in this game, if you have a Hunter in your party, you can resolve combat with animals using a "Hunt" skill challenge instead of a "Fight" challenge
The offensive stat in "Hunt" challenges is "Gathering"
To raise your "Gathering" stat, you equip gathering tools - baskets woven from straw, cane, or wicker
so it's like
*mutant wolf pack menaces villagers*
*villagers take out wicker baskets*
*wolves flee - but villagers are faster, chasing down the wolves screaming GET IN DA BASKIT !!!*
I just have this image of a medieval peasant riding a bicycle, running down a grizzly bear & scooping it up into the handlebar basket
the bear is just sitting in it waving its paws around uselessly, horrified, like ohh noooo this is too fast watchWGERE YOU'RE GOING AHHHH as the villager runs down three more wolves wumph! wumph! wumph!
@Lioness each animal stacked on top of the previous one in the basket like this constantly wobbling balancing tower of critters in this villager's bicycle racing down the country lanes with impunity
