====== Animal Handling ======

**Ability:** Charisma.\\ **Requires Training:** Yes.\\ \\ Handle Animal represents a character's ability to influence, calm, and command animals through confidence, instinct, and understanding of animal behavior. Skilled characters can assert dominance over beasts, directing them to obey commands for a short time. Animals respond to strong presence and clear signals, allowing experienced handlers to control creatures that would normally act on instinct alone.\\ \\ **Uses:**\\ **- Dominate Animal:** The character may attempt to dominate an animal or similar creature. The DC depends on the type and strength of the creature.\\ **- Animals and Dire Animals:** DC 15 + the creature's Hit Dice.\\ **- Beasts and Magical Beasts:** DC 19 + the creature's Hit Dice.\\ \\ **Success:** The creature becomes dominated and follows commands as if it were a henchman.\\ \\ **Duration:** A dominated creature remains under the character's control for 1 turn per character level.\\ \\ **Failure:** If the check fails by 5 or more, the creature becomes hostile.\\ \\ **Special:** Dominated creatures may be directed through simple commands once control is established.