One of my players took the Mariner background and one of the features is going to come up soon. “Additionally, you can automatically find a safe route to land a boat on shore, provided such a route exists.”
Does that mean they can find land when they’re out of sight of land? Or they can find a safe route through reefs and other obstacles without running into them and damaging their boat when they’re in sight of land?
They are out at sea and they found a floating island and they don’t know that it’s floating yet and they’re going to discover that it moved shortly and part of the mystery will be them trying to find their way back home again. No, none of them took the Navigator’s Tools skill.
I would interpret that as being able to land a ship safely even if it's a rocky coast, with reefs and stuff like that. I would not interpret that as meaning they always know the correct direction to take to the nearest landmass if they're out of sight of land.
I'd guess a mariner should be halfway decent at navigating by sun and stars and could at least point the boat in the right compass direction, so if they know the continent is to the east they could go east, but not necessarily detailed navigation to a small island in the ocean unless they had the appropriate tools to do so.
That is just my interpretation based on what makes sense to me.
One of my players took the Mariner background and one of the features is going to come up soon. “Additionally, you can automatically find a safe route to land a boat on shore, provided such a route exists.”
Does that mean they can find land when they’re out of sight of land? Or they can find a safe route through reefs and other obstacles without running into them and damaging their boat when they’re in sight of land?
They are out at sea and they found a floating island and they don’t know that it’s floating yet and they’re going to discover that it moved shortly and part of the mystery will be them trying to find their way back home again. No, none of them took the Navigator’s Tools skill.
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I would interpret that as being able to land a ship safely even if it's a rocky coast, with reefs and stuff like that. I would not interpret that as meaning they always know the correct direction to take to the nearest landmass if they're out of sight of land.
I'd guess a mariner should be halfway decent at navigating by sun and stars and could at least point the boat in the right compass direction, so if they know the continent is to the east they could go east, but not necessarily detailed navigation to a small island in the ocean unless they had the appropriate tools to do so.
That is just my interpretation based on what makes sense to me.