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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6617089" data-attributes="member: 92305">--  SURVIVAL and FOOD & WATER  --This is a neat little rule I pulled out of <a href="http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/55090/Adventurer-Essentials-Iron-Rations" target="_blank">Adventurer Essentials:  Iron Rations</a>, which is actually a pretty good short supplement with some nifty ideas and descriptions.  DriveThru will run it for free sometimes, and even when it's not, we're talking about hardly anything to buy this pdf.  The rule I like for the Conan RPG is directed towards the Survival skill.  The point is made that the skill covers all types of terrain, and it's the same throw for a character to eat off the land in desert as it is frozen tundra or thick tropical forests.Check out this table. Allow a character to roll Survival checks in his home terrain at no penalty.  When he tries to make a Survival check outside of his home terrain, we'll use the chart above to create a penalty.  This addresses the issue of a Barbarian from Cimmerian attempting to find food and water in the deserts of Stygia.To use the chart, simple find how many spaces apart the check terrain and the home terrain are, then multiply by two to get the modifier.  Thus, a Cimmerian's home terrain is Mountains, and that's three spaces away from the Desert terrain on the chart.  Therefore, whenever the Cimmerian attempts Survival checks in Cimmeria or other like Mountainous regions, he does so with no penalty.  But, if he's in the deserts of Stygia, he'll use a -6 modifier on the check.Simple rule. I like it a lot.</blockquote>

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