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===Rank 8 Uses===

====[[Tome of Prowess (3.5e Sourcebook)/Creature Handling#Whoa There|Whoa There]]====
A hungry, rabid animal is just as likely to see you as a meal or a target as something to be avoided. You know how to soothe hostile beasts and can delay them from attacking you. Delay is the key word here, as you can not hold an animal from attacking you if it has already started gnawing on your leg or if it has seen you hacking at its pack mate.</onlyinclude>

Using this ability is a standard action, allowing you to make an animal handling check against a DC of 12 + the highest of your opponents' CRs. If the creatures are being directed by an opponent who has the animal handling skill, they may replace this base DC with the results of their own check, though they must stick with the result even if it is lower than the base DC would otherwise be. Each subsequent check this encounter increases the DC by +2.

If you succeed on the check, they will not approach within 10 feet of you nor attack you for a time dependent on your check result. If you wish to delay them after that point, you must succeed on the opposed check again or give them some other reason not to attack, such that they change their mind on their own. Any obvious attempt at escape, as well as any obviously aggressive action by you or your allies, automatically ends this effect, leaving the creatures free to do as they like. 

'''Base DC:''' 12 + creature CR, +2 for each prior check this encounter<br>
'''Check Result:'''
*DC+10 and above: The creatures aren't really sure how to proceed with your group. They don't even try to encircle or glare at you. This effect lasts up to 4 rounds, as long as you don't take any offensive actions or attempt to flee. 
*DC+5 to DC+9: The creatures do not attack you this round or the next. They probably circle around you, growl at you, or just go attack something else, but they don’t take any offensive action against you or your non-participating allies this round or the next unless you attack them first or attempt to flee.
*DC+0 to DC+4: The creatures do not attack you this round. They may circle you or threaten you, but they don’t take any offensive action against you or your party unless you attack them first or attempt to flee.
*DC-1 and below: If their intent was to try to eat you or run you off of their territory, that is what the creatures do.<onlyinclude>