Editing Animal Companion (section)

==5E==
The prospect of taking compaions in 5E are...not good. For Rangers, one of the classes that most relied the most on them, the pet was restricted to subclasses, with the CRB's Beastmaster subclass gaining the unsavory reputation of being the absolute shittiest class to have ever existed. See, it's one thing to just have a scaled-down monster from the bestiary with a minimal CR limitation, but the action economy actively works against them since the Ranger needs to spend feats in order to make them act - that's right, unless ordered, this pet will do nothing but sit like a fucking dumbass. When confronted with this complaint, [[Mike Mearls]] (then one of the writers for the game) insisted that people [[Bullshit|"just weren't playing them right".]] Efforts were made to slightly improve this, from the revised class writeups to new archetypes and ''Tasha's Cauldron of Everything'' introducing more generalized and overall better-received companions that didn't choke so hard on the action economy. 

As for the Druid and Paladin? Jack shit aside from some summon spells.