Survival (WIS)

You are skilled at surviving in the wild and at navigating in the wilderness. You also excel at following trails and tracks left by others.

You can use the Survival skill to navigate through terrain, to avoid getting lost and to avoid natural hazards. To do so, you must simply make a Survival check whenever the GM calls for one.

To find tracks or to follow them for 1 mile requires a successful Survival check. You must make another Survival check every time the tracks become difficult to follow. Alternatively, you can use the Perception skill to find a footprint or similar sign of a creature’s passage using the same DCs, but you can’t use Perception to follow tracks, even if someone else has already found them.

You move at half your normal speed while following tracks (or at your normal speed with a –5 penalty on the check, or at up to twice your normal speed with a –20 penalty on the check). The DC depends on the surface and the prevailing conditions, as given on table.