Survival

Tiered Action — Wisdom

The Survival skill allows characters to operate and survive in the wilderness.

Specific Uses

Sustenance

This action is used to gather food and supplies and find shelter.

Action DC Time Taken Collect food for 1 character for a day 15 2 hours - For 2 characters 18 2.5 hours - For 3 characters 20 3 hours - For 4 characters 25 3.5 hours Create shelter from mild elements (light rain) 15 1 hour - light elements (abnormal temperatures) 18 1.5 hours - medium elements (rain) 25 2.5 hours - heavy elements (torrential rain, blizzard) 30 3.5 hours

Starting a Fire Action DC Start a fire 15 Dry wood readily available -2 Rained recently +2 Currently raining +4 Torrential rain +6 No proper tools +4

Find/Create Potable Water Location DC Forest 15 Plains/Grassland 20 Scrub Desert 25 Sandy Desert 30 At Sea 35 Recently Rained -10

For every 5 points that a character exceeds the DC, the time is cut by a quarter. Obviously some conditions, such as a large freshwater river or the presence of snow will make a check to find water unnecessary.

Navigation

DC Mods

Situation	DC mod
Dense terrain (jungle)	+ 5
Rough terrain (mountains)	+ 5

This action is used to move through wilderness.

If a character's check to determine direction of travel fail by more than 5, the character selects the wrong direction and becomes lost. Every hour, the character may make a DC 25 survival check to realize that he is lost, allowing him to reassess his direction

Action	DC
Determine Direction of travel	20
Move at 1/4 Overland Speed	15
- 1/2 overland speed	20
- 3/4 overland speed	25
- full overland speed	30

Tracking

Track Check Modifier

Situation	Check Mod
Terrain is soft (mud, snow)	+5
-- Terrain is spongy (moss, leaves))	--
-- Terrain is firm (dirt, grass)	-5
-- Terrain is hard (rock, wood)	-10
Every day since the trail was made	-2
-- Every hour of rain	-2
-- Every hour of snow	-5
Every additional character beyond 1	+1
-- Every horse/pack animal in the group	+2
-- Characters hide their tracks	-5

This action is used for tracking characters or groups of characters. The tracker rolls a Survival Check, applies the modifiers to the right, and compares the resulting value to the table below to determine how much information the tracker learns of his quarry.

A character can only move at one-half his overland speed while tracking.

Result	Knowledge Gained
20	Direction of travel
25	Within 1d4 of the number of characters in the group
30	The actions of the characters with their movement
35	Whether or not any of the characters are injured

Skill Tiers

This skill starts out at tier zero. The upgrade cost of skill tiers is (4 + (current tier x 2)).

Tier Two

A character with Tier Two Survival can track at up to his full overland speed.