Mon 20 Apr 2015, 09:42
Personally I don't even like this rule and have my own interpretation of it:
So. If it takes 4 hours to search a sector, why would it take shorter to do it from a distance? In most cases it would be totally impossible (according to me) to even search another sector from that distance.
(edit: why i wrote 4 hours was that if you allow a stalker to find bullets from one mile away when he looks into a sector, why would that take shorter amount of time that it would to actually be in the sector and poke around).
I don't know how the creators thought about this. But since this is an RPG after all (and those needs to be adjusted sometimes) my (house)ruling of the subject is:
* It takes about an hour to scout a nearby sector (depending how much ruins there are). The stalker can only detect threats. He cannot use any bonuseffects to find grub, water, bullets or artefacts. He can only use the following:
* You can assess the general level or Rot in the sector.
* The exploration (scout from a lookout point in this case) takes half the time (half an hour for a normal sector).
* You rush through the sector in a quarter of the time it would take to explore it, You avoid all threats <>. Here the stalker see a path that he can take if he decides to move into the sector.
But since the scouting from a lookpout point is a calm and safe things to do(hopefully) he will have a chance to use some scouting and/or know the zone to further analyse the threat(s).
Then after this he stalker have to option to:
* If the stalker used a bonus dice (from above) to find an easy way through, it will only take one hour to walk through the sector (avoiding any threat). The sector is not marked as explored since he has not dealt with any threats or looked around for grub, water, bullets or artefacts.
* If the stalker wants to search for grub, water, bullets or artefacts, he have to deal with any threats and also he must use 'keep looking' (takes four hours) to find those things.
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Fenhorn on Mon 20 Apr 2015, 11:56, edited 1 time in total.
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