Animal Lore

When dealing with animals (whether breeding, training, or hunting them), you need knowledge about their behavior, anatomy, and diet. You can judge unknown animals by comparing them to ones you know well. For water creatures, use the skill Fishing instead.

Use: Mimicry (see page 218)
Check: COU/COU/CHA
Applications: Domesticated Animals, Monsters, Wild Animals
Encumbrance: yes
Quality: the hero gains more information about an animal
Failed Check: the hero has no idea.
Critical Success: the hero has extensive knowledge of that type of animal.
Botch: you feel confident, but everything you think you know about the animal is wrong (you think an animal isn’t dangerous even though it is highly poisonous, or you believe it is herbivorous when it is actually carnivorous).
Improvement Cost: C
Note: Animal Lore can be used to train domesticated animals only.

• Identify animal behavior — depends on the animal
• Gather frogs, slugs, and worms as food for the party for a day — 1 QL = one ration