Animal Friend and Versatile Performance

[gnrrrg]

Versatile Performances replace the bonus you would have in another skill with your bonus in the selected performance.

Animal Friend, in part, gives you a +4 bonus to Handle Animal for a chosen animal type.

If someone has Versatile Performance in a performance type that replaces Handle Animal and they also have Animal Friend would they keep the +4 bonus for that animal type or would it get replaced with the performance bonus?

RAW - Animal Friend adds a bonus, Versatile Performance replaces bonuses, you don't get the +4.

Common Sense - The +4 is a conditional bonus and not part of the regular Handle Animal bonus, Versatile Performance replaces your regular Handle Animal bonus and the +4 still gets added if the selected animal type is being handled.

Thoughts? Corrections? Ridicule?

[VRMH]

The whole Versatile Performance ability falls apart when common sense is applied - it's a cool idea that was given a poor execution.
Per the rules, you do not apply any of your bonuses to Handle Animal to the check, but instead use any bonus you have to the Perform skill.

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