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Yep, I finally had a chance to really play WoD again.(So exhausted from self defense classes and work...)

Anyways! Tamer idea. I had said something about this a long time ago,(probably had a few say it while I was gone, I'm sure.) but animal lore really shouldn't calm while taming, and should probably just be called druidry.(One because people would know it was for Druid when they were new to WoD, and two every tamer wouldn't be so inclined to also be a druid or vice versa.) Drocket responded to this idea once before that taming needed a secondary skill to keep it balanced, so my idea is why not make a new one that effects taming directly, sort of like invoc for magery.

Could make the skill called animal training or handling, it would act sort of like animal lore does now when calming a creature while trying to tame, but it would also be added to the taming check. So say you want to tame that great dragon, you'd have to have 99 taming and 80+ training/handling. You could also use this skill to implement the whole dragon/animal breeding system as well as possibly coming up with a solution to pets going wild from not being fed.

You could then drop the tamed animal to a worthless level once it's been tamed, and allow the tamer to train their pet up like henchies in a way. You could even make it possible so that other animals could reach the usefulness of great dragons(as well as the level of control it takes to have them) to add a bit more diversity among tamers.

(Yes I still want to hunt with a panther or snow leopard. hehehe)