Recon Patroller
Level 2Attacks
Abilities
While using Survival to Subsist, if the recon patroller rolls a failure or a critical failure, they get a success instead. If the recon patroller rolls a success, they can provide food for 4 additional creatures that eat about as much as a human, or 8 creatures on a critical success.
The recon patroller can use the Crafting skill to create the following snares:
- •Alarm Snare
- •Hampering Snare
- •Marking Snare
- •Signaling Snare
The recon patroller can create four snares each day without paying for the materials, using 3 Interact actions to set up each snare.
The recon patroller designates a single creature they can see and hear, or one they're Tracking, as their prey. The recon patroller gains a +2 circumstance bonus to Perception checks to Seek the prey and to Survival checks to Track the prey. The first time the recon patroller hits the designated prey in a round, they deal an additional 1d8 precision damage. The recon patroller also ignores the penalty for making ranged attacks within their second range increment. These effects last until the rec
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