Animal Companion Class

Animal Companion Class

I DM one game of D&d, and I play regularly in another. In both campaigns, we have a lot of animals that travel with us but, as both campaigns approach level 10, the utility of these animal companions is quickly disappearing. Most of the monsters we face can one-hit them. 

    Then I found this post by @rollforlesbian where they made a Mount class. https://rollforlesbian.tumblr.com/post/184515484919/okay-story-time-today-literally-this-morning-i I loved the idea but in my groups, we don’t really bother with our mounts. We do however have dogs that fight alongside us, and birds we use to scout things out. So I decided to make a class for all animal companions, divided into  three subclasses: the Steed for mounts - horses and deer and big dogs for halflings and such; the Scout for sneaky, clever creatures like weasels, birds, foxes and such; and the War Beast for dogs, wolves, the fighting animals. 

Check it out,  and let me know if you find it useful! 

Most notably, the Companions don’t level traditionally, don’t increase their HP with every level up and only go up to level 10. The reason for this is that I don’t want to totally steal the utility away from the Beastmaster Ranger, which in the PHB sucks but there IS @theladyspanishes Beastmaster Redux which is amazing. I also just try never to steal from one option to give to another. These Companions are meant to be cool, and useful into the mid and even high levels but not SO good that they can replace an actual PC or class.