Animal Training Rules
Training Animals- an animal can be taught single word commands by spending 1/2 the cost of buying the animal and spending a weeks downtime in training. At the end of that week you roll a Morale Check for the animal and on a success (7+) the animal learns that word.
Teaching multiple words can allow them to be used in conjunction. Example "Search + Guard" Could be used to send a hound to find a lost companion and protect them.
Any animal that is injured or tasked with doing extraordinary things must make a morale check to obey a given order.
During Character creation a character may purchase a trained animal for 2x cost per command they know. This doubling compounds. A 2 word animal costs 4x as much as a 0 word animal. Trained Animals are rarely available for purchase later.
Different animals can learn different numbers of command words.
| Animal | Number of Command Words | Cost of Training |
|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 1 | 1 |
| Mule | 3 | 10 |
| Cow | 2 | 5 |
| Ox | 2 | 8 |
| Dog | 5 | 8 |
| Pigeon | 1 | 1 |
| Donkey | 4 | 4 |
| Goat | 3 | 2 |
| Pig | 4 | 2 |
| Hawk | 3 | 10 |
| Pony | 4 | 8 |
| Horse, Draught | 3 | 15 |
| Sheep | 2 | 1 |
| Horse, War | 4 | 100 |
| Songbird | 1 | 13 |
| Horse, Riding | 3 | 13 |
| Boar | 3 | 5 |
| Bear | 4 | 40 |
| Deer | 1 | 5 |
Fish and serpents are devious creatures and cannot be trained. Same with creatures that abhor the laws of nature.