doctorbadwolf
Heretic of The Seventh Circle
You lower your guard, they become more likely to attack you, even potentially at the expense of consequences depending on the character of your target. Otherwise you're going to need some social checks that won't always work, and probably can't be attempted by a wolf.
The premise of the thread is that it requires social Checks that won’t always work. Why would it always work?
I’m also unsure why a familiar couldn’t attempt it. Why would it require language?
You may not have caught it in the OP, but in this game we already flavour that when a familiar uses Help in combat; it is harrying the target with attacks that annoy, but don’t hurt enough to count as an “Attack”. Crows do this to eagles to distract them long enough to steal their food. A bird getting in your face and pecking at you annoyingly, and then circling you just out of immediate reach, absolutely could cause a creature to run at it and swat at it.
This is...like...classic story trope stuff, and exists IRL. I really don’t get why folks have such a problem with it.