[Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival

[safisher]

Originally Posted by whswhs

The core definition of Survival is as the ability to live off the land; and a failed Survival roll means you suffer 2d-4 injury. But you can't live off the land on a gas giant or an ice world, and the environment there will inflict a lot more than 2d-4 injury per day; in fact it will kill you almost immediately.

Survival (Gas Giant) is a legit skill per Basic Set. The skill roll is to avoid serious injury in the wild, for you or your group. It's fairly generic in that way. It might mean you avoid a slope which could cause a nasty fall, or it might mean you eat poison berries, or sit on a fire ant nest, or whatever. In an utterly alien terrain you avoid utterly alien pitfalls -- whatever they might be.