Navigation

Special Rules

You can use Navigation to reverse course when you are lost back to a point when you were not. The DC is dependent on how long you travelled. You cannot do this if you were prevented from paying attention to your surroundings during at least 10% of the duration of your travel or if you were magically transported or teleported.

Planar portals connect the world to each of its elemental components; the sky is the most obvious portal and connects up to the plane of air, the deepest depths of the ocean connect to the plane of water, and various other portals connect to more specific and varied locales. There are very few and often no signs of these connections.

Difficulty Modifiers

DC begins at 0, each of the following adds +5.

• Charting: The activity involves planning a route in advance, without being on the path itself.
• Group: The activity involves directing a large group of at least 8 walking people or 2 vehicles. Add twice if the group is at least 50 walking people or 10 vehicles.
• Hazardous: Natural hazards exist in the terrain being traversed.
• Mountainous: The activity involves crossing a mountain.
• Moving Terrain: The activity involves an area where the terrain moves such as the Kirrik braids, or shifting desert dunes.
• Multiday: The activity will take more than 1 day. This applies an additional time for each week of additional time the check will take.
• Road-less: The route or path does not have a designated road. This applies an additional time if the check also includes the Charting or Group complications.
• Save Time: The activity's focus is to save time over a predetermined route.
• Tracking: The activity regards following tracks. This applies for each day after the tracks were made.
• Unmapped: There is no map of the area the activity takes place in.
• Weather: Weather interferes with the activity. Dense or deadly weather applies this twice, and fog applies four times.

Example tools

The following items are examples of tools for Navigation: Compass(d4, TDC 5), Local Map(d4, TDC 10), and Astrolabes(d6, TDC 15)

Powers

Tier 1

• Backtrack[When lost, you can backtrack on land as far as you were conscious without a check.]
• Compass crafter[You can always spend 10 minutes to create a rudementary compass, which counts as a +1 tool for navigation.]
• Gametrail[You can use Navigation to follow animal tracks.]
• Lunar eye[So long as you can see the sky at night without clouds and know the date, you know your general location in the world.]
• Northminded[You always know which direction is north, even if you are indoors or disoriented.]
• Planar sensation[You do not risk stepping through a planar portal accidentally.]
• Zoned[When outside buildings in a settlement, you automatically know your location in the settlement.]

Tier 2

• 4th Axis[You do not get lost in {infiniterrain}s.]
• Broken Window[You treat ruined or abandoned cities as the same terrain as the area around them.]
• Homeward bound[When on a different plane of reality, you treat the point you arrived as "north".]
• Map Memory[You continue to benefit from a map for up to 1 week after you lose access to it.]
• Navi-?[You may make a Navigation check against the Navigation defense of another creature in order to make the other creature lost.]
• Pocket in the walls[You can use Navigation to search for secret doors you suspect exists due to the layout of rooms.]
• The way of sailing[When sailing, you need make checks only half as often to avoid getting lost.]

Tier 3

• Basic line(The way of sailing)[When sailing, you do not need to make checks to avoid getting lost unless something extraordinary such as a storm or sea battle occurs.]
• Fair compass(Compass crafter)[Your rudementary compasses count as d4 tools.]
• Heiroscopic[Select one kind of weather, you are aware whenever that type of weather will occur within the next three days.]
• Hunter(Gametrail)[You can use Navigation to follow any land-based creatures tracks.]
• Planewanderer[When on another plane, you can use Navigation to find accesspoints back to your home plane.]
• Seapointer(Backtrack)[You can use Backtrack on the sea.]
• True compasses(Compass crafter)[Your rudementary compasses apply to any check that could reasonably use a compass or magnet]