Animal Ken

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You are trained at working with animals, and can teach them tricks, get them to follow your simple commands, or even domesticate them.

Handle an Animal

ChaMove Action

This task involves commanding an animal to perform a task or trick that it knows.

Task	DC
Normal	10
If the animal is wounded or has taken any nonlethal damage or ability score damage	12

Success: The animal performs the task or trick on its next action.

Failure: Your move action is wasted.

Trained Uses

Requires at least 1 rank in Animal Ken.

Calm an Animal

DC 20ChaMove Action

You can attempt to calm an animal that would otherwise try to flee a dangerous or stressful situation with a DC 20 Animal Ken check. This includes controlling a mount not trained for combat riding while in battle.

Success: The animal is calmed and will respond to your commands (as normal).

Failure: You fail to calm the animal. If you are mounted or otherwise control the animal, you can take a standard action to prevent it from fleeing, but nothing else.

Push an Animal

ChaFull-round Action

To push an animal means to get it to perform a task or trick that it doesn’t know but is physically capable of performing. This category also covers making an animal perform a forced march or forcing it to hustle for more than 1 hour between sleep cycles.

Task	DC
Normal	25
If the animal is wounded or has taken any nonlethal damage or ability score damage	27

Success: The animal performs the task or trick on its next action.

Failure: Your move action is wasted.

Rear a wild animal

Cha

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Failure:

Teach a trick

Cha

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Teach a role

Cha

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Failure: