PF2 SRD:Subsist

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Subsist (Untrained)

If you need to provide food and shelter, you can use the Subsist downtime activity. This typically uses Society if you’re in a settlement or Survival if you’re in the wild.

 

Subsist 

Downtime

You try to provide food and shelter for yourself, and possibly others as well, with a standard of living described on page 294. The GM determines the DC based on the nature of the place where you’re trying to Subsist. You might need a minimum proficiency rank to Subsist in particularly strange environments. Unlike most downtime activities, you can Subsist after 8 hours or less of exploration, but if you do, you take a –5 penalty.

Critical Success: You either provide a subsistence living for yourself and one additional creature, or you improve your own food and shelter, granting yourself a comfortable living.

Success: You find enough food and shelter with basic protection from the elements to provide you a subsistence living.

Failure: You’re exposed to the elements and don’t get enough food, becoming fatigued until you attain sufficient food and shelter.

Critical Failure: You attract trouble, eat something you shouldn’t, or otherwise worsen your situation. You take a –2 circumstance penalty to checks to Subsist for 1 week. You don’t find any food at all; if you don’t have any stored up, you’re in danger of starving or dying of thirst if you continue failing.

Sample Subsist Tasks: Untrained: lush forest with calm weather or large city with plentiful resources Trained: typical hillside or village Expert: typical mountains or insular hamlet Master: typical desert or city under siege Legendary: barren wasteland or city of undead

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