Woodland Foraging (sage ability)

Woodland foraging is an amateur-status sage ability in the study of Forester, similar to general foraging but more effective in temperate and subpolar forest ranges. The ability allows the search for naturally occurring food, including mosses and lichens, berries, wild grasses, herbs, nuts, acorns and fruits. The amount found is far more than an unskilled person might glean while looking over the same tract of land.

The time spent foraging equals 10 hours, though characters may forage for only 1-hour periods, in which case the found food is divided by the 10-hour standard. For example, Makran decides to forage for three hours; he rolls the total amount that would have occurred had he foraged for 10 hours, and recieves 3/10ths of that amount.

Foraging Table

Latitude	Range	Nov 8 to Apr 14	Apr 15-21	Apr 22-30	May 1-11	May 12-24	May 25 - Sep 7	Sep 8-30	Oct 1-15	Oct 16 to Nov 7
taiga	1 in 6	2 in 6	4 in 6	1d4	2d4	3d4	2d4	1d6	5 in 6
	Range	Dec 11 to Feb 15	Feb 16 to Mar 7	Mar 8-31	Apr 1-21	Apr 22 to May 7	May 8 - Oct 15	Oct 16-29	Oct 30 to Nov 12	Nov 13-26	Nov 27 to Dec 10
woodland	3 in 6	1d4	3d4	3d8	5d8	7d6	8d4	6d4	4d4	2d4

Similar to , this provides the character with an ability to locate edible animal and vegetable matter in a forest environment. With regards to edible subterranean flora and fauna that is raised by underground intelligent species, the ability also gives knowledge of what domesticated foods can be eaten safely and by which races.

In a period of 1 to 10 hours of searching outdoors, a skilled forager will be able to find 1-6 lbs. of food daily in a tundra or boreal forest, or 2-12 lbs. in a deciduous or wet forest. There is a only a 1 in 4 chance of the character finding 1-4 lbs. of food in a thorn forest, in such cases, the attempt to find food will produce nothing at all.

The length of time spent searching is "1 to 10 hours," unlike with ordinary foraging, because all the available food may well be found with less than a full day's work.