Spot Skill

General Skills Rules: • Taking 10: If you are not threatened or distracted you can take 10 on a roll. • Taking 20: when you have plenty of time, 2 minutes or more and faced with no threats or distractions, you can take 20. This does not count as a ‘natural 20’ and indicate automatic success. Generally this takes 20 times longer than normal. You can’t take 20 on any check that has consequences for failure. • “1” Rolls: When you roll a natural 1 on a skill check, roll D20 again. SUBTRACT this number from your check. • “20” Rolls: When you roll a natural 20 on a skill check, roll D20 again. Add this number plus the 20 to your check
Spot (WIS) Retries: Yes, DM’s discretion

• Retry You may get to reactive make a spot check under circumstances determined by your DM, you may make a spot check as a standard action, when someone else is trying to point out is done as a move action.
• Detect creature hiding: your spot check opposed by the hide check.
• Read Lips: must be within 30’ speak the language and maintain line of sight. A DC 18 check lets you get a general sense of what is said, failure by 4 or less indicates you can’t read lips and 5 or more indicates you draw wrong conclusion. This requires a full round action that you can combine with a single move action at ½ speed. THIS ATTEMPT IS ROLLED BY DM.
• Spotting while at Sea (SW): if you are swimming you can see something in water at 3d6 x 20’, a small boat at .5 miles, a sailing ship at 1 mile and a hilltop or peak at 6 miles. If you are on deck you can see something in the water at .5 miles, small boat at 2 miles, sailing ship at 6 miles and a hilltop or peak at 12 miles. If you are in the crow’s nest or rigging you can see something in water at 1 mile, small boat at 6 miles, a sailing ship at 12 miles, and a hilltop or peak at 25-50 miles. If you are flying you can see something in the water at 1 mile, a small boat at 12 miles, a sailing ship at 25 miles and a hilltop or peak at 100 miles

Action and DC:

• Detect creature hiding Vs. Hide Become Aware of invisible creature DC: 20
• Per 10’ of distance DC: +1
• Spotter distracted DC: -5.
• Read Lips DC: 18
• Someone else is trying to show you (point) DC: +4