Territorial Familiarity

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Your character has spent a great deal of time in a specific area and has a preternatural familiarity with the area. He has a detailed map in his head, never loses his sense of direction, always knows how and where to find food in his “territory” and can evade unwanted attention there for an almost unlimited length of time. He adds a +2 to all Survival Skill rolls made while in the chosen region.

One dot in this Merit means your character’s territory is the size of one or two city blocks. Three dots (or two for werewolves) expands the radius to several square miles.

Though this Merit is included in a chapter on life in the wilderness, it is of equal utility in urban settings. A bum who has been sleeping on the same street corner for years or a youth who knows exactly which yards to cut through near his house might have a one-dot version; a cop who’s been on the same beat for 20 years or an architect who designed every last piece of a sprawling mall over the last 10 years might have the Merit at three dots. When the region denoted by this Merit is altered significantly, the quality of Territorial Familiarity can be reduced (if possessed at three dots) or lost altogether (in either case). A teenager who returns from his scholarship at college to learn that the tenements where he grew up have been replaced by a strip mall would lose his Merit. A park ranger whose park was ravaged by a wildfire might have the Merit reduced or lost. In the latter case, the Merit might return as the forest recovered.

Werewolves, naturally territorial creatures, purchase the three-dot version of Territorial Familiarity at a reduced cost of two dots.

See Also Direction Sense • Homeward Bound • Iron Stomach • Spelunker • Territorial Familiarity

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