Tracking

Tracking lets a character find and follow even the faintest trail left by most creatures that walk. A skilled tracker has at most a 95% chance of picking up tracks. Every hour of rain or snow since the tracks were laid lowers that chance by 5%, and so does every 24 hours of age. Each level of ability the tracker gains adds 5% when hunting for old or weathered trails.

Once a trail has been found there is no need to keep rolling unless the quarry does something to break it: wading into or across a stream, pond or pool, crossing ground that is mostly rock, or going into a building or anywhere with wooden or stone floors. Indoors the chance is always halved, and a fresh check is needed for every 100 ft followed. Read Tracks must be learned first. It is a Woodlore skill costing 1,000 XP, requiring tutoring for those outside the hunting professions or a primitive or barbarian background.