Beast Handler Skill

By Warl, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

I don't know if any others have made any additional skills for the Game themselves (If you have I would love to hear your Ideas)

But and Area I felt lacking in was any kind of Animal handling/Empathy/Training type skill For dealing with Animals..

I personally don't find any of the other Sentient based skills fits this properly... and I have a Player who might want to play a Beast Master/tamer Type Character.

I don't know if such a profession actually Exists in any of the other books...

But I was even considering making a New profession with Talent trees for them.

I figure Beast handling/Empathy Would be presence Based and Beast Training Might Be Will Based..

Any thoughts on both the Skills and the Profession.. Talents for this IDea?

Pretty sure Survival is the go-to skill for this kind of thing. It's used for everything else animal-related, like riding, taming and so on.

Yeah, Survival is the skill to use, as pretty much confirmed by the AoR Ace career book Stay on Target, especially with their Beast Rider specialization.

Ace career book (Stay on Target) from AoR has a beast rider Specialisation, as well as rules for riding, taming and making bra beast rider adventures. If the player want to go down that path it's highly recommend.

There is also the Pathfinder spec from the seeker career in Force and Destiny if the player would like a CRB instead

Yeah, Beast Rider and the Pathfinder specializations are two you might want to look into, depending on whether the player wants a Force-sensitive character or not. You don't need them, but if you wanna make a beast master type character, that's where I'd start.

not force sensitive... But does this Best rider profession cover options when your not going to be "riding" them, just training things like your Yard guard rancor?

It covers training, riding and caring for animals. Have a look at the tree for yourself in these cool PDF's of the Trees created by one of the forum members: begging for XP

thanks, this is what I am looking for.

There's a lot of "Remove Setback" talents in the tree, but the most important of those are the ones that remove setbacks from survival checks. High strung beasts will add in a lot of setbacks to the check, making those talents worthwhile.