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

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by safisher

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.

Survival (Gas Giant) is not a legit skill. Survival ($GasGiantTerrainType) ((A specific gas giant planet)) is implied to be a legit skill, though no examples of gas giant terrain types exist.

The Basic text also pretty strongly suggests that an Earth creature couldn't have such a skill, considering that a land-dwelling critter supposedly can't even have aquatic habitat survival skills. I would reject that if the creature in question has access to technical means of making the environment in question survivable, but the Basic Set doesn't indicate that.