Handle Animal

Skill Rate: Fast

With this skill, you can train and care for animals like a professional. Without this skill, a character can take care of an already domesticated animal (like a dog or housecat) and maybe teach them a few simple tricks. However, training in the skill is necessary for more ambitious endeavours, such as domesticating a wild animal, training a horse for combat, or even communicating, to an extent, with wild beasts. Unlike with Animal Backup, this skill will not grant you a fearless animal companion, though you may be able to use it to train fierce guard dogs to attack on command.

Uses:

Care for Animal: With a single rank in this skill, you can handle the day-to-day care of domesticated animals without much trouble.

As a Profession: Handle Animal can be used to get by as an animal trainer or a herder. Make a Handle Animal check, you can generally get your result squared in copper pennies for every day of labour.

Techniques :

1.   Nature‚s Friend: This technique allows you to communicate on a basic level with animals. You can use your Handle Animal skill to communicate with an animal in the same manner as you could use Charisma to communicate with another intelligent creature, but with a -2 penalty. Any communication with an animal is still limited by the animal‚s lack of understanding.
2.   Nature‚s Ally: [Requires Nature‚s Friend] With this technique, you eliminate the -2 penalty to communicating with animals using Nature‚s Friend.
3.   Nature‚s Champion: Supernatural   [Requires Nature‚s Ally] With this technique, you can telepathically communicate with any animal within 500m per point of Handle Animal bonus you have. For example, a character with a +8 Handle Animal skill bonus could communicate telepathically with a dog up to 4km (4000m) away.
4.   Call Lesser Wildlife: Supernatural   [Requires Nature‚s Ally] As a 4SA, you can attempt to call local animals to aid you. Make a Handle Animal check and divide the result by 3 (round down). The resulting number of CR 1 animals from the surrounding area (assuming there are any) rush to assist you. You can choose which kind of animals appear. Domesticated animals and animals that a character has from the Animal Backup skill are not affected by this ability. How long the animals take to arrive can vary, but under ideal circumstances it takes 1d6 + 2 rounds for them to appear. After helping, the animals go back about their daily business.
5.   Call Wildlife: Supernatural   [Requires Call Lesser Wildlife] When using Call Lesser Wildlife, you can call animals of up to CR 2.
6.   Call Greater Wildlife:   Supernatural   [Requires Call Wildlife, Nature‚s Champion] When using Call Wildlife, you can call animals of up to CR 3.
7.   Call Horde:   Supernatural   [Requires Call Wildlife] When using Call Lesser Wildlife, add +2 to the number of animals that you call.
8.   Domesticate Animal: With this technique, you can make a Handle Animal check against an animal‚s Will. This check is made after three months minus one week per point of Handle Animal bonus you have (minimum 1 day) of spending at least an hour a day training the animal. You can train a number of animals at the same time equal to your Handle Animal skill. If you succeed, the animal becomes domesticated.
9.   Train Animal for War: [Requires Domesticate Animal] With this technique, you can train an animal for war. This takes the same amount of time as domesticating it in the first place. The animal to be trained must be domesticated already. If you are successful, the animal will not panic and flee in battle (unless morale effects force it to) and trades its current character background for Military. This can be combined with Train Animal for Riding (see below) to create a steed for use in battle. With this technique, you earn ten times as much money when using Handle Animal as a profession. With this and Train an Animal for Riding, you earn twenty times as much.
10.   Train Animal for Riding:   [Requires Domesticate Animal] With this technique, you can train an animal for riding. This takes the same amount of time as domesticating it in the first place. The animal to be trained must be domesticated already, and must be type: Rideable. If you are successful, the animal can be ridden as a mount without panicking. With this technique, you earn ten times as much money when using Handle Animal as a profession.