As your beast levels up, it doesn’t grow with you in power. The rule summons one of the more modern “spirit” pets: resummonable companions with their own stat blocks and actions that can be commanded as a bonus actionĮven then, the Beastmaster still feels a bit lackluster. New rules in Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything present a kind of fix for it by replacing it with a rule called Primal Companion. But it takes your action to make it do anything. As a Beastmaster, you gain a beast companion that has to be CR 1/4 or lower. In particular, Beastmaster rangers have always had it rough.Ī big part of this is owed to the mechanics of the key part of your class: your animal companion.
Rangers have been one of the more vocally maligned classes in D&D. But perhaps one of the most exciting options is for rangers. The latest D&D book, Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, has a ton of new options for players. Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons has a new subclass that will give you the animal companion you’ve been dreaming of.
