An animal that is given a command it is trained to follow,
Animal Companions
The knight and his trusted steed, the mercenary and his
loyal fighting dog, the thief and her pick-pocketing monkey,
the ranger and her fierce hunting falcon, or the young lion
that was raised by the tribesman — humanoids have been
using trained animals since the dawn of civilization.
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Handling Animals
Whether or not you can effectively control one or multiple
animals highly depends on your skills as an animal handler.
Depending on your proficiency with the Animal Handling
skill, you can control one or multiple animals at the same
time. Your proficiency and experience also determines how
strong and powerful an animal can be in order for you to
tame and control it.
See the Handling Animals by Proficiency table for a
quick overview.
Controlling Animals in Combat
An animal freely follows and executes commands it is
trained to do. A beast of burden is trained to pull or move
on command, a horse is trained to jump when the rider
wants to, and a fighting dog is trained to attack.
Commanding an animal to do what it is trained for requires
no ability check by the handler, but an untrained handler
must spend more of her focus on an animal than a
proficient one.
Your animals take their turns on your initiative. On your
turn, you can verbally issue one command to one animal.
If similar to its usual prey. A hunting animal tries to flee or
you are proficient in the Animal Handling skill, you can also
use a bonus action to issue the same simple command (e.g.
heel) — or use your action to issue the same complex
command (e.g. attack the same target) — to multiple of your
animal companions.
Depending on the animals training, a command always
includes ordering an animal to move to a certain (easy to
reach) location and take one of certain actions, detailed in
the Trainings Types and Commands table below.
Trying to command an animal to do something it isn't
trained for — e.g. forcing an animal untrained for combat
towards danger — or any other unusual but reasonable
action always counts as a complex command and
additionally requires a successful DC 20 Wisdom (Animal
Handling) check.
An animal never requires your command to use its
reaction, but only hunting, guard, and war animals can use
their reactions to make opportunity attacks.
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will continue to perform that command until ordered
otherwise. If it doesn't have a command to follow, the beast
will either flee or hide (taking the Dash or Hide action) or
stand its ground (taking the Dodge action).
If you are incapacitated, or absent, an animal acts on its
own, following its training and nature to the best of its
abilities.
Training Types and Commands
Simple Complex
Training Command Command
Pet, Draft, Riding Dash Hide
Hunting, Guard, War 
Dash, Hide, Attack, Disengage,
Search Help, Ready
Training Types
The following types of training exist:
Draft. A draft animal is trained to pull or push vehicles
or carry heavy loads. Draft animals are usually bred for
strength and a stoic personality, and are less difficult to
keep under control than pets. A draft animal tries to flee or
hide when it has lost a quarter of its hit points.
Guard. A guard animal is trained to stay on post or patrol
an area on its own for an extended period of time, as well
as alert its owner to any unknown person or threat it
detects. Guard animals are often hostile towards other
humanoids besides its owner. A guard animal tries to flee
or hide when it has lost half of its hit points.
Hunting. A hunting animal is trained to assist during a
hunt, by coursing, startling, or actively catching the prey. A
hunting animal willingly attacks only creatures that are
hide when it has lost half of its hit points.
Pet. A pet is only trained to be housebroken and follow
the owner around. A pet tries to flee or hide in the face of
danger.
Riding. A riding animal is trained to carry a rider and
quickly follow command from the saddle. A riding animal
tries to flee or hide when it has lost a quarter of its hit
points.
War. An animal trained for war is trained to attack
creatures much larger than itself and has advantage on
saving throws against being frightened. A war animal fights
to the death.
Wild. If you find yourself accompanied by a wild animal
that follows your commands, a predator is considered
trained for hunting, while a flight animal is either a pet,
draft, or riding animal.
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 Downtime Activity: Train Animals
Taming or training an animal takes time, empathy, and
patience.
Resources. Taming or training an animal typically takes
at least several workweeks, in which you constantly train
with the animal. You need at least 2 hours of concentrated
training each day in order to make any progress. Any
additional training might risk overexerting the animal and
losing training progress or its Trust (see below). However,
you can train different animals on the same day.
An untrained, but otherwise tame animal must always be
trained as a pet before it can receive any further training.
Likewise, any wild animal must first be tamed —
becoming used to the presence of the trainer and accepting
food and physical contact — before it can receive training
as a pet.
If you bought an already trained animal, you still need to
gain its Trust first. Until then, you suffer certain penalties
when commanding it (see Trust below).
Resolution. After each week of training, make a DC 10
Wisdom (Animal Handling) check. This check is modified
by the type of training you wish to impart.
Once you have accumulated a certain number of training
successes, the training is considered successfully finished.
Required
Training Modifier Successes
Tame Wild Animal -5 or lower 20
Pet 0 2
Draft 0 4
Riding -5 8 You have a knack dealing with beasts and making them
Hunting / Guard -5 12
War -10 20
Gain Trust 0 2
Complications. If you rolled a total of 5 or lower on your
Wisdom (Animal Handling) check, you overexerted the
animal or made a grave mistake. You lose a number of
training successes equal to 6 minus your result. Rolling a 1
on the d20 always counts as a failure, though any setback is
determined by the final result.
If you fail twice in a row, you lost the animal's Trust (see
below).
If you fail twice in a row while trying to regain an
animal's Trust, you lost the last chance of cooperation. It
will no longer follow any of your commands unless it has
no other choice and it will try to run away from you
whenever the opportunity arises.
Trust
Whether you have recently bought a new animal
companion or made several mistakes in training your own,
you need to gain its trust in order for it to follow your
orders without hesitation.
Until you (re-)gain an animal's Trust, you suffer the
following disadvantages:
All your Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks regarding
this animal are made with disadvantage.
You must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom (Animal
Handling) check to issue a command the animal is
already trained to follow.
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Option: Beast-like Creatures
With your DMs permission, you can also try to tame and
train certain beast-like creatures (e.g. griffons, worgs, or
wyverns). As a guideline, any beast-like creature with an
Intelligence score of 6 or less, could be eligible, but the DM
has the final say.
Taming and training such a beast-like monster follows
the same rules as training an animal, however, your
Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks to tame or train the
creature suffer an additional negative modifier equal to the
monster's CR (minimum 0), and the number of required
successes is doubled.
Option: Breaking the Beast
Building trust and a positive relationship takes time,
empathy, and patience. If you have neither, you can instead
try to break the animal to make it heed your call. Breaking
an animal only takes half the required successes, however
if you fail a Wisdom (Animal Handling) check, you not only
suffer a potential setback, but are also attacked by the
animal and must first subdue it before being able to
continue.
A broken animal bears no love to — and might potentially
turn on — its master, if the master ever shows any signs of
weakness. More than one goblin worg master was mauled
by their beasts in a moment of weakness or carelessness.
New Feat: Animal Wrangler
Prerequisite: Proficiency with the Animal Handling skill
follow your commands. You gain the following benefits:
You gain expertise in the Animal Handling skill,
doubling your proficiency bonus for any ability check
you make that uses that proficiency.
On your turn, you can issue one additional free or bonus
action command to one of your animal companions.
In addition, you learn animal friendship and beast bond,
each of which you can cast once without expending a
spell slot. You regain the ability to cast those two spells
in this way when you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your
spellcasting ability for both spells.
Buying Animals (examples)
  Animal Price     Animal Price  
  Dog, pet 5 gp     Horse, draft 50 gp  
  Dog, draft 10 gp     Horse, riding 75 gp  
  Dog, riding 25 gp     Horse, war 300 gp  
  Dog, guard 50 gp     Bird, pet 25 gp  
  Dog, hunting 50 gp     Bird, hunting 75 gp  
  Dog, war 100 gp     Bird, war 150 gp  
Revised Druid & Ranger spells
Animal Friendship (revised)
1st-level enchantment (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: 24 hours
This spell lets you convince a beast that you mean it no
harm. Choose a beast that you can see within range. It
must see and hear you. The beast must have an
Intelligence of 6 or lower or the spell fails. Otherwise, the
beast must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be
charmed by you for the spell's duration. If you or one of
your companions harms the target, the spell ends.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a spell
slot of 2nd level or higher, you can affect one additional
beast for each slot level above 1st.
Beast Bond (revised)
1st-level enchantment (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: 5 feet
Components: V, S, M (fine food and rare herbs worth 50
gp, which the spell consumes)
Duration: 1 year
You can form a close bond with an animal that is friendly to
you or charmed by you.
When you cast the spell, choose a friendly beast within
range. The beast must remain friendly and in range during
the entire casting.
Once bond, this beast becomes your loyal companion and
will obey your commands to the best of its abilities, giving
you advantage on your Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks.
You also establish a telepathic link with the beast. While
within line of sight, the beast can understand your
telepathic messages, and it can telepathically communicate
simple emotions and concepts back to you. In addition, this
link allows you and the beast to sense each others direction
and distance within up to 5 miles, and whether the other is
injured or unconscious.
If you are incapacitated or absent, your companion acts
on its own, focusing on finding and protecting you and
itself.
When the spell ends or is suppressed (e.g. by an
antimagic field), the beast remains loyal to you, but you lose
any benefits given by the spell.
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Calm Beasts
1st-level enchantment
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You attempt to suppress strong emotions in a group of
beasts. Each beast in a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a
point you choose within range must make a Wisdom saving
throw; a beast can choose to fail this saving throw if it
wishes.
If a beast fails its saving throw, choose one of the
following two effects:
You can suppress any effect causing a target to be
charmed or frightened. When this spell ends, any
suppressed effect resumes, provided that its duration
has not expired in the meantime.
Alternatively, you can make a target indifferent about
creatures of your choice that it is hostile toward. This
indifference ends if the target is attacked or harmed by a
spell or if it witnesses any of its friends being harmed.
When the spell ends, the beast becomes hostile again,
unless the DM rules otherwise.
Revivify Beast
1st-level necromancy
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (rare herbs and incense worth 50 gp,
which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You touch a beast that has died within the last 10 minutes.
That beast returns to life with 1 hit point. This spell can’t
return to life a beast that has died of old age, nor can it
restore any missing body parts.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a spell slot
of 2nd level or higher, the beast returns to live with 10
additional hit points for each slot level above 1st. It can't
gain more hit points than its hit point maximum.
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