Animal Care

(Int) Advanced

The Animal Care Skill lets you tend and care for animals, and heal them should they fall sick or become wounded. Having a single Advance in Animal Care means you can keep animals healthy without needing to Test. You can also enact an Animal Care Test to identify and resolve problems with animals, such as:

• Spotting an illness.
• Understanding reasons for fractiousness or discomfort.
• Determining the quality of the animal.
• Heal Intelligence Bonus + SL Wounds (Note: an animal can only benefit from one healing roll after each encounter).
• Staunching a Bleeding condition.
• Preparing the animal for display.

In combat, you may appraise an enemy animal with an Animal Care Test. If successful, you and all you inform gain +10 to hit when attacking that animal — or anyone using it as a mount — until the end of your next turn, as you point out loose tack, a limp from a niggling wound, or highlight some other weakness or vulnerability. Animal Care may only provide a maximum of +10 to hit per animal, no matter how many Tests are made to spot weaknesses.

Intelligence