Animal Handling (WIL)

This broad skill provides a hero with the basic ability to train animals for labor, riding, tracking, and attacking. Purchasing the broad skill entitles a hero to select one type of animal to train.

Training

Requires a complex skill check and at least 4 hours a day working with the creature. After each week of continuous work, a skill check indicates successes. Interruption of a week means all successes are lost.

• Critical Failure: Animal goes berserk and attacks its trainer.
• Three Failure Results: Animal refuses to be trained.

Task Complexity

• Ordinary: Simple, one-word commands (Attack, Come, Sit, Stay).
• Good: Combination of two Ordinary tasks, or more difficult (pushing a lever).
• Amazing: Very few animals can or will do on command (running into a burning building).

Specialty Skills

• Animal Riding
• Animal Training

• Animal Riding: Racing, jumps, and mounted combat.
• Animal Training: Handle, ride, and train a specific type of animal.