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kjenks 06-15-07, 12:23 AM	The Handle Animal skill describes 15 tricks in the Player’s Handbook. The LGCS grants Open access to tricks from other source books as well. The LG Open Trick List lets you see all of these tricks in one place: http://members.aol.com/kenjenks/lg/
Prof. Pacali 06-15-07, 10:31 AM	Thanks Ken, although I noticed that there is a mistake in the Hold trick, you just retyped the Assist Track trick (Hold lets the animal grapple an enemy).
kjenks 06-15-07, 12:23 PM	Thanks. I'll fix that tonight.
trollbill 06-15-07, 12:43 PM	Gee, Ken, by the time you are done with all these lists we won't need a Rules Compendium. :D
haferka 06-16-07, 01:45 AM	Is there a trick that would allow an animal to "attack" with a tanglefoot bag... like a bird droping it on target?
kjenks 06-16-07, 08:17 AM	Kind of: DC 25 “Push” an Animal: To push an animal means to get it to perform a task or trick that it doesn’t know but is physically capable of performing. This category also covers making an animal perform a forced march or forcing it to hustle for more than 1 hour between sleep cycles. If the animal is wounded or has taken any nonlethal damage or ability score damage, the DC increases by 2. If your check succeeds, the animal performs the task or trick on its next action. ... Action: Varies. Handling an animal is a move action, while pushing an animal is a full-round action. (A druid or ranger can handle her animal companion as a free action or push it as a move action.) ... So your DM might decided that dropping the bag on an enemy is a task your bird "is physically capable of performing." Remember that a bird can only fly with a light load, and a tanglefoot bag weighs in at 4 lbs. A bird is a quadruped (by the Monster Manual definition), so computing its carrying capacity follows this rule: SRD === Quadrupeds can carry heavier loads than characters can. Instead of the multipliers given above, multiply the value corresponding to the creature’s Strength score from Table: Carrying Capacity by the appropriate modifier, as follows: Fine x1/4, Diminutive x1/2, Tiny x3/4, Small x1, Medium x1-1/2, Large x3, Huge x6, Gargantuan x12, Colossal x24. === Then apply that multiplier to this table: Strength Score Light Load 1 3 lb. or less 2 6 lb. or less 3 10 lb. or less 4 13 lb. or less 5 16 lb. or less 6 20 lb. or less 7 23 lb. or less 8 26 lb. or less 9 30 lb. or less 10 33 lb. or less So an eagle is small, Str 10. Its light load is 33 lb. x1 = 33 lb. And a hawk is tiny, Str 6. Its light load is 20 lb. x3/4 = 15 lb. If you have a raven familiar, it's too weak to lift a tanglefoot bag, but it's not really an animal so you don't need to Handle Animal to control it. Man, those eagles are strong! Now what's the minimum weight of a halfling or gnome druid and a exotic saddle.... Heh, heh, heh. A halfling female can weigh as little as 27 lb. With minimal gear (no saddle), she can fly on her eagle animal companion at level 1! Aerial sling bombardment!
berpo 06-19-07, 02:15 PM	The LG Open Trick List lets you see all of these tricks in one place: http://members.aol.com/kenjenks/lg/ That's bad your web site does'nt exist anymore.
haferka 06-19-07, 02:17 PM	works for me.
Swiftbrook 06-19-07, 10:32 PM	That's bad your web site does'nt exist anymore. Type the link or copy and paste it. WotC boards stick in some stuff and it didn't work for me either. Typing did. -Swiftbrook