Tame Animal

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(Combat, Handle Animal)

Benefit: You gain the following ability:

Tame

Animal KenDC 10 + creature's HD

You may attempt to train an animal to readily obey your commands in and out of combat. This requires 8 hours and a creature of the animal type that has an attitude toward you of indifferent or better. This time may be divided as per the magic item crafting rules.

You may only train one creature at a time with this ability. At the end of this period, make a Animal Ken check with a DC of 10 + the creature’s Hit Dice. If successful, the creature is now considered tame.

You may not tame a creature with more Hit Dice than you have ranks in Animal Ken. You may have multiple tame creatures under your control, but their total Hit Dice cannot exceed your ranks in Animal Ken. If you attempt to tame a creature that would exceed your Hit Dice cap, you must choose which other creatures to release. Animal companions and familiars, such as from class features, the Animal Companion feat, or the Pet feat, never count against this Hit Dice cap.

You may not use this ability on a creature with the swarm subtype. A creature with a template adds the challenge rating adjustment of the template to its HD (minimum increase +0) for determining if you may tame it and for how many creatures you can have tame. Variant creatures with increased challenge ratings (such as a pyrohydra compared to a normal hydra, if using the Broad Skills feat), treats the challenge rating increase of the variant as if it were a template for this purpose.

A creature whose permanent Intelligence score is raised above 2 is no longer a valid target for this ability and is automatically released. This effect ends if you go two full days without spending at least 1 hour training your tame creatures.

This is treated as an extraordinary mind-affecting compulsion effect for the purposes of opposed control checks, such as another compulsion effect affecting your tame creature. Use your ranks in Animal Ken in place of your caster level for the opposed check.

Prerequisite for: Animal Empathy, Beast Tamer, Bee Keeper, Bolster Beast, Broad Skills, Distant Tamer, Enduring Control, Greater Trainer, Mass Handle, Mass Tame, Mindless Mastery, Monster Breaker, Monster Tamer, Pack Attack, Permanent Control, Purposeful Training

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System Reference Document. Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook. Copyright 2009, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.

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