Tracking

Advanced
Intelligence
The Tracking skill is used to follow prey, be it animal or otherwise. Following obvious tracks requires no Test and can be done without slowing down. However, any instance when climate, lighting or terrain conditions would interfere always require a Tracking Test. The Difficulty depends on the quality of the prints and the circumstances. For example, a recent snowfall would make tracking prints Difficult (–10) or even Hard (–20). When following obscure tracks, the tracker’s Movement rate drops to half.
Sometimes you will be following quarry that has attempted to cover its tracks, in which case this becomes an Opposed Test made against the quarry’s Concealment Test result.
You may also make Tests to deduce your distance from the quarry, their numbers and their racial type.
A Tracking Test is a Free Action made as part of a Move Action.

Escaping Pursuit

Whilst the most straightforward way of concealing tracks from a pursuer is to hide them using the Concealment skill, as a skilled tracker, you have several more tricks up your sleeve, such as backtracking by using your own tracks or disguising your tracks to resemble those of an animal. You can make a Tracking Test to conceal your tracks instead of Concealment.

Tracking Suspects

You may use the Tracking skill as an Investigation Skill in situations where it is important to work out who or what has been present at a site, when they were there and how many were there, as well as working out where they went next.