Where/What is Belkar's Animal Companion?

[Scarey Nerd]

This may have been answered in the past, but I looked through the most recent threads in this forum and couldn't find it.

Is it like V's familiar, in that it's forgotten about? Because he moans about only getting a little sausage-dog mount, but surely as a Ranger he could have something a lot more epic, for instance a wolf (Which, as a medium creature, he could ride if memory serves).

[Anonymouswizard]

The question is never answered, but I like to think it is...

Mr Scruffy!

[Scarey Nerd]

The question is never answered, but I like to think it is...

Mr Scruffy!

Warning: The above statement contains large amounts of win.

That is all.

[The Rose Dragon]

Unless it's Mr. Scruffy, he doesn't have one. Animal Companions are optional, not obligatory. For that matter, so are familiars (Xykon doesn't have one, as far as we know).

[Scarey Nerd]

Unless it's Mr. Scruffy, he doesn't have one. Animal Companions are optional, not obligatory. For that matter, so are familiars (Xykon doesn't have one, as far as we know).

Unless...

Would his phylactery be eligible for being a familiar, if it had properties that we didn't know about? Just a thought.

[Rin_Hunter]

Unless...

Would his phylactery be eligible for being a familiar, if it had properties that we didn't know about? Just a thought.

I believe there are rules for item familiars in 3.5E but I can't remember where... Unless I'm making it up

But I doubt his Phylactery is his familiar.

[factotum]

A familiar has to be a living creature, AFAIK, whereas Xykon's phylactery is clearly an amulet (Redcloak's holy symbol, as it happens). Even if it were possible to have a non-living familiar, I'm really not sure what benefit he'd get from it anyway!

[Rin_Hunter]

A familiar has to be a living creature, AFAIK, whereas Xykon's phylactery is clearly an amulet (Redcloak's holy symbol, as it happens). Even if it were possible to have a non-living familiar, I'm really not sure what benefit he'd get from it anyway!

Those kinds of benefits. Knew I wasn't making it up.

[LuPuWei]

Those kinds of benefits. Knew I wasn't making it up.

Reminds me of Roy's sword...

[The Rose Dragon]

Item familiars don't replace normal familiars, though. You can pretty much have both.

[The Dark Fiddler]

Although there are some Alternate Class Features that replace familiars, like that one that keeps metamagic from taking a full round action to apply.

[137beth]

Belkar killed it before he even met roy

[Scarey Nerd]

Belkar killed it before he even met roy

Is this canon or a theory (A realistic theory though )

[Escheton]

He multiclassed out of ranger before getting it?

[Scarey Nerd]

He multiclassed out of ranger before getting it?

It's never been suggested that he's multiclassed, though it's entirely reasonable that he has some fighter, or some barbarian from the college

Edit: According to Lord Shojo, Belkar has a "Sprinkling of Barbarian".

[fwiffo]

Does Roy qualify?

[hamishspence]

It's never been suggested that he's multiclasses, though it's entirely reasonable that he has some fighter, or some barbarian from the college

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0176.html

"Halfling rage jumping attack" may imply he has a barbarian level now.

[Nilan8888]

I'd probably think of Belkar, if played by an actual person, would be an example of a character that, for whatever reason, opted out of having an animal companion for most of his early levels and then chose to get one midway through the adventure, and the DM thus worked it into the campaign.

The real answer of course, is probably the more mundane "it was just written in".

[GrlumpTheElder]

It's never been suggested that he's multiclasses, though it's entirely reasonable that he has some fighter, or some barbarian from the college

He does have some Barbarian in him;

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0610.html

Panel 9

[GlueDuck]

He does have some Barbarian in him;

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0610.html

Panel 9

We've been knowing that for quite some time now.

[Nimrod's Son]

We've been knowing that for quite some time now.

Yes, and the last few posts have been discussing whether he took levels in Barbarian or just had a look round the college.

[DemLep]

I asked a similar question recently. The best answer I could come up with is that he opted out of a AC at a lower level to get a more powerful one later.

As for the familiar there are class variants and feats that either don't give you one or take it away for a bonus. This could explain Xykon's lack of a familiar.

[factotum]

Or maybe Xykon doesn't have a familiar because he doesn't want one? The characters in the strip are more than the sum of their stats and feats, after all...

[Morquard]

Xykon had a familiar once.
Then he forgot about it.
And forgot to feed it too
So its dead now. If he ever remembers it, he can zombify his familiar.

[Cizak]

Granted I do now play DnD, but is there any question that Mr. Scruffy is his familiar? He follows Belkar around pretty much all the time and he helps him out in combat. Isn't that what a familiar do?

[Lecan]

Xykon had a familiar once.
Then he forgot about it.
And forgot to feed it too
So its dead now. If he ever remembers it, he can zombify his familiar.

It probably has his keys.

[Morph Bark]

It's always possible Xykon's familiar got killed within one year and a day since we last saw him.

But it's more likely that it's the case as with V's familiar and he forgot about it.

[slayerx]

I asked a similar question recently. The best answer I could come up with is that he opted out of a AC at a lower level to get a more powerful one later.

Hence Mr.Scruffy

[factotum]

Granted I do now play DnD, but is there any question that Mr. Scruffy is his familiar? He follows Belkar around pretty much all the time and he helps him out in combat. Isn't that what a familiar do?

Animal companion, not familiar--they're two different things.

[Cizak]

Animal companion, not familiar--they're two different things.

I meant animal companion.