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Offline Mooncrow

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The Handle Animal Guide - Discussion Thread
« on: December 09, 2011, 09:47:16 AM »
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=1300

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Re: The Handle Animal Guide - Discussion Thread
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2011, 10:46:27 PM »
One suggestion I would make, is for groups of trained animals: if you want them to learn to attack (or other trick) both as a group and  individually, each should be a separate trick, one for group, a second for individual.

Animals shouldn't ever regard command words used in ordinary conversation as actual commands.  Tone and inflection have a huge impact on the sound, and commands are practically never given in a conversational tone, plus hand gestures often accompany many commands, and if that is missing, the animal will not recognize the command.

Edit: The razor boar is in the back of MM2 because it was taken from a 3rd party book (with permission), and is therefore not actually property of WotC.  And, the 3.5 update changed it to a magical beast.
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Re: The Handle Animal Guide - Discussion Thread
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2012, 09:09:00 PM »
The Corollax is from Monster Manual II (not MMI) starting on page 50, not 51.\

I'd also like a like at the top of the guide to this discussion thread.

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Re: The Handle Animal Guide - Discussion Thread
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2012, 03:13:39 AM »
This seems like a full list of tricks.  You mentioned Warn, but I don't know where that's from.