Nature

Key facts

Characteristic

Intuition

Overview

Nature is practical woodcraft and natural knowledge: finding water in dry country, telling an edible mushroom from a fatal one, reading a sky that means snow by nightfall, knowing which season brings the herds through this valley. It is an Intuition skill because it rewards attention to a living environment. It comes up on overland travel, while foraging, when the party must judge whether a forest is merely old or wrong, and whenever weather becomes an obstacle.

How it works

Characteristic: Intuition. Skill group: Intuition skills. Test: 2d10 + Intuition; 11 or lower is tier 1, 12 to 16 tier 2, 17 or higher tier 3. Training grants a benefit and unlocks attempts untrained heroes cannot make. How it is used: Tier 3 provides what the party needs plus a warning about what is coming. Tier 2 gets by with less margin. Tier 1 finds nothing, and a mistaken plant or misread sky can poison or strand the group. Edges and banes: Familiar terrain, a season you know, or a guide's notes grant an edge (+2). Alien landscapes, blighted or magically altered wilds, and searching in darkness or storm impose a bane (-2).

Tips and playstyle

Best for: Parties that travel overland and want the wilderness to be survivable rather than scenery. Character concepts: Laborer career forester, wilderness culture forager, a Fury who grew up outside the walls. Synergies: Terrain Lore for geography at map scale, Navigate for finding the route, Handle Animals for the creatures you meet along it, Alchemy for what the herbs become.

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