====== Track a Creature ======

**Time Required**:  Special\\
**Skill**:  Survival (Trained)\\

You can attempt to follow a creature's tracks.  This is a two-step process.

First, you must [[unbound:actions:Search]] for the creature's tracks.  The TN to spot the tracks is 10, but if the creature was taking pains to cover its tracks, add its total [[unbound:skills:Stealth]] skill bonus to this.  If you fail in this attempt, you cannot track the creature.

Once you find the creature's tracks, you may attempt to follow them.  Make a Survival skill check against a TN of 10.  Again, if the creature was taking pains to conceal its tracks, add its total Stealth skill bonus to this TN.  On a success, you may track the creature for a distance equal to half a kilometer times your speed.  At the end of this distance, you must roll Survival again to continue tracking.  This movement is considered to be [[unbound:actions:Travel Overland]] at half your speed.

If you lose the track, you may attempt to Search for the tracks again.

A Ranger who successfully Tracks a Creature may use their Hunter's Mark on that creature, even outside of encounters and without being able to see the creature.

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Sebastian has betrayed the party and fled;  Kioni kneels down and examines the grass for his tracks.  Her [[unbound:skills:Perception]] check is high enough to spot Sebastian's tracks, as he wasn't trying to conceal them.  She then must roll Survival to track him.  Again, she gets a success, and can track him for three kilometers.  But the party arrives at a house before the end of that three-kilometer stretch.  Being a Ranger, Kioni immediately uses her Hunter's Mark on the tracks, giving her an advantage when they reach Sebastian.
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