Handle Animals Skill

General Skills Rules:

• Taking 10: If you are not threatened or distracted you can take 10 on a roll.
• Taking 20: when you have plenty of time, 2 minutes or more and faced with no threats or distractions, you can take 20. This does not count as a ‘natural 20’ and indicate automatic success. Generally this takes 20 times longer than normal. You can’t take 20 on any check that has consequences for failure.
• “1” Rolls: When you roll a natural 1 on a skill check, roll D20 again. SUBTRACT this number from your check.
• “20” Rolls: When you roll a natural 20 on a skill check, roll D20 again. Add this number plus the 20 to your check. 

Handle Animals (CHA)(Trained Only) Retries: Yes Requires: varies

• Untrained: if no ranks you can still use to handle or push domestic animals but can’t train other animals.
• Synergy: If you have 4 or more ranks in handle animal gain +2 to ride and wild empathy checks.If an animal has taken damage, nonlethal damage or ability score damage, DCs +2.
• Handle an Animal: command an animal to perform a task or trick it knows. This is a move action.
• Rear a Wild Animal: DC provided in the description of the monster, may handle three such creatures at once.
• Push an Animal: get an animal to perform a task or trick it doesn’t know but is physically capable of. Can also be used to force an animal on a forced march or to hustle for more then one hour. Requires a full round action (druids or rangers can handle animal companion as a free action and push it as a move action).
• Teach and Animal a Trick : requires 1 week and a successful checks.

Trick DC:

• Attack DC:20 
• Come DC:15 
• Defend DC:20
• Down DC:15 
• Fetch DC:15 
• Guard DC:20
• Heal DC:15 
• Perform DC:15 
• Stay DC:15
• Track DC:20
• Work DC:15 
• Assist Attack* DC:20
• Assist Defending* DC:20 
• Assist Track * DC:20 
• Hold* DC:20
• Home* DC:20 
• Hunt* DC:15 
• Steal* DC:20
• Subdue* DC:20 
• Warn* DC:20
Train an Animal for a Purpose: teach an animal a preselected set of known tricks
• Combat Riding DC:20 
• Fighting DC:20 
• Guarding DC:20
• Heavy Labor DC:15 
• Hunting DC:20 
• Performance DC:15
• Riding DC:15 
• Advanced Fighting DC:20 
• Defensive Guarding DC:20
• Thievery DC:20