jakjr15
April 29th, 2020, 05:01
I was curious to know how people take care of players who have Animal Companions and/or Familiars. Do you give them a second character sheet to fill out as their minion, just place a dummy token on the map, or use an NPC sheet for the minion? If you do something else that I haven't though of, please list that as well.
So far I've only tried the character sheet option and the only downfall to it is initiative. If you don't put them in the combat tracker, they aren't able to be targeted (as far as I can figure out). If they are in the combat tracker, they take up a place in the initiative order that doesn't represent the players initiative. If there's a way to keep two players or creatures to have the same initiative, that may resolve this easy. I just find it a little annoying to have to adjust the initiative for the minion all the time.
So far I've only tried the character sheet option and the only downfall to it is initiative. If you don't put them in the combat tracker, they aren't able to be targeted (as far as I can figure out). If they are in the combat tracker, they take up a place in the initiative order that doesn't represent the players initiative. If there's a way to keep two players or creatures to have the same initiative, that may resolve this easy. I just find it a little annoying to have to adjust the initiative for the minion all the time.