Evoke the archetype of the warrior with faithful hound/wolf/cat/falcon/dragon companion that appears in a reasonable amount of mythology and fantasy.Let people sort of play Drizzt Do'Urden if they really feel they must.Replicate a feature of rangers in previous editions.The Beastmaster ranger is intended to do some overlapping subset of the following, and maybe other things: I'm leaving this as written, partly because I'm too lazy to change it, partly because it frankly horrifies me that things like 'is this animal less sentient than an actual literal zombie?' were not picked up before publication. NOTE: since I wrote this, I've discovered that some issues are addressed by the PHB errata.
On the plus side, here I tend to at least finish my sentences, instead of just tailing off, so. See also: constantly going off on tangents, rarely reaching actual conclusions, talking far too much.
Here my blog accurately recreates the experience of talking to me. * I am aware that an awful lot of my sentences start off with 'so'.
