Navigate

Key facts

Characteristic

Intuition

Overview

Navigate is route-finding: choosing the pass that will still be open, keeping a bearing in fog, reading a chart made by someone who never saw the coast, knowing when the party has been walking in a circle for an hour. It is an Intuition skill because it is constant orientation against a changing world. It comes up on overland journeys, at sea, underground, and in any place where being lost costs supplies, time, or the element of surprise.

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 finds the fastest safe route and keeps to it. Tier 2 arrives, late or by a harder path. Tier 1 gets the party lost, burning a day of supplies or walking into trouble. Edges and banes: Maps, clear skies, landmarks, or a route you have walked before grant an edge (+2). Storms, featureless terrain, magical misdirection, and traveling by night impose a bane (-2).

Tips and playstyle

Best for: Any party that treats travel as part of the adventure rather than a cut scene. Character concepts: Laborer career caravan guide, nomadic culture pathfinder, a sailor who reads stars before charts. Synergies: Terrain Lore to know what the map means, Nature for weather and forage on the way, Ride and Drive for the vehicles that carry you along the route.

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