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New D20 Skills

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Urban Survival (Wis)
The character can keep himself or herself and companions fed and safe in the deadly streets of cities and other urban areas.
Time to use: 1 round +. 

Difficulty Class	Task
10	Getting Along in the City. The character can provide food and shelter (at a 10% discounted rate) for one other person for every 2 points by which the character's check result exceeds 10.
15	Gain +2 on all attempts to Track/Tail a target or +2 on all attempts to lose a Tail/Hide in the city.
15	Recognize urban hazards, such as confidence men, muggers and the like, or avoid getting lost in the city.

Retry: For 'Getting Along in the City' the character may make a check once every 24 hours. The result of that check applies until the next check is made. To Track/Tail, Lose Tail/Hide,  to avoid getting lost or avoid urban hazards, the character makes a check whenever the situation calls for one. Retries to avoid getting lost in a specific situation or to avoid a specific urban hazard are not allowed.
Special: If the character has 5 or more ranks of Intuit Direction, the character gets a +2 synergy bonus on Urban Survival checks to avoid getting lost.
(By Matt Chronister)

Weather Sense (Wis)
The character with this skill has a preternatural ability to predict the weather.
Time to use: 2 rounds.
Limitations: This skill can be used untrained with a -4 penalty to the check.
Check: A successful Weather Sense check allows a character to accurately predict the weather for an upcoming period of time that is determined by the level of success of the check. (The character knows whether storms are coming, whether the rain will clear up, whether the unusual cold snap will continue, and so on.) It is suggested that the GM actually make this skill check, as a character does not necessarily know if he or she is accurately predicting the weather or not. In the case of failed checks, the character thinks the weather is going to remain as it is on the day of the failed check for an additional 2 days.)

Result	Duration of Accurate Prediction
0-9	Failure
10-14	2 days (including the day on which the check is made)
15-19	4 days (including the day on which the check is made)
20-24	6 days (including the day on which the check is made)
25-29	8 days (including the day on which the check is made)
30+	10 days (including the day on which the check is made)

Retry: A character can only make one Weather Sense skill check per day. However, if a character fails a skill check that is covered during the period already included in a successful skill check. the failure has no effect. Successful retries during a period extend the duration of the prediction. (Example: On the first day of a journey, Tita makes a Weather Sense check of 19, accurately being able to predict the weather for the next four days. One the second day of the journey, she only gets a 5 on her check, but the result is ignored because she has already sensed the weather for the next four days. On the third day, she makes another check, this time rolling a 12. Since she is still within the original four day period, with one day to go, this result ends up extending the period by one day.)
Special: Characters with 5 or more ranks in Survival receive a +2 synergy bonus on Weather Sense checks. (By Steve Miller)