If you’re desperate for some company of a non-Adoring Fan kind as you run around Cyrodiil in Oblivion Remastered, odds are the base game’ll leave you wanting. Enter a new mod, which adds in a beast master system that’ll let you tame a furry or scaly pet.
After all, one could argue you’ve not really experienced Tamriel unless you’re having to stop after every fight to give your precious wild boar Bobo some heal minor wounds-infused tummy tickles
Beast Master is the mod in question, and the latest example of prolific ColdTyrant working to revamp 2025’s most 2006 release by giving folks new stuff to try once they’ve had their fill of shutting spooky doors.
Building on the pretty basic command creature spell from the base game, which Wood Elves have as a racial ability, he’s put together a means for you to tame any animal you come across in the wilderness via magic and have it permanently join you on your adventures as a named “combat pet”. In addition to being commandable and aiding you in fights like any regular companion, these pets can be fed grub from your inventory and interacted with in order to check on their mood.
That last bit has no impact in gameplay, so the mod’s more of the casual pet ownership experience than a full Nintendogs-style furry thing parent simulation that’ll leave you feeling even more unnerved than usual about your real life ability to look after actual human children.
Further to that end, you can only have one pet at any given time via the mod, so if you want to replace your tamed Imp named Fatso with a brown bear named Bingus or a troll named Sapphire, you’ll have to release the former back into the wild. As of right now, the mod has short lists of pre-defined names and recruitable animals for you to pick from, but ColdTyrant has indicated he’s open to adding more options based on suggestions.
Interestingly, the modder says he initially tried letting folks type in their own custom pet names, but had to ditch that option due to it being “literally impossible to rename an actor without clicking on them directly in the console” at the moment.
If you fancy giving this Beast Master mod a go, you’ll need to grab UE4SS and TesSyncMapInjector. The Oblivion Remastered Script Extender, MagicLoader 2, and NL-Tag Remover are optional installs, but not hard requirements.