Wild Empathy (Ex)
A druid can improve the attitude of an animal. This ability functions just like a Diplomacy check made to improve the attitude of a person (see Chapter 4). The druid rolls 1d20 and adds her druid level and her Charisma modifier to determine the wild empathy check result. The typical domestic animal has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are usually unfriendly.
Table 3–7: Druid Base Attack Fort Ref Will Spells per Day Level Bonus Save Save Save Special 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 1st +0 +2 +0 +2 Nature bond, nature sense, — — — — — — — — orisons, wild empathy 2nd +1 +3 +0 +3 Woodland stride — — — — — — — — 3rd +2 +3 +1 +3 Trackless step — — — — — — — 4th +3 +4 +1 +4 Resist nature’s lure, — — — — — — — Wild shape (1/day) 5th +3 +4 +1 +4 — — — — — — 6th +4 +5 +2 +5 Wild shape (2/day) — — — — — — 7th +5 +5 +2 +5 — — — — — 8th +6/+1 +6 +2 +6 Wild shape (3/day) — — — — — 9th +6/+1 +6 +3 +6 Venom immunity — — — — 10th +7/+2 +7 +3 +7 Wild shape (4/day) — — — — 11th +8/+3 +7 +3 +7 — — — 12th +9/+4 +8 +4 +8 Wild shape (5/day) — — — 13th +9/+4 +8 +4 +8 A thousand faces — — 14th +10/+5 +9 +4 +9 Wild shape (6/day) — — 15th +11/+6/+1 +9 +5 +9 Timeless body — 16th +12/+7/+2 +10 +5 +10 Wild shape (7/day) — 17th +12/+7/+2 +10 +5 +10 18th +13/+8/+3 +11 +6 +11 Wild shape (8/day) 19th +14/+9/+4 +11 +6 +11 20th +15/+10/+5 +12 +6 +12 Wild shape (at will) To use wild empathy, the druid and the animal must be within 30 feet of one another under normal conditions. Generally, influencing an animal in this way takes 1 minute but, as with influencing people, it might take more or less time.
A druid can also use this ability to influence a magical beast with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2, but she takes a –4 penalty on the check.
Replaced or modified by archetypes
- Vermin Empathy (Blight Druid)
- Peacekeeper (Halcyon Druid)
- Green Empathy (Leshy Warden)