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Skill Rate: Fast
The knight's testy warhorse, the thief's uncannily smart pet rat, and
the magician's familiar: these are unusually powerful and loyal
animals, and are acquired with the Animal Backup skill. A character may
have only one animal companion at a time. If a character loses one for
any reason, he cannot designate a new one until he gains a level.
Unless otherwise specified, the following techniques can only be taken
once each. The creature's maximum level is your ranks in Animal Backup
minus one (minimum one)
Techniques:
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Smart:
The animal's intelligence permanently increases by one point, and it
can take ranks in Knowledge and Engineering.
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Clever:
[requires Smart]
the creature understands one spoken language (but obviously can't
talk).
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Strong:
The animal's strength permanently increases by one point.
-
Fighter:
[requires Strong]
One of the animal's unarmed attacks deals one higher die of damage.
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Tough
: The animal's Endurance permanently increases by one point.
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Thick-Skinned:
[requires Tough]
the animal's natural armour increases by two.
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Quick:
The animal's dexterity permanently increases by one point.
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Sprinter:
[requires Quick]
The animal's speed increases by one square of its scale
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Spirited:
the animal's spirit permanently increases by one point.
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Loyal
:
[requires Spirited]
The animal's Will score increases by three points.
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Familiar
:
[Requires Arcana 1 rank, Magic Skill 1 rank, Magic Power 1 rank]
The time spent hanging around a spellslinger such as yourself has had a
noticeable effect on your animal. Your animal can learn and cast one
complexity zero power zero spell, and gains the
[Magical]
tag. Your animal can take ranks in Arcana, Magic Power, Spell
Repertoire and Complexity next level.
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