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Magic item that grants Animal Companion

Unfortunately, this is not an area I am particularly adept in as I haven't done much with Animal Companions to date. I will take a look at it, but if someone who knows this stuff better wants to chime in in the meantime, feel free.
 
I've done some work in Animal Companions before, I'll take a look at it sometime this week and see if I can help. Animal Companions are pretty tricky though.
 
No, sorry. I wasn't able to figure it out. I'll take another look as soon as I back in front of HL in the new year.
 
The problem with implementing this feat is that it creates an entirely new kind of companion. It's not strictly an animal companion, nor does it fall under any of the other categories (familiar, mount, etc). I think we have two options. The first is to see if we can use a feat to add an animal companion to a character, then have that feat modify the companion to strip out additional benefits a true companion gets. The other is to create a template that could be added to any animal, but this would mean having to manually increase HD since the cohort would not be connected to the character in any way other than being in the same portfolio. Obviously, the first option is more desirable. I'll see what I can do.

Update:
Well, it took me a little while, but I finally figured out how to add an animal companion to a class. This doesn't mean I have the solution, but its a start. I'll continue with this tomorrow, and see if I can make further progress.
 
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One little snag I'm running into is that when a character has an Animal Companion from two sources, it stacks the classes. This means that I will likely not be able to make this feat usable with a character that has druid or ranger class levels (or any source with an animal companion) unless I can figure out how to detach them.
 
Ok, well, this isn't working as well as I'd hoped. Trying to bootstrap the ability just isn't working right. One alternative idea was to use a class variant. Unfortunately, to do so you have to select which class to alter or it won't compile. From a community set point of view, this means having to create many different versions of it, which I don't think makes a lot of sense. On a case-by-case basis, I think this would work ok. You'd still have to write the eval scripts to modify the companion. I can put together an example of one if you are interested.
 
This is going to have to wait until the next release. This can be done, but causes problems if you take it as a class that already has an Animal Companion. I need to dig into it more and see if I can make d20 allow a second companion. This would be useful for other things as well.
 
Rezzing this thread because I just figured out how to give a class an animal companion from a feat. This still won't work with classes that already have one, but it's a start.
 
Have you uploaded this feat anywhere? I am trying to make a class specific feat that allows animal companion. I cannot figure it out at all since I am not a programming or script writing.
 
ashuramarsh said:
Have you uploaded this feat anywhere? I am trying to make a class specific feat that allows animal companion. I cannot figure it out at all since I am not a programming or script writing.
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It's in the community set sourced to Online Content. Keep in mind this is for an animal cohort which is similar but not exactly the same as an animal companion. Let me know if this is what you need.
 
What is the name of this feat? I do not see Animal Ally in the tool set. I have the community stuff downloaded.

oh, nevermind found it shortly after this post. I was looking in the wrong game. :P
 
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