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If you have no ranks in Handle Animal, you can use a Charisma check to command and push domestic animals, but you can't teach, rear, or train animals. A druid with no ranks in Handle Animal can use a Charisma check to command and push her animal companion, but she can't teach, rear, or train animals, including her animal companion. | If you have no ranks in Handle Animal, you can use a Charisma check to command and push domestic animals, but you can't teach, rear, or train animals. A druid with no ranks in Handle Animal can use a Charisma check to command and push her animal companion, but she can't teach, rear, or train animals, including her animal companion. | ||
== Command an Animal == | == Command an Animal == | ||
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=== | == Speak With Animals (Epic) == | ||
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| Skill-Use = Speak With Animals (Epic) | |||
| Core-Skill = Handle Animal | |||
| Benefit = You can make yourself understood by a single species of creature, and understand the body language and intent of that type of such creatures for 24 hours. (A species of creature is a single monster entry on the bestiary table (e.g., [[Green Slime, Astringent]]), and all creatures of that exact type). Doing so is difficult on your vocal chords, and uncivilized in appearance, however, causing you to suffer a -4 penalty to all Charisma-based skills when interacting with creatures ''not'' of the selected creature type, while the skill use in in effect. You can dismiss it at any time as a free action, but you may not attempt it more than once per 24 hours. | |||
This ability may only be used on creatures with intelligence scores between 1 and 4, that do not speak a language. If the creature in question can communicate with an actual language, you must use [[Linguistics]] to communicate with it. | |||
''This is an epic skill use, and requires at least 21 ranks in the skill before it may be attempted.'' | |||
| Action = Standard action | |||
| DC = 40 | |||
= | | Modifiers = * '''More Intelligent:''' If the creature has an INT score greater than 4, but isn't capable of communicating with a language, or is only capable of understanding a language but not speaking it, you may still attempt to communicate with it, but suffer a penalty of +5 to the DC per point of INT above 4. This reflects the fact that such creatures, while without any real language, have more sophisticated non-verbal communication than less intelligent species. | ||
* '''Exclusive Speech:''' Some creatures will only communicate with their creators. You may attempt to communicate with these creatures despite this limitation, by adding +10 to the DC. This is cumulative with the penalty above for having an intelligence score greater than 4. | |||
| Take10-Take20 = No | |||
= | | Assist = No | ||
| Success = You are able to communicate with the chosen creature species for up to 24 hours. You suffer a -4 penalty to all Charisma-based skills when interacting with any creatures not of the chosen creature species. | |||
= | | Failure = You strain your vocal chords and make apish gestures to no avail. Your intentions are not understood by the target creature(s). | ||
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| Retry = No. This skill use may only be attempted once per 24 hours. | |||
= | | Provokes = No | ||
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