Hi all!

My girlfriend has always loved the loth-cat sense seeing it in star wars rebels. And i recently bought the nexus of power book and flipped through to Lothal amd saw they have stats for a loth-cat!

So i am just looking for Ideas for how i should present her going about this...

Was going to have a villiager on spintir have it in a cage with a wolf pelt covering it. As they brought it to this planet to help rid their camp of rodents but the loth-cat was never happy about being taken away from its home planet and would always act out and wouldnt let people get close to it.(like a feral cat or a cat that is not use to people handling it/telling it what to do).

So i was thinkg about having her get to engaged range and have her to a possible average survial check?

Any other advice/tips on how to make this work and more interesting!

Thanks everyone!

Throw food for it at close range, leave out water/blue milk in a saucer, as the loth-cat tucks in PC attempts a sneak to get close. A failure means Start Again... repeat until Loth-cat is 'tame'

PC would have to roleplay and make extended rolls, taming/teaching animals doesn't happen overnight - unless you're a Jedi

...and the saying goes 'You don't keep a cat, the cat keeps you.' Compared to dogs they're not really as loyal, they weren't bred that way. If a cat isn't happy they'll happily sod off and catch their own dinner, if they're happy with the owner they'll bring back a mouse or bird's head as a 'thank you'

I say this as the brother of the girl who said to my mom 'can we just leave some milk out?' We eventually became the stray/feral cat's pets after about 2 months.... that was just into the kitchen, two weeks later the cat ventured upstairs.

I don't recall the Loth-Cat stats off the top of my head, but I suspect it's a minion. If so, it's not likely a big deal to keep as a pet. I would think a Survival vs Discipline check would work out fine.

Long-term, if she wants to train the Loth-cat to be a formidable foe, talk to her about investing into the Pathfinder career. It offers a talent that grants her an animal companion. You can beef up the stats to something more appropriate as they grow in power

I dont think she wants it specifically for fighting. More having a cute companion that can retrieve items and roleplay with.

Maybe the loth cat could follow her around but not able to fight for her yet?

If it's ultimately a fluff-thing, and that the pet loth-cat won't routinely be providing any mechanical bonuses, then I'd say a Survival check at an Average difficulty (possibly including setback dice for just how feral the local loth-cat population is) and a brief role-playing montage is all that's really needed.

If she wants the loth-cat to provide mechanical perks on a regular basis, then I'd say the character needs to invest in Pathfinder or Hermit (Savage Spirits) to get the Animal Bond talent.

I don't recall the Loth-Cat stats off the top of my head, but I suspect it's a minion. If so, it's not likely a big deal to keep as a pet. I would think a Survival vs Discipline check would work out fine.

Long-term, if she wants to train the Loth-cat to be a formidable foe, talk to her about investing into the Pathfinder career. It offers a talent that grants her an animal companion. You can beef up the stats to something more appropriate as they grow in power

The loth-cat is a rival.

Throw food for it at close range, leave out water/blue milk in a saucer, as the loth-cat tucks in PC attempts a sneak to get close. A failure means Start Again... repeat until Loth-cat is 'tame'

PC would have to roleplay and make extended rolls, taming/teaching animals doesn't happen overnight - unless you're a Jedi

...and the saying goes 'You don't keep a cat, the cat keeps you.' Compared to dogs they're not really as loyal, they weren't bred that way. If a cat isn't happy they'll happily sod off and catch their own dinner, if they're happy with the owner they'll bring back a mouse or bird's head as a 'thank you'

I say this as the brother of the girl who said to my mom 'can we just leave some milk out?' We eventually became the stray/feral cat's pets after about 2 months.... that was just into the kitchen, two weeks later the cat ventured upstairs.

what do you mean by extended rolls.... sorry for n00b questions...

because I want her to be able to keep this cat around, but not immediately be able to fight with her and not follow too many orders. any ideas on that?. maybe it follows her around becuase she fed it and it was being deprived of food and over time she can work with it and train it to hunt and retrieve items for her....

basically what I am seeing is she would have to go down the pathfinder tree to ultimately train the cat to do things for her?

Have your group's mechanic craft a droid. Give it a loth cat fur-coat

Are you looking for a long term, many checks over time option? Perhaps you have her roll an initial Survival vs Discipline check, with Setback as Donovan suggested. Only one check per day may be attempted.

• Success: the Loth-cat will respond positively, but not trust entirely - Downgrade the next Survival check. Continue to downgrade on success until there is only an Easy check to overcome.
• Failure: the loth-cat still responds, but deals wounds equal to Failures due to scratches and bites - Upgrade next check.
• Advantage: add Boost to next check
• Threat: Every day, the loth-cat deals this character (or every character) this amount of Strain due to general annoying cat stuff.
• Triumph: Very positive response. Remove any negative effects from Threat.
• Despair: The loth-cat escapes into the ship and must be retrieved before another check can be made.

Now, this is probably way too involved to just tame a pet, but it could lead to come fun hijinks with your players.

To do anything more than make the loth-cat a docile pet, the Pathfinder spec is probably needed.

If the cat is largely for fluff I'd say you don't need any mechanical device for its acquisition and arguably even its attachment to the PC. The Force moves in strange ways -- there's no such thing as luck. Even if the character isn't a pathfinder, it could certainly be part of her destiny to befriend this loth-cat. And subsequently, it could grant her bonus dice on skulduggery checks made to pilfer small items at some point in the future (though this might initially take the narrative form of the loth-cat bringing small dead animals as ExpandingUniverse suggested.)

Edit: If you are dead-set on using mechanics, Survival is the skill your PC needs to employ to assist in handling an animal (pg 128 of the FaD Core Rulebook). With the expanded descriptions for Survival in Savage Spirits, your PC can even first use Survival to craft an instrument that, if well-made, can grant bonus dice on subsequent Survival checks to handle animals (pg 66 of Savage Spirits). The risk of using a mechanical benefit in this way as opposed to simply narrating the loth-cat's connection to your PC using the Force is that threat generated by Survival checks can be spent to make the loth-cat hostile towards your PC. Instead of extended checks, you really only need to make Survival checks whenever it is appropriate to do so, such as when the PC is asking the loth-cat to use its skills to accomplish a task, or to get it to stop tearing up the pilot's seat in your G9 light rigger.

Thanks everyone very much!!!

Throw food for it at close range, leave out water/blue milk in a saucer, as the loth-cat tucks in PC attempts a sneak to get close. A failure means Start Again... repeat until Loth-cat is 'tame'

PC would have to roleplay and make extended rolls, taming/teaching animals doesn't happen overnight - unless you're a Jedi

...and the saying goes 'You don't keep a cat, the cat keeps you.' Compared to dogs they're not really as loyal, they weren't bred that way. If a cat isn't happy they'll happily sod off and catch their own dinner, if they're happy with the owner they'll bring back a mouse or bird's head as a 'thank you'

I say this as the brother of the girl who said to my mom 'can we just leave some milk out?' We eventually became the stray/feral cat's pets after about 2 months.... that was just into the kitchen, two weeks later the cat ventured upstairs.

what do you mean by extended rolls.... sorry for n00b questions...

because I want her to be able to keep this cat around, but not immediately be able to fight with her and not follow too many orders. any ideas on that?. maybe it follows her around becuase she fed it and it was being deprived of food and over time she can work with it and train it to hunt and retrieve items for her....

basically what I am seeing is she would have to go down the pathfinder tree to ultimately train the cat to do things for her?

Sorry 'bout that. A 'to hit' roll is an instant effect - either hit or miss.

Any extended roll will accumulate successes (hopefully) any threats, disadvantages need to be overcome on the next roll...like the doid making in SpecMods... 3 or 4 rolls etc to build a droid from scratch one roll per day of building. I'm AFB.

or don't bother at all. It's your game - having FUN is the main thing