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Post by Fantômas on Jan 17, 2019 22:26:35 GMT
Does Ride include basic care of the animal knowledge whereas "Animal Handling & Training" is for more advanced stuff?
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Post by logan9a on Jan 17, 2019 23:27:27 GMT
No. You know how to get on it and make it go where you want with the ride skill. You know nothing about upkeep.
This is common with say aristocrats who know how to ride a horse and hand it off to a groomsman to 'fix it up'.
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Post by logan9a on Jan 17, 2019 23:29:18 GMT
copy past of animal handling skill:
Animal Handling (specify animal)
Allows you to saddle, hook up to different things meant for the animal (plow, wagon, etc) and to calm it down when it is irritated or freaked out. Riding does not calm the animal. Once a snake goes for it your riding roll will probably be just to stay on the beast while it does something like run into a fire.
Also, this skill allows you to care for the animal. Unlike vehicles that we are able to get into today, turn the key and blithely go where we want and the only thing we have to remember to do is hopefully lock it and take it in for service occasionally, beasts are a huge daily pain in the ass.
If you don’t know how to take care of them (often twice per day) they will go lame, start missing patches of hair from the saddle rubbing because you don’t know how to adjust the flank cinch and so on. And the animal will come to hate you over time.
Also caring for the animal in adverse conditions.
Cars are easier.
How to get around having to worry about this skill:
In many medieval places, they often had inns/taverns every day of the normal journey length.
This is a great way (if you stay on the road) to just be able to toss the reins and some money to the stable person and say ‘take care of the horse!’ and go in to drink. Sure, they may screw up their roll but at least you didn’t have to roll it.
Or run everywhere like they did in the first Conan movie. See skill “Long Distance Running”.
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Post by logan9a on Jan 17, 2019 23:30:42 GMT
Hence with just 'riding' you can't even be expected to saddle your own mount. Have someone do it for you.
Example: Logan personally knows how to ride horses on a basic level. I've ridden lots when I was young. Never in my life put a saddle on one or cared for it. Gave the reins to someone else and wandered off.
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