Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
It takes a lot more reasoning ability than a horse or a dog have, and those two are smarter than your typical animal.Does that take a 6 to think of?
It's because of the limitations of the game mechanics. The game only goes down to -5 and a basic animal is at -4. A monkey who is smarter than basic animals should be at -3. That puts apes at -2. You could more accurately reflect things if there were more penalties, such as if every number below 10 was a penalty of 1, instead of every other.Why would it need the mental capability of someone who only gets a -2 on history, arcana, etc, checks to know that you don't hit something if it hurt the first time or to know that it can use basic tools?