Trying to build a few level 1 animal trainers for my caravan, to train our critters new tricks, and manage the mounts. Looking for ideas of builds and items, any race.
Ratfolk hunter with 18 Charisma, Animal Affinity feat and Beast Bond trait gets a base 11 with +4 when handling rodents and an additional +4 for handling their animal companion, which can be a giant rat for a total of 19. There’s a specific riding rat companion animal in the monster codex that fits nicely.
Ratfolk hunter with 18 Charisma, Animal Affinity feat and Beast Bond trait gets a base 11 with +4 when handling rodents and an additional +4 for handling their animal companion, which can be a giant rat for a total of 19. There’s a specific riding rat companion animal in the monster codex that fits nicely.
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I know this reply is a tad late but I'm bored and it might help someone else down the line.
Using more common races here are some decent numbers but I'm sure you can squeeze out more with uncommon races.
Halfling with the outrider alternate racial trait, Animal Whisperer campaign trait, Skill Focus: Handle Animal, and a class with Handle Animal on it's skill list can have a general +10 before ability score modifiers (which can take you to +15 at 1st level). This is before adding the +4 bonus from your Link to an animal companion.
Some more niche methods exist for higher bonuses, depending on what you want.
A half orc with the Beastmaster alternate racial trait, Animal Rustler, and Horse Lord, using a horse as his mount and Skill Focus at level 1, can have a +24 to their handle animal once per day for their Companion, or a +20 all the time for horses, or a +18 for everything. Otherwise they can have a +14 to handle animal for anything at 1st level. This assumes 20 starting charisma and 18 starting strength (and likely many dumped stats).
All of the NPC's should be able to afford training harnesses (10gp) at 1st level for a +2 bonus, and training whips can add an additional +2 to checks. A cracked pink and green sphere is 200 gold and they can select the +1 bonus to apply to handle animal.
Therefor, you can have, using NPC wealth, a +17/18 Handle Animal for all animals with up to an additional +12 depending on whether you are a half orc, pushing the animal or not, if it is or isn't a horse, and if it is your animal companion or not.
+29 sounds pretty reliable at first level (and a bunch of others) to me. :D