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<blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 426283" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>May I make a small correction/addendum?</p><p></p><p>While it is true that the Animal Friendship spell is useless to the ranger, don't overlook the benefits of skill points placed in Animal Empathy and Animal Handling. A 4th level ranger with 10 CHA and AE5, AH7 gets +9 on his check to drain animals (and dire animals). A 4HD dire bat is DC24 to train or DC19 to rear from young. So a ranger could take 10 over a year to unfailing raise a Dire Bat which he can train to do specific tasks. (of course, your DM might not give you a year, but the chance is there).</p><p></p><p>A dire bear is 12HD, so DC27 to rear, or DC32 to train a wild one. A 15th level ranger could easily have AE5, AH18, get +20 on his roll and an excellent chance to train his own personal Dire Bear circus. If he has a decent CHA, AE9 and skill focus(animal handling) he should have little trouble training Tyrannosaurs to fight for him.</p><p></p><p>You are right that caster level makes animal friendship almost useless for rangers - but if the DM allows him time to put his skills to use, a high level ranger can use non-magic means to get some very powerful trained allies.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Plane Sailing, post: 426283, member: 114"] May I make a small correction/addendum? While it is true that the Animal Friendship spell is useless to the ranger, don't overlook the benefits of skill points placed in Animal Empathy and Animal Handling. A 4th level ranger with 10 CHA and AE5, AH7 gets +9 on his check to drain animals (and dire animals). A 4HD dire bat is DC24 to train or DC19 to rear from young. So a ranger could take 10 over a year to unfailing raise a Dire Bat which he can train to do specific tasks. (of course, your DM might not give you a year, but the chance is there). A dire bear is 12HD, so DC27 to rear, or DC32 to train a wild one. A 15th level ranger could easily have AE5, AH18, get +20 on his roll and an excellent chance to train his own personal Dire Bear circus. If he has a decent CHA, AE9 and skill focus(animal handling) he should have little trouble training Tyrannosaurs to fight for him. You are right that caster level makes animal friendship almost useless for rangers - but if the DM allows him time to put his skills to use, a high level ranger can use non-magic means to get some very powerful trained allies. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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