Tracking

Make a Tracking check to find a trail in the wilderness or follow a criminal fleeing through a forest. A successful skill check can also conceal your own tracks in the wilderness, making it more difficult for pursuers to follow you.

Check: COU/INT/AGI
Applications: Animal Tracks, Conceal Tracks, Humanoid Tracks
Encumbrance: yes
Quality: perceive more details on the trail.
Failed Check: the hero cannot find a trail or doesn’t learn anything new.
Critical Success: as long as a trail hasn’t been completely destroyed, the hero can follow it to its end and receive more information than usual, spotting deceptions (such as covered-up tracks) at once.
Botch: the hero mistakes the tracks and follows the wrong trail, perhaps meeting a dangerous creature or finding the wrong people.
Improvement Cost: C

• Find fresh footprints in the snow +5
• Identify bear tracks +3
• Follow a human’s trail through the forest +1
• Figure out the age of the tracks +/- 0
• Identify signs of a battle from three days ago -1
• Figure out the exact type and weight of an animal -3
• Follow a trail blurred by the rain -5
• Hide your trail — Competitive check [Tracking (Hide Trail) against Tracking (Humanoid Tracks)]