Dear Cedric & Hilldreth Your ideas on riding feats for mounted combat are interesting, but at my current place in the druidic order (Initiate of the 7th...
Not to burst your bubble, but you really can't bake 8 goodberries into a muffin and deliver 8 points of healing in one shot. First, the berries must be ...
In a message dated 1/31/04 5:33:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... I recently played a mod where the player of a druid wasted about and hour of play time arguing...
Darn logic and pesky rules ruining our muffin fun. :) I am sure that 1 berry limitation bent more than once. It doesn't seem like much of a difference between...
Which skills are considered class skills for animals? Say I wanted the old polar bear to learn climbing or my lion to pick up some ranks in swim or escape...
... into a ... berries must be ... The berries must be "Freshly picked" to be enchanted, no where does it say "They must go straight off the bush to your...
Dear Nadara (the cave girl) and Snuggler Cat First I would like to thank you for the message, being (an initiate of the 8th circle) mounted and fighting all...
Hildreth, You should change your animal companion to a "cheese weasel" I hear they are quite powerful. ;) Sorry, but somebody on the Duchy of Urnst Triad is...
... I'm not nearly so sure you're right (but don't have the books at hand), but right or wrong, you could have said it somewhat more friendly instead of ...
... 2d4 of them ... berry ... creature. The ... of 8 ... spell is ... of 1 ... does it ... berries ... exactly as ... potion ... average ... slightly better ...
To my brothers and sisters, Being able to summon nature's allies is not only a great honor, but of great use. I highly recomend the Thoqqua, it is very...
I would also refute Mr. Drummond's assertions. a) The spell must be cast on fresh berries. With a duration of 1 day/level (which can be Extended), alternate...
I wanted to apologize for being a little too fervent in my post. Been having a bad past few days and have been sick to boot. I took it out on Hildreth and for...
... wanted ... ranks ... As I understand it, you can only improve an animal's "class" skills as outlined in the MM. You can teach it the tricks as discussed...
... Look at it this way, if the ... I would suggest that you instead limit them to gaining ranks in untrained skills (as well as any trained skill that may...
Ah yes, feats for animal companions. My tiger is currently at 8HD, so next time he goes up in HD, when I am level 12, he will go to 10HD and gain a feat. I had...
... As far as Improved Crit is concerned, you'd pick one form of attack... (much like the dire wolf has weapon focus: bite, as I recall) If I'm not mistaken...
... As far as feats are concerned, I think we're limited to feats listed under Improving Monsters: Feats in the MM. I think I remember reading somewhere in...
Thanks John, I had not picked up that the skills animals have are considered their class skills. Since the ranks they aquire are limited (by INT), I doubt I...
There are no clear rules for this from what I can tell. Overall I think the advancing of animals was left vague because it was in the monster manual and DM's...
... and I wondered about buying it for the animal companion and if that would increase the number of tricks he could learn. Erich, I may not need to mention...
Wow...I hadn't thought of this either. I had always just assumed the stat bumps they already get were the only ones. Time to recalculate my Eagle's stats!...
These are from the SRD: "Animals are not capable of detailed reasoning, although with the Handle Animal skill it is possible to tame an animal and teach it to ...
... I have to agree with Michael on this one. Although your companion does get stat bumps as per the MM, raising its Intelligence to 3 or higher means it no...
... <mdrummon@e...> wrote: <snip> ... feats ... one ... we ... Hello, This is my first post on this group. I joined this group because my wife plays a driud,...
I will tell you that animal companions are great, and I love them to death. Having said this: 1 if the animal's INT becomes 3 it should become a "Magical...