Skills/Survival

You are skilled at surviving in the wild and at navigating in the wilderness; also following trails and tracks left by others. Survival is also the determining factor of your ability to endure harsh environments and avoid exhaustion. Survival is a representation of both your primal hunting instinct and raw endurance in times of stress.

Several modifiers may apply to the Survival check, as given on Table: Survival DC Modifiers.

Avoid Getting Lost/Avoid Natural Hazards
You can use the Survival skill to avoid getting lost or avoid natural hazards and you make a Survival check whenever the situation calls for one.

Retry? To avoid getting lost or avoid natural hazards, you make a Survival check whenever the situation calls for one. Retries to avoid getting lost in a specific situation or to avoid a specific natural hazard are not allowed. For finding tracks, you can retry a failed check after 1 hour (outdoors) or 10 minutes (indoors) of searching.

Follow Tracks
To find tracks or to follow them for 1 mile requires a successful Survival check. You must make another Survival check every time the tracks become difficult to follow. If you are not trained in this skill, you can make untrained checks to find tracks, but you can follow them only if the DC for the task is 10 or lower. Alternatively, you can use the Perception skill to find a footprint or similar sign of a creature’s passage using the same DCs, but you can’t use Perception to follow tracks, even if someone else has already found them.

You move at half your normal speed while following tracks (or at your normal speed with a –5 penalty on the check, or at up to twice your normal speed with a –20 penalty on the check). The DC depends on the surface and the prevailing conditions, as given on table.

Action A Survival check made to find tracks is at least a full-round action, and it may take even longer.

Retry? For finding tracks, you can retry a failed check after 1 hour (outdoors) or 10 minutes (indoors) of searching.

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.

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.

Action Varies. A single Survival check may represent activity over the course of hours or a full day.

Retry? For getting along in the wild or for gaining the Fortitude save bonus noted in Table: Survival DCs by Task, you make a Survival check once every 24 hours. The result of that check applies until the next check is made.

Modifiers
Training If you are trained in Survival, you can automatically determine where true north lies in relation to yourself.