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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Starglim" data-source="post: 2794884" data-attributes="member: 17011">Either Search or Survival will allow a character to find a trace of passage, but neither one mentions gaining additional information. Possibly it would be an appropriate Knowledge check, but that doesn't really fit the flavour of what the tracker does - recognising the weight of footprints, dryness of disturbed ground and so on.If you have access to the 1st Edition Unearthed Arcana, it provides full details on what a ranger of specific level can learn from a tracking check.Let's see if I can do a quick and dirty conversion: Assume that a ranger takes maximum ranks in Survival, has a Wisdom bonus of +2 at first level increasing to +3 at 8th level and takes the Self-Sufficient feat by 6th level. Assume that the effects given in Unearthed Arcana result from this ranger character taking 10.If a tracker successfully finds tracks using the Survival skill, or makes a separate Survival check to examine a track, she also gains additional information depending on the total of her Survival check:DC  Additional information 15 + Hit Dice:  Identify animals (see below for adjustments for non-animals)16:  Identify direction of travel17:  Identify numbers of animals (see below for adjustments for non-animals)17:  Identify whether animals are walking, hustling or forced marching (see below for adjustments for non-animals)18:  Identify time since animals passed (see below for adjustments for non-animals)26:  Identify total weight of humanoid (apply the adjustments below for other types or +3 for animals)27:  Identify number of creatures carried by a land-based animal mount (see below for adjustments for non-animals)+3:  Giant, humanoid or vermin+4:  Dragon, fey, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze or plant+7:  Aberration, outsider (native, chaotic, good, earth, water or air)+8:  Any other creature-1:  Every 3 creatures in the group being tracked+8:  Fine size+4:  Diminutive size+2:  Tiny size+1:  Small size+0:  Medium size-1:  Large size-2:  Huge size-4:  Gargantuan size-8:  Colossal size-10:  Very soft ground-5:  Soft ground+0:  Firm ground+5:  Hard ground+1:  Every 24 hours since trail was made+1:  Every hour of rain since trail was made+10:  Snowfall since trail was made+6:  Moonless night+3:  Moonlight+3:  Fog or precipitation+5:  Tracked party hides trailRetry: None, unless the DC decreases.Special: If the tracker is a ranger and the creature tracked is his favoured enemy, the DM should add the appropriate bonus to this check.</blockquote>

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