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what skill would smell fall under

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like following a scent rather than by footprints or markings
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Uther3867 wrote:like following a scent rather than by footprints or markings
There is a racial feat that Grey Orcs get called Scent, but that is the only one I am aware of. Allows them to use sent when tracking is turned on.
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It falls under survival, however it requires Scent feat. In the past I was told you can be granted a feat IF RP fits the Roleplay. Such as you are in fact raised by wolf's and act feral, or perhaps a half orc raised by full orcs all your life and trained in such.
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tankteddy wrote:It falls under survival, however it requires Scent feat. In the past I was told you can be granted a feat IF RP fits the Roleplay. Such as you are in fact raised by wolf's and act feral, or perhaps a half orc raised by full orcs all your life and trained in such.
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its definitely survival, but if you dont have the feat scent you should be able to work it with the feat track also

scent is basically a free track for grey orcs, without scent/track you have limited abilities mechanically to follow someone (the brown dots on the mini map), but with either one the restrictions become next to nothing

you dont -need- survival ranks however high survival increases the range that you can track... so you dont but you do - low survival wont stop you from seeing the dots on the mini map but obviously once it leaves your rather short range you cant track it, as opposed to being able to track across entire maps
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i just think it's more for if you get the scent of a person it's a lot shorter of range but i think it would work
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Blackman D wrote:you dont -need- survival ranks however high survival increases the range that you can track... so you dont but you do - low survival wont stop you from seeing the dots on the mini map but obviously once it leaves your rather short range you cant track it, as opposed to being able to track across entire maps
Even with high survivial, you are not able to track down everything. You need track if you want to track down any creature.
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