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<blockquote data-quote="Magus Coeruleus" data-source="post: 919190" data-attributes="member: 1704"><p>So do you think the ability will either not improve with level or will improve with level but not through the addition of ranks in any skill? Either way, it has nothing to do with affecting humans. If Wild Empathy happens to let you use Diplomacy to influence and improve the attitude levels of animals, that in itself doesn't make Druids any better at Diplomacy with humans. It would just let them apply their people skills (however much they have) to animals as well. It wouldn't give you free mods to Diplomacy, just let you apply what you've got to animals. In any event, Diplomacy is already a class skill for Druids, which makes it as easy for them to have that people-skill as it is for Clerics.</p><p></p><p>In the game we played this past weekend, one curious thing that came up was my character's trying to get a sense for what a porpoise was trying to communicate to him. He had no speak with animals ability, but it was clearly trying to "tell" him something so the DM decided I should have some kind of check to see how well he could intuit that. He decided to have me make a Sense Motive check just as you'd try to get a hunch from observing a person. It would be kind of neat if Wild Empathy let you apply all sorts of people-related communication skills to animals (limited, of course, by what's possible given their intelligence). Of course I have no basis for thinking it will work that way, but I do think it would be sort of elegant.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magus Coeruleus, post: 919190, member: 1704"] So do you think the ability will either not improve with level or will improve with level but not through the addition of ranks in any skill? Either way, it has nothing to do with affecting humans. If Wild Empathy happens to let you use Diplomacy to influence and improve the attitude levels of animals, that in itself doesn't make Druids any better at Diplomacy with humans. It would just let them apply their people skills (however much they have) to animals as well. It wouldn't give you free mods to Diplomacy, just let you apply what you've got to animals. In any event, Diplomacy is already a class skill for Druids, which makes it as easy for them to have that people-skill as it is for Clerics. In the game we played this past weekend, one curious thing that came up was my character's trying to get a sense for what a porpoise was trying to communicate to him. He had no speak with animals ability, but it was clearly trying to "tell" him something so the DM decided I should have some kind of check to see how well he could intuit that. He decided to have me make a Sense Motive check just as you'd try to get a hunch from observing a person. It would be kind of neat if Wild Empathy let you apply all sorts of people-related communication skills to animals (limited, of course, by what's possible given their intelligence). Of course I have no basis for thinking it will work that way, but I do think it would be sort of elegant. [/QUOTE]
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