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Success: Your character finds enough resources
to fulfill his needs for the day.
Exceptional Success: Your character man-
ages to find enough resources to fulfill his
needs so long as he wishes to stay in the
area. Perhaps he finds a stream of clear
water stocked with trout or happens on
a hunter’s cabin with a supply of canned
goods.
Foraging

Dice Pool: Wits + Survival + equipment
Action: Extended (five successes re-
quired; one roll represents one hour of search-
ing)
Foraging for food and water is an extended
action. Each roll represents an hour of diligent work.
Five successes are required to gather enough food and
water to sustain one person for a single day. One suc-
cess still provides some amount of food and water, but
fewer than five means that your character becomes
progressively malnourished and vulnerable to depri-
vation (p. 175) and disease (p. 176).

Roll Results
Dramatic Failure: Your character makes an in-
correct assumption regarding a food or water source,
collecting plants or unclean water that makes him ill.
Failure: Your character does not locate any sources
of food or water in an hour of careful
searching.
Success: Your character is
on his way to gathering suffi-
cient food to fulfill his needs
for the day (apply suc-
cesses to the total
needed).
Exceptional Success:
Your character finds a small
windfall of food or water that fulfills his
daily needs — and even provides some
sustenance for the following day.
Suggested Equipment: Survival
knife (+1), water purification tablets
(+1), field survival guide (+2), field sur-
vival kit (+3)
Possible Penalties: Arid locale (-2), fro-
zen locale (-2), foreign environment (-1 to -3),
lack of tools (-2)

Weaponry

Lydia’s books dropped to the pavement as the dark-
clothed man stepped from the bushes. Her hand tightened
on the haft of her umbrella. The man smiled, his teeth
gleaming white through the hole in his black ski mask. He
raised a long-bladed hunting knife. “I’m not going to hurt
you unless I have to, honey,” he whispered. “We’re

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