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Exploration Skills


Skills from the exploration skill group are used to physically explore the environment around the characters, and to overcome physical obstacles.

Rewards for tests made with exploration skills typically include helping another creature engaging in the same task succeed without needing to also make a test, automatically succeeding on a follow-up test while engaged in the same task, reaching a destination faster than anticipated, and learning about or avoiding an upcoming hazard.

Consequences for tests made with exploration skills include harming yourself, your gear, or your allies; becoming lost; or stumbling headlong into a hazard or a place you were trying to avoid.


Skill
Climb
Move up vertical surfaces.
Skill
Drive
Control vehicles.
Skill
Endurance
Remain engaged in strenuous activity over a long period of time.
Skill
Gymnastics
Move across unsteady or narrow surfaces; tumble.
Skill
Heal
Use mundane first aid.
Skill
Jump
Leap vertical and horizontal distances.
Skill
Lift
Pick up, carry, and throw heavy objects.
Skill
Navigate
Read a map and travel without becoming lost.
Skill
Ride
Ride and control a nonsapient mount, such as a horse.
Skill
Swim
Move through deep liquid.
Source: Draw Steel: Heroes · printing 1.01b