Animal Rending (Proficiency)

This proficiency confers expertise in skinning and butchering animal carcasses. It lets a character derive the maximum amount of food from a carcass (see Table 33 in the hunting proficiency entry). It also lets him harvest valuable products from the carcass without damaging them. Such products typically include furs, horns, teeth, hides, and organs. (See the appendix for more about animal products. Use of this proficiency requires access to the necessary tools.
No proficiency checks are necessary to butcher most animals, but the DM may require checks in unusual situations. For instance, a check may be required to butcher an animal the character has never seen before, or to successfully harvest a delicate body part (say, the eye of an immature beholder). If the check fails, the character is only able to obtain an average amount of food (the number to the left of the slash on Table 33), or he damages the body pat he was attempting to harvest.
 Table 33: Rations Produced Per Animal
Size of gameanimal	Number of rations*
S 	1-2/2-3
M 	3-4/4-6
L 	5-8/-12
H 	9-15/15-25
* A ration is the food necessary to feed an average adult for one day. The figures to the left of the slash indicate the number of rations obtained when a character of average skill handles the butchering. The figure to the right show the number of rations obtained by a character with the animal rending proficiency (see below).
Crossover Group:: Warrior.
Category:The Complete Barbarian's Handbook Proficiencies