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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 3044795" data-attributes="member: 41187">Actually, both skills can be used to locate tracks, survival merely allows you to follow them. These are simply two mechanical approaches for the two different real ways to approach tracks.Search: Hey!  I found some footprints.  Looks like hobgoblins.  Do you think it was a hobgoblin war band that destroyed the village?Survival: Hey!  I found some hobgoblin tracks.  They head towards the mountians.  Don't the Green Wolf and Stone Displacer tribes live up there?  I wonder which one was behind the destruction of this village....  Well, let's follow these tracks and find out!You really do need only one skill to locate and follow tracks.  If you don't have that skill (survival) then you can still find tracks and learn some information from them but you can't follow them.Urban Tracking is all about walking up to people and going "Dude, have you seen a half-orc with a jagged scar on her left cheek and a bright purple mohawk?  Which way did she go?" in a fast enough manner to actually catch up to the target.  In no way analagous or pertinent to Search and SurvivalOr are you asking if I want to remove it too?It's a variant rule, which means that it doesn't exist unless I say it does.  Or I can lift the mechanics out and fold them into the Gather Informaiton skill.  Whichever I wish to use.It actually hasn't come up in my games.  I'm not sure which I'd do, though I'd probably fold it into GI, for consistency if nothing else.</blockquote>

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