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.