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====== SURVIVAL ======

Wis

You can survive in and make your way safely through almost
any kind of place, follow trails and tracks, deal with wild
animals, and ride tamed ones.

Use the following base DCs for many of the listed tasks of the
Survival skill. These DCs may be adjusted by the GM to reflect
other circumstances.

^TASK^ DC^
|Endure severe weather| 15|
|Handle an animal| 10 + 1.5 × CR of animal|
|Live off the land| 10|
|Orienteering| 15|
|Predict weather| 15|
|Rear a wild animal| 15 + 1.5 × CR of animal|

===== Endure Severe Weather =====

You can use Survival to better withstand the effects of severe
weather. Typically, one check determines the success of your
efforts for a single day. If you succeed at the check, you gain
a +2 bonus to Fortitude saving throws against severe weather
while moving up to half your overland speed, or a +4 bonus
if you remain stationary and build a temporary shelter. You
can grant this bonus to one other creature for every 1 point by
which your result exceeds the DC. You can’t take 20 on Survival
checks to endure severe weather. But if you remain stationary and have full needed supplies and tools, you can take a 10.

===== Follow Tracks =====

You can use Survival to either find tracks or follow tracks you
have found for 1 mile or until they become difficult to follow,
whichever occurs first. Finding tracks requires a full action. If
you move at half your speed or less, you take no penalty to
your Survival check. You can move at your full speed with a –5
penalty to the check or at twice your normal speed with a –20
penalty to the check.

The base DCs for Survival checks to follow tracks depend
on the surface and are adjusted based on prevailing conditions
and the group being tracked; such modifiers are cumulative.
The GM may further adjust DCs to reflect other circumstances
such as the number of creatures being tracked, local gravity,
and weather conditions.

^SURFACE^ DC^
|Very soft ground (fresh snow, thick dust, wet mud)| 5|
|Soft ground (soft earth, drying mud)| 10|
|Firm ground (fields, woods, thick rugs, dirty or dusty floors)| 15|
|Hard ground (bare rock, most flooring)| 20|
CONDITION DC MODIFIER
|Multiple creatures in group being tracked| –1 per three creatures|
|Time since tracks were made| +1 per 24 hours|
|Moonlight| +3|
|Overcast or moonless night| +6|
|Tracked group hides trail| varies*|
*the hide tracks success by.


===== Hide Tracks =====
Finding tracks requires a full action. If
you move at half your speed or less, you take no penalty to
your Survival check. You can move at your full speed with a –5
penalty to the check or at twice your normal speed with a –20
penalty to the check.

The base DCs for Survival checks to follow tracks depend
on the surface and are adjusted based on prevailing conditions
and the group being tracked; such modifiers are cumulative.
The GM may further adjust DCs to reflect other circumstances
such as the number of creatures being hidden, local gravity,
and weather conditions.

^SURFACE^ DC^
|Very soft ground (fresh snow, thick dust, wet mud)| 20|
|Soft ground (soft earth, drying mud)| 15|
|Firm ground (fields, woods, thick rugs, dirty or dusty floors)| 10|
|Hard ground (bare rock, most flooring)| 5|
CONDITION DC MODIFIER
|Multiple creatures in group being tracked|+1 per three creatures|
|Moonlight| +2|
|Overcast or moonless night| +4|


===== Handle an Animal =====

As a move action, you can use Survival to improve the attitude
of an animal with an Intelligence score of 1 or 2. This functions
just like a [[Diplomacy]] check to change a person’s initial attitude,
but it is not language-dependent. A typical domesticated animal
has a starting attitude of indifferent, while wild animals are
usually unfriendly.

===== Live Off the Land =====

You can use Survival to keep yourself and others fed in the
wild by hunting and foraging, enabling you to move up to
half your overland speed without needing food and water
supplies. Typically, one check determines the success of your
efforts for a single day. You can provide food and water for one
other character for every 2 points by which the result of your
check exceeds 10. In some cases, an environment may be so
inhospitable (such as an airless asteroid) that it is impossible

to live off the land. You can’t take 20 on Survival checks to live
off the land.

===== Orienteering =====

Once each hour while traveling through unfamiliar terrain and
each time you move close to a natural hazard such as quicksand
or patches of poisonous atmosphere, you can use Survival to
keep from getting lost or to notice or avoid the hazard.
===== Predict Weather =====

You can use Survival to predict the weather up to 24 hours
in advance. You must spend at least 1 minute observing the
surrounding area and its current weather patterns. You can
predict the weather an additional day in advance for every 5
points by which your result exceeds 15. You can’t take 20 on
Survival checks to predict weather.
===== Rear a Wild Animal =====

You can use Survival to raise a wild animal from infancy so that it
becomes domesticated. At the GM’s discretion, you might be able
to use this task to rear wild creatures other than animals. Rearing a
wild animal typically takes months or even years. If you succeed
at the check at the end of this time, the animal is domesticated
and has an initial attitude of friendly toward you. You can rear as
many as three animals of the same kind at one time.
===== Ride a Creature =====

You can use Survival to ride an animal or another beast as a
mount. The most typical actions while riding a creature don’t
require checks. As a move action, you can either mount, ride
(using the mount’s speed instead of yours), or dismount from a
creature. Saddling a creature typically takes at least 1 minute,
but the process could take longer if you’re using an unusual
saddle or mount.

The following actions do require Survival checks.
^ACTION^ DC^
|Control mount in battle| 20|
|Cover| 15|
|Fast mount or dismount| 20|
|Fight with a combat-trained mount| 10|
|Guide with knees| 5|
|Leap| 15|
|Soft fall |15|
|Spur mount| 15|
|Stay mounted| 5|


==== Control Mount in Battle ====


You can attempt to control a mount not normally trained for
combat while in battle. This is part of whatever action you
are attempting to have the mount accomplish. If you fail the
check, you lose that action.
===== Cover =====


As a swift action, you can drop down and hang alongside
your mount, using it as cover. You can’t attack or cast spells
while using your mount as cover. If you fail the check, you
don’t gain the benefit of cover, and you can’t attack or cast
until you use a move action to pull yourself back up. Pulling
yourself back up doesn’t require a check.

==== Fast Mount or Dismount ====


You can attempt to mount or dismount from a creature as a
swift action instead of a move action.
===== Fight from a Combat-Trained Mount =====


When you direct a mount trained for combat into battle, you
must attempt a Survival check to ride as a swift action. If you
succeed at the check, you can still make your own attacks as
normal, along with any attacks the mount can make. If you
fail the check, either you or your mount can make attacks,
but not both.
==== Guide with Knees ====


As part of a move action to ride a creature, you can guide it
with your knees, keeping both of your hands free. If you fail
the check, you must use one hand to guide your mount.
==== Leap ====


As part of a move action, you can guide your mount to
leap over an obstacle. If you succeed at the check, the
mount must still succeed at an Athletics check to jump,
but it can use your ranks in Survival in place of its ranks
in Athletics, if that number is greater. If you fail the initial
Survival check, you fall off the mount when it leaps and
take the appropriate falling damage or 1d6 falling damage,
whichever is greater.
==== Soft Fall ====


As a reaction, you can reduce the damage you take from a fall
off your mount. With a successful check, you
reduce the damage you take form the fall by 1d6.
==== Spur Mount ====


As a move action, you can attempt to spur your mount to
greater speeds. If you succeed at the check, the mount’s
speed increases by 5 feet for that move action, but the mount
takes 1d3 damage whether or not the check succeeds or fails.
You can use this ability as often as you want, but if you fail
the check by 5 or more, the mount becomes fatigued. You
cannot spur a fatigued mount.

==== Stay Mounted ====


As a reaction, you can try to avoid falling off your mount
when your mount rears or bolts unexpectedly, or when you
take damage.

The base DCs for Survival checks to ride a creature depend on
the attempted action and apply to riding the most common types
of creatures and animals. At the GM’s discretion, dangerous or
exotic beasts or those ill-suited for use as mounts can increase
the DC of Survival checks to ride them by anywhere from 2 to
10. If you ride a creature bareback, you take a –5 penalty to
Survival checks to ride or control that mount.


===== Avoid danger =====
You can use avoid danger to avoid dangers from the environment. You can specialize by type of environment. Basically the skill to "not do stupid stuff" in different environments.


==== Space ====
This is the skill to act safely in space, including using space suits, airlocks and similar systems safely.

You can also use suitable professional skills for these checks. That is professions like Spacer, space ship captain, space ship engineer and so on.

Typical DCs
^Thing^ DC^
|Put on a spacesuit correctly|5|
|Operate most spaceship safety systems|5|
|Remember tethering|5|
^Modifiers^DC mod^
|Hurried/distracted|+5|
|Combat|+5|
|Actively hostile*|+5|
|Actual sabotage§|+10|
|Being distracted by something like using a technical device|+5|
*Someone has hidden labels, disconnected things that are normally connected and similar.\\
§Someone has successfully used the disable equipment for engineering or electronics and it is not fixed before this attempt.

You cannot take 20 for most things, though if you have a check list and spend the extra time to follow it and check multiple times, you can. 

You can take a 10 on the check if you are unhurried, unstressed and follow a checklist(like routine suiting up before going to work outside a ship).

==== Open spaces ====
This includes open spaces like plains, moors, deserts and similar.

Includes avoiding any dangers in such, as example flash floods, tornadoes, stampeding animals and things like building fire breaks to survive fires.

Typical DCs
^Thing^DC^
|Avoid stampede|5+CR*1.5|
|extra creatures|+CR*1.5 for each doubling of creature numbers|
|Avoid flash flood areas|5|
|Avoid active flash flood when need to go to a flash flood area|15|
|Build a firebreak|10|
|Being distracted by something like using a technical device|+5|

==== Forests/jungles ====
This includes places with heavy vegetation like forests and jungles. 

Includes avoiding any dangers in such, as example quick sand pits, poisonous plants, barbs and so on.

Typical DCs
^Thing^DC^
|Notice forest fire in time to not be endangered|10|
|Notice quick sand pit|10|
|Avoid thorns and poisonous plants|5|
|Being distracted by something like using a technical device|+5|

==== Urban ====
This includes any built up areas.

This includes things like avoiding dangerous locations, not being overrun by vehicles and such.

Typical DCs
^Thing^DC^
|Avoid gang territory of known gang|0|
|Avoid gang territory of known unknown gang|10|
|Not being overrun by a vehicle when obeying the traffic rules|0|
|Taking minor risks like walking/driving against red light|+5|
|Taking major risks like running through traffic|+10|
|Being distracted by something like using a technical device|+5|

==== Mountains ====
This includes things like mountains and similar places.

Includes avoiding any dangers in such, as example avalanches, flash floods, crevices and so on.

Typical DCs
^Thing^DC^
|Avoid avalanche or flash flood possible area|5|
|Avoid avalanche or flash flood|15|
|Being distracted by something like using a technical device|+5|

===== Consruct and set traps =====
You can use survival to set simple traps like bear trap or to construct simple snares, pit traps and similar. The DC to find such is the opposed check to the survival check to hide modified by the circumstances.
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