Animal companion tricks when multiclassing into Hunter

[St0nemender]

Hi,

i am currently planning on multiclassing into Hunter. Since this is going to be mid-campaign, there will not be much downtime between adventures. Im currently lvl4 UC-Rogue and plan on going Hunter with Boon companion feat on lvl5.

The question is, how is this usually handled with regards to the animal companion and his tricks? Without tricks, the companion is pointless and doesnt do anything.

Have you been in the situation? How did you implement the sudded appearence of the animal into the game? How would you handle the problem of tricks for the animal?

[glass]

My understanding is that bonus tricks can just be selected with no issue, but even with boon companion that is only true. But the base (2 x Int bonus) tricks need to be taught, which takes time.

It might be worth asking you GM if you can start without an animal companion and use the "while you animal companion is dead" alternative abilities until such time as you can get a bit of downtime and/or have enough hunter levels to have a more usable number of bonus tricks.

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glass.