small gripe i have with the tracking rules

[BiggusGeekus]

Intersting side note. If you're using the Scent ability you get a +2DC/hour old penalty, but tracking by visual clues (i.e. normal tracking rules) is only +1DC/day.

Makes sense, but is something to watch for if you (like me) have a scent-tracking ranger in your party, or if the supposed bad-guys with hounds mentioned above have scent. If you can get a few hours on them and they're relying on scent, you'll do fine.

You know ... Gnolls have a favored class of ranger. They don't start with the Scent ability, but I don't think it would be a huge stretch to allow a Gnoll character to purchase it as a feat. Sure, the "decay" would be faster but that initial +4 to tracking would be a nice offset to the -10 penalty.

 

[mmu1]

So Aragorn is an epic level character. Mmhh. Sure doesn't look lit it ...

I see. So the rules have to be messed up because they don't accurately match up with the exploits of a fictional character whose story they aren't even based on.