Animal Empathy is a Common skill, and is modified by your Charisma.
In tune with the instincts and emotions of animals, the Animal Empathy skill highlights your character’s exceptional ability to communicate and bond with creatures of the natural world. This skill is used for checks related to calming frightened animals, gaining their trust, and intuitively understanding their needs. Additionally, it grants a bonus when dealing with both ordinary Animals and dangerous Beasts, reflecting your insight into their motivations and behavior.
As your skill in Animal Empathy advances, you will gain additional benefits from it.
Increased Affinity: When you first attain a new title in Animal Empathy (Initiate or Apprentice), you gain a 25% Affinity increase in either the Animal Handing or Animal Husbandry skill. You can gain this affinity even if you did not have a previous Affinity Bonus or Ranks in the chosen skill.
Initiate (Ranks 10-19):
Animal Synergy: You can apply your ranks in Animal Empathy to any other skill directly involving Animals, Beasts, or Monstrosities, such as Stealth or Tracking. Additionally, when making an Animal Empathy check to calm or intimidate an Animal, you roll twice and use the better result.
Apprentice (Ranks 20-34):
Animal Cognition: Animals and Beasts will not attack you unless provoked. If given a choice, they will avoid targeting you, selecting another target if possible. Any Animal or Beast that does attack you suffers a penalty to its attack rolls equal to your ranks in Animal Empathy. This effect does not extend to Monstrosities.
All of these bonuses are cumulative.
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