Animal Handler
Feat
sourcePHB
New in SW5eBrand-new SW5e option: you increase your Wisdom and gain Animal Handling proficiency, and you can spend a bonus action to direct a beast to take an action on its turn, or issue a command lasting a minute.✨
Gain Animal Handling proficiency or expertise, and bonus-action command a friendly beast within 60 feet.
SkillUtilityHalf-feat · +1 Wisdom
●○○value · half-feat, narrow niche
Best fora Wisdom character who works with animal companions or mounts
Skip ifyour campaign has few beasts or you have no animal companions
scoutskill-expert
skill-masterymobility
Pairs witha ranger or druid · beast companion builds · Wisdom investment
You master the techniques needed to train and handle animals. You gain the following benefits:
- Increase your Wisdom score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- You gain proficiency in the Animal Handling skill. If you are already proficient in it, you instead gain expertise in it.
- You can use a bonus action on your turn to command one friendly beast within 60 feet of you that can hear you and that isn't currently following the command of someone else. You decide now what action the beast will take and where it will move during its next turn, or you issue a general command that lasts for 1 minute, such as to guard a particular area.