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[BlitzDungeoneer]

The bosses aren't really animals though they were all at least semi humanoid or far to intelligent. As for taming normal animals, that would require a skill to accomplish but I can think of a way to make it work pretty easily just using systems from other games to see how they balanced it.

Hahahahahha! You're trying to use logic from other games... heh.
Now that jerkass mode is over;
That's what it's like in other games. That does not necessarily mean the same thing applies here.

[Unholy_Pariah]

Spoiler: Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Edward Hemming
Gender: male                             
Race: Human
Class: knight
Username: Galvus
Appearance: Tall white guy with longish unkempt brown hair.
Appearance (in-game): six and a half foot tall athetic looking white guy with longish brown hair and brown eyes.
Biography: In the real world Edward was a well known but not highly ranking figure in the MMO gaming world, while knowleadgeable and skilled in most of the games he played he never stayed focused enough on one game to become a truly prominant figure and was always looking for the next even more immersive game.

In reality Edward is an adequate electrician who runs a small arcade with a few friends, seeing the possible profit potential he and his friends bought a few VR sets and set them up in a back room and were planning to rent them as MMORPG hotspots or local area multiplayer platfirms and make a few simple arcade style fighting or co-op shooter games to get interest up before bringing in more equipment. Unfortunately as Edward was testing one of the sets on a newly released game prior to opening the store he discovered a distinct lack of functionality on his logout features.

Starting Inventory: Broadsword, embossed knights shield, platemail armor.
Stats
STR: 13
SPD: 10
DEX: 7
CON: 15
LCK: 5
Skills
1. Swords
2. Shields
3. Blacksmithing
4. Engineering
5. Mining
6. Spears/polearms
7. Battle healing/regeneration
8. Taunting/threat generation
9. Trapping
10. Block
50 points.

Are block and heavy armor skills?

Corrected battle healing and armor, swapped heavy armor for trapping.

Im gonna sell so many pets to our animal tamers.

[PewdsRocks]

Well thats not what it's like in other games. In other games it's a case of beat the animal to the verge of death then it does as it's told.

Hence why I used your idea for how recruitment of people will work in this game and just altered it to fit for animals instead. It's the only reasonable solution I could think of to enable it to work within this setting given that charisma does not exist as a stat in this and is instead controlled entirely by your own actions.
In an RTD they would normally use charisma roles for it and I don't see why your alternative charisma method couldn't be adapted to fit the taming of animals and I know from personal experience with my own pets that your behavior and emotions have a large impact on the animals behavior.

Treat it well and don't show it fear and in time it'll bond with you if you don't get it killed first. I know that works in the cases of large spiders, snakes and dogs at the very least including 1 dog that was used as a guard dog and so was particularly violent when we first got it.
For the purposes of a game it'd fit well enough for other animals you'd just have to determine how it would work with each kind of animal based on the animal.

[WillowLuman]

You know, the Real Person backstory is probably more important. We'll be playing as them, after all. Anyone's character who, in this life and death situation, goes on about "my people don't get along with elves" is a SERIOUSLY hardcore RPer.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name:   Joe Farsey                                             Age: 23
Gender: male                                                     Race: Human
Class: Metal Bard                                                Username: xxXORZxx
Appearance: An unkempt, lanky young man with long, black hair and patchily shaven stubble. His eyes are green and often unfocused. Muscled as yard work and minimum-wage hauling would make him, rather than actually working out. 
Appearance (in-game): The game defaulted to "scan body" when he failed to navigate the character appearance menu.
Biography: Joe was a lower-middle-class stoner from Oregon whose sole drive was to make it in the Grunge scene. He became a talented guitarist but his basement band could never get any attention or much money, and for 3 years never moved beyond making covers. One night, on a particularly drunken bender, he received a vision from the ghost of his uncle, a mildly successful country musician, telling him to put aside Grunge and embrace the true path of Metal. This may have had something to due with "new stuff" he and his bandmates had decided to try shortly after drinking. Next thing Joe knew, he was regaining consciousness in strange surroundings with the mother of all hangovers...

Starting Inventory:
1x Axe, of the rockin' variety
1x Ludicrously studded jacket
1x Steel-toed boots
Stats
STR:10
SPD:5
DEX:15
CON:15
LCK:5
Skills
1. Heavy Metal
2. Busking
3. Costuming
4. Misc. Weapon User
5. Substance Tolerance
6. Drinking
7. Jamming (improvising with another musician)
8. Stage Construction
9. Pyrotechnics
10.Dramatic Lighting

Does every bard ability need its own skill slot? Like, "The one that does this buff," "the one that does that debuff"?

Updated skill list, also merged singing with Heavy Metal.

[Unholy_Pariah]

If i catch a large enough animal and have someone tame it can i use it as both a pet and a mount?

[BlitzDungeoneer]

If i catch a large enough animal and have someone tame it can i use it as both a pet and a mount?

Yes.

You know, the Real Person backstory is probably more important. We'll be playing as them, after all. Anyone's character who, in this life and death situation, goes on about "my people don't get along with elves" is a SERIOUSLY hardcore RPer.

Spoiler: Character (click to show/hide)

Name:   Joe Farsey                                             Age: 23
Gender: male                                                     Race: Human
Class: Metal Bard                                                Username: xxXORZxx
Appearance: An unkempt, lanky young man with long, black hair and patchily shaven stubble. His eyes are green and often unfocused. Muscled as yard work and minimum-wage hauling would make him, rather than actually working out. 
Appearance (in-game): The game defaulted to "scan body" when he failed to navigate the character appearance menu.
Biography: Joe was a lower-middle-class stoner from Oregon whose sole drive was to make it in the Grunge scene. He became a talented guitarist but his basement band could never get any attention or much money, and for 3 years never moved beyond making covers. One night, on a particularly drunken bender, he received a vision from the ghost of his uncle, a mildly successful country musician, telling him to put aside Grunge and embrace the true path of Metal. This may have had something to due with "new stuff" he and his bandmates had decided to try shortly after drinking. Next thing Joe knew, he was regaining consciousness in strange surroundings with the mother of all hangovers...

Starting Inventory:
1x Axe, of the rockin' variety
1x Ludicrously studded jacket
1x Steel-toed boots
Stats
STR:10
SPD:5
DEX:15
CON:15
LCK:5
Skills
1. Heavy Metal
2. Busking
3. Costuming
4. Misc. Weapon User
5. Substance Tolerance
6. Drinking
7. Jamming (improvising with another musician)
8. Stage Construction
9. Pyrotechnics
10.Dramatic Lighting

Does every bard ability need its own skill slot? Like, "The one that does this buff," "the one that does that debuff"?

Updated skill list, also merged singing with Heavy Metal.

What is Busking?

Also, I probably won't be able to post in a while, cause thunderstorm.

[PewdsRocks]

Hmm now to ditch a skill to replace with Animal Taming.

[StupidElves]

Heavy Feet would either increase friction, or just used to keep feet firmly planted into the ground.

[PewdsRocks]

Is that really a skill? All your doing is lowering your center of gravity and digging your feet in.

[WillowLuman]

Busking: playing for money, on the street. "Pass the hat/basket" sort of thing.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Busking: playing for money, on the street. "Pass the hat/basket" sort of thing.

I'm not sure I understand.

Heavy Feet would either increase friction, or just used to keep feet firmly planted into the ground.

I don't think that qualifies as a skill. What with the whole 'this is something that is an RL skill' and whatnot.

[WillowLuman]

Spoiler: busking (click to show/hide)

[Lyeos]

Basically, he'd be able to put on a performance out in the street and get money for it. Think Fable 3's Lute minigame.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

That's not really a skill, since it is determined by whether people like your music and/or pity you enough to give you money.

[WillowLuman]

It's as much a skill as as haggling

Though I suppose you could say it's covered by "Heavy Metal."