Survival

Survival encompasses all the important skills you need to survive in the wilderness that are not explicitly covered by other Nature Skills. These include how to find a suitable place to camp, prepare and build a sleeping place, and gather firewood to make a fire. You can also use Survival to try to predict the weather for the next few hours or days, to potentially avoid a deluge or sandstorm.

Check: COU/AGI/CON
Applications: Build Campsite, Find Campsite, Make Fire
New Application: Predict Weather (see page 218)
Encumbrance: yes
Tools: survival gear, maybe a tent
Quality: the hero doesn’t need as much time to find or build a campsite.
Failed Check: the hero chooses a poor campsite. Regeneration Phases suffer a penalty of -1.
Critical Success: the hero finds a great resting place! Increase regeneration by 1.
Botch: the campsite floods or swarms with vermin.
Improvement Cost: C

• Sleep in a meadow next to a village +5
• Find firewood in a forest +3
• Make fire +1
• Find a good campsite in the forest +/-0
• Will it rain tomorrow? -1
• Build a good campsite in a hostile environment -3
• Find firewood in Yeti-Land -5