Animal Companion Skills: Survival not a Class Skill?


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While working on adding Animal Companions to my PFRPG product, I noticed, on page 53, that the Survival skill was not tagged as a Class Skill for the animals...

This is a bit surprising, and I was wondering if this was an Error or if it was intended.

RiTz21
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No animal has ever had a survival modifier listed in its stat block, at least that I can recal.

Yea, no kidding. I think we're supposed to assume that animals don't use the same rules as humans for getting along in the wild.


Hydro wrote:

No animal has ever had a survival modifier listed in its stat block, at least that I can recal.

Yea, no kidding. I think we're supposed to assume that animals don't use the same rules as humans for getting along in the wild.

Oh... my bad - most likely it is assumed that an animal would always 'manage' in the wilds and not even require a survival check! (well, pending a serious food shortage)

Thanks!

RiTz21


RiTz21 wrote:

While working on adding Animal Companions to my PFRPG product, I noticed, on page 53, that the Survival skill was not tagged as a Class Skill for the animals...

This is a bit surprising, and I was wondering if this was an Error or if it was intended.

That's funny, it's in the PRD:

"Animal Skills
Animal companions can have ranks in any of the following skills: Acrobatics* (Dex), Climb* (Str), Escape Artist (Dex), Fly* (Dex), Intimidate (Cha), Perception* (Wis), Stealth* (Dex), Survival (Wis), and Swim* (Str). "

Hydro wrote:
No animal has ever had a survival modifier listed in its stat block, at least that I can recal.

Animals with the Track feat usually had Survival in 3.5. For instance, dogs.

Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

I think the PDF has a problem that the hard copy book doesn't in the AC section. Weapon finesse isn't listed as an Animal Feat in the PDF, even though it shows up in the hard copy.

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