[quote=Black_Elk
ps. speaking of cats and dogs though, I wish the game approached the "find familiar" and "animal companion" thing in a way that was a bit more engaging than just a regular random summons or a couple cutscenes at camp. As a wizard it'd be cool to choose between rolling with like say a fat orange tom, or a classic black Egyptian, or maybe a few different options to customize through dialog. A sub-creation screen similar to the "who do you dream of" to determine the look of our animal companions in other ways would be awesome. I'd like as a ranger (or anyone really) to have a dog or wolf I could name. Or for dogs to have a Mastiff or a Shepard or Hound. Stuff like that. Some stuff that doesn't need to be all druid involved, but more classic town for the regular animals. Questlines too. For the birds Mellencamp the chicken was pretty classic hehe.
A stronghold with a barn would be rad. They could play up animals and their interactions, or have factions of their own like with the shadow angle. I can imagine how the game might do some lip service without having to create a ton of new mechanics. But I would certainly like at some point to be able to charge into the fray on horseback at higher levels, but I'm sure it gives their animators night mares lol[/quote]
Yeah: here's an idea, like in previous versions of DnD we should be able to befriend animals we meet in the wild and make them animal companions... would be a lot more engaging. At least the summon format gets us away from the godawful Ranger rules in PnP 5th Ed. "You can forgoe your standard action for your companion to make an attack"...buddy, you can forgoe designing Rangers, alright?
