Skills/Survival

Survival is the representation of your ability to survive in the wild, navigate the wilderness, follow tracks, and endure against harsh environments. Survival is a representation of both your primal hunting instinct and raw endurance in times of stress.

Avoid Getting Lost/Avoid Natural Hazards
You may make a DC 15 survival check to avoid getting lost or avoid a natural hazard such as quicksand.

Retry? You cannot retry a survival check to avoid getting lost or avoid a natural hazard.

Follow Tracks
When searching or following tracks you must make a successful survival check. A single survival check allows following of tracks for one mile, with additional checks needed for each subsequent mile, or when the conditions to continue following the tracks change.

You travel at half speed when following tracks, though may move at normal speed at a -5 penalty to the check.

Action:  A Survival check made to find tracks and begin to follow them is at least a full-round action. Time to follow them thereafter is determined by your travelling speed, and how far away the source of the tracks are.

Retry? If you fail to find or follow tracks you may try again after searching for one hour when outdoors; for indoors locations you only need to spend 10 minutes searching to try again.

Tracking Modifiers
Survival has various modifiers used when tracking a creature based on the surface and the condition to determine base DC and modifiers.

Base DC: When tracking a group of creatures, for every 3 creatures in the group, reduce the DC of the survival check by 1 as their presence becomes more noticeable.

For every 24 hours that have passed since the creature left the trail behind has passed the DC increases by an additional 1, with rain increasing the DC by 1 for each hour that has passed that the trail was exposed to rain. Fresh snow makes a trail far harder to notice adding a +10 if the trail was made before or during snowfall.

The size of the creature modifies the ease of tracking a creature:


 * Fine: +8
 * Diminutive: +4
 * Tiny: +2
 * Small: +1
 * Medium: +0
 * Large: -1
 * Huge: -2
 * Gargantuan: -4
 * Colossal: -8

Creatures may attempt to hide the tracks, raising the DC to track them by 5, but requires them to move at half speed.

Survive in the Wilderness
You can keep yourself and others safe and fed in the wild. See Table: Survival DCs by Task for DCs for various tasks that require Survival checks. Action Survival represents an activity, usually over the course of hours or an entire day.

Retry? No, you cannot retry a failed survival for that day, but may try again the next day.

Tough It Out
Some actions such as running, forced marches, or weather conditions may require a survival check to continue going without taking penalties or becoming fatigued/exhausted. See the environment rules for hot weather, starvation for details on the survival DCs in these environments.

Action Survival represents an activity, usually over the course of hours or an entire day. Retry? No, you cannot retry a failed survival check for running, forced march, or weather condition.