

Plant shape options
Those 10+ foot reaches are better than pounce in a lot of situations.