Description
Animal Ken represents a character’s understanding of animal behaviour. A character can use this Skill to train animals, calm frightened or injured animals, or cow violent and aggressive creatures.
- Characters with Animal Ken understand how animals think and behave, whether through intuition and respect for animals or analytical observation
Examples
Sample Actions
- Animal training (Composure + Animal Ken)
- Cowing an animal (Presence + Animal Ken)
- Soothing an animal (Presence + Animal Ken
Sample Specialties
- Dogs
- Exotic Pets
- Horses
- Training
- Wild Animals
Sample Contacts
- Crazy Cat Lady
- Rodeo Horse Trainer
- Zoo Veterinarian
Levels
Examples and descriptions of someone at each level
Novice (1 dot)
- At this level, the character has a knack with animals and is good with just about any common animals
- He can make friends with any domesticate creature, and can establish a good relationship with most nonaggressive wild animals
Professional (2 dot)
- The character can work with animals professionally
- She knows how to handle and train commonly domesticated animals like dogs and horses
- They have some idea how to train many wild species, even ones that are normally aggressive or difficult to work with
Experienced (3 dot)
- At this rank, the character can easily train any domesticated animal
- Seems to have a sixth sense for how animals behave and what they are feeling
Expert (4 dot)
- The character can train animals to perform well beyond their normal behaviors
- She can train horses for combat or for movie tricks, or even train wild animals like tigers
Master (5 dot)
- The character can all but speak to animals
- He is an absolute expert in the behaviours of even wild animals, and can soothe or cow an angry bear or a hunting cougar