SWATT

The character is used to the outdoor life. This skill reflects greater experience of the wilderness, and is a prerequisite for all other wilderness skills.

At certain levels of wilderness, you gain various outdoor survival skills automatically.

Level 1: The ability to find north and tell the time of day (sun and star lore).

Level 2: The ability to tie secure knots that are difficult to break (knot tying).

Level 3: The ability to light fires from things you would find in a forest (firelighting).

Level 4: The ability to take less damage from falling (relaxed fall).

Level 5: The ability to forage for food (find food and water).

Level 6: The ability to create or disarm snares and pits for wildlife (devise and disarm traps).

Level 7: The ability to climb nearly any surface (spider climb).

Level 8: The ability to communicate with animals for basic information (communicate with animals).

These abilities have little effect in actual play, but represent an increasing amount of skill in scouting that allows the character to better scout out areas in downtime.

The character grows more agile and flexible, able to dodge or roll with a blow in order to avoid damage.

For every 4 ranks of Combat Awareness, Agility and Dodge a character possesses they gain a point of Dodge.

For the rules on Dodge please see Combat

A character with levels of this skill is able to conceal themselves in natural surroundings. This is not magical - you need suitable cover to make use of this skill. Suitable cover includes bushes, trees, long grass and similar. Unless these rules state otherwise, you may take no action while stealthed. Coming out of stealth takes five seconds, during which you are crawling out of your hiding place. You are visible and vulnerable during this time (make the FADE gesture,) but may take no action.

Level 1:

You can hide yourself within a terrain feature given suitable camouflage. You must go to the edge of the terrain feature, assume 'hidden' position and spend 60 seconds 'hiding yourself' (make the FADE gesture); you are then hidden within the terrain feature and are invisible as per invisibility rules. Being watched while concealing yourself is not enough to prevent you hiding; any call other than Nothing will interrupt you, as per casting. A terrain feature is defined as an inanimate object or plant large enough to physically hide you.

Level 2:

You may move slowly (i.e. not running) around the edge of (and through) this terrain feature up to the limits of physrepping. If you move more than a metre from the terrain feature this breaks invisibility. Two terrain features are considered separate features (and thus moving between them requires you making yourself visible while you hide yourself in the new one) if they are physically separated by more than a metre.

Level 3:

It now only takes you 30 seconds to hide in a terrain feature.

Level 4:

You may run while hidden in a terrain feature.

Level 5:

It now only takes you 10 seconds to hide in a terrain feature.

Level 6:

You may break camouflage instantly by making a melee attack.

Level 7:

It now only takes you 3 seconds to hide in a terrain feature.

Level 8:

You may break camouflage instantly by making a ranged attack.

For every 4 levels of Health (see General Skills page), Fitness and Fortitude (in any combination) you gain 1 extra hitpoint on each location.

The character can cure and harden one set of 1 or 2 point fur or leather armour, so that it counts as armour worth 1 more point for the purposes of protection. That is, any 1pt armour is counted as 2pt, and any 2pt armour is counted as 3pt. The armour must be continually maintained by the character to maintain its properties. The armour is considered to have its unmodified protection value for the purposes of calculating how much armour the character can wear (so a hardened fur vest will provide 2 points of armour, but count as 1 for working out how much armour you are wearing).

Each level of Light Armour taken allows the character to wear an additional 2 points' worth of armour. Will not stack with Armour skill.

The character has an acute sense of smell and familiarity with the scent of a particular race. This is a family of skill trees, one for each race of interest. You may only buy this skill for a particular race if you have had some exposure to a member of that race.

The first level of this skill allows the character to call DETECT (race) on one individual if within close range of them (about 1m). The second level of this skill allows the character to call WIDE DETECT (race) for the given race.

This skill allows a Wilderness character to choose to call RESIST to increasing numbers of STRIKEDOWN calls, up to 3 per encounter (including those which come as part of a MASS or WIDE call, or as the result of being hit by an arrow.)

Level 1:

You may call RESIST to one strikedown call per encounter.

Level 2:

You may call RESIST to two strikedown calls per encounter.

Level 3:

You may call RESIST to three strikedown calls per encounter.

These effects explicitly do not stack with each other: with Surefootedness 3, should a WIDE, a MASS and a targetted STRIKEDOWN all occur in the same encounter, you may only choose to call RESIST to one of them.

Should the call of STRIKEDOWN be combined with any other system call to which you are not immune, you may call RESIST to the strikedown, but should take the other effects of the call as appropriate. eg. with Surefootedness II, should the call "MASS SPIRIT HEX THROUGH STRIKEDOWN" be called you may choose to call RESIST to the STRIKEDOWN, but must still take the SPIRIT HEX THROUGH.

You have received specialised training with ranged weapons. Bear in mind that all damage caused by a bow automatically causes a STRIKEDOWN, without you needing to make this call. You gain the following abilities at the given level:

Level 1:

The ability to call SINGLE THROUGH with a bow or a crossbow.

Level 2:

The ability to call DOUBLE with a bow or crossbow.

Level 3:

The ability to call DOUBLE THROUGH with a bow or crossbow.

Level 4:

The ability to call TRIPLE with a bow or crossbow.

Level 5:

The ability to call TRIPLE THROUGH with a bow or crossbow.

Level 6:

The ability to call QUAD with a bow or crossbow.

Level 7:

The ability to call QUAD THROUGH with a bow or crossbow.

Level 8:

The ability to call HEX with a bow or crossbow.

If you wish to take the Targeteer skill, you must first pass an OOC safety test, as LARP bows are the most potentially dangerous of all the LARP weapons we use.

You have learnt to improvise in your surroundings, and can use nearly anything as an effective offensive weapon. You can use larpsafe throwing weapons for SINGLE, if you hit.

Each level enables you to do the following:

Level 1:

You can track things that would normally leave tracks and are taking only moderate precautions against being tracked, in the wilderness only. You may not track competently in the city. You may conceal your tracks from anyone with Track I, 2nd level spells or below. You can recognise the method used to defeat your tracking if you cannot track something, unless Track II+ or equivalent is used to defeat your skill in which case you do not even see covered tracks. Can generally tell what kind of creature made a track even if you haven't seen them start making it.

Level 2:

You can track things that would normally leave tracks and are taking only moderate or insufficiently trained precautions against being tracked, anywhere on the surface of the Material Plane. You may conceal your tracks from anyone with Track II, 4th level spells or below. You can recognise the method used to defeat your tracking if you cannot track something, unless Track III+ or equivalent is used to defeat your skill in which case you do not even see covered tracks. Can generally tell what person made a track as long as you have seen the person.

Level 3:

You can track anything that is not capable of becoming incorporeal or teleporting and is taking only moderate or insufficiently trained precautions against being tracked, anywhere on the Material Plane. You may conceal your tracks from anyone with Track III, 6th level spells or below. You can recognise the method used to defeat your tracking if you cannot track something, unless Track IV or equivalent is used to defeat your skill in which case you do not even see covered tracks. Can generally tell what person made a track even if you haven't seen the start of it as long as you have a decent description of the person (including their footwear!) - by corollary, you get a decent description of the footwear of anyone you're tracking.

Level 4:

You can track anything that exists, anywhere that you can follow - and if you can't follow, you know where they went. You may conceal your tracks such that nothing short of divine intervention or the direct action of an elemental lord can follow them. If you cannot track something, you will know what covered the tracks (and probably where it came from, and where it went). You get a reasonably good description of whatever you're tracking, and if you have a description or a scent you can identify a particular person's tracks.

A character with ranks in this skill has some familiarity with armed combat.

Level 1:

Call SINGLE with one type of short (less than 36") weapon.

Level 2:

Either call SINGLE with any type of short weapon, or call SINGLE by two handed weapon (42" or longer).

Level 3:

The ability not granted at level 2.

Level 4:

Wield two weapons at once, one in each hand, both 36" or shorter, for SINGLE with each.

This skill allows a character to call double with any single handed weapon between 24 and 36 inches long or any 2 handed weapon of up to 60 inches long.