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Sense Direction

Skill Actions · Survival

Skill Survival
Cost None
  • Exploration
  • Secret

Using the stars, the sun, the land and its plants, or how animals behave, you keep your bearings in the wild. You usually roll Survival once a day, though some places or changes may call for more. The GM sets the DC and how long it takes (usually about a minute); unusual or unfamiliar places may need a minimum number of Ranks. Without a compass you have 1 level of Disadvantage.

Critical Success: You know exactly where you are; where there are compass directions, you know them exactly.

Success: You keep enough of your bearings not to get hopelessly lost; where there are compass directions, you have a sense of them.

Results

Critical Success

You know exactly where you are; where there are compass directions, you know them exactly.

Success

You keep enough of your bearings not to get hopelessly lost; where there are compass directions, you have a sense of them.