Nature Sense will be available IMC as a feat to nomadic Rjurik of 4th level.
This will be a regionally and culturally based availability based on the
following text from Jared Diamond in the book _Guns, Germs, and Steel_, pp.
143-4. Druids will get it as a class feature at 1st level.

"For the last 33 years, while conducting biological exploration in New
Guinea, I have been spending my field time there constantly in the company
of New Guineans who still use wild plants and animals extensively. One day,
when my comanions of the Foré tribe and I were starving in the jungle
because another tribe was blocking our return to our supply base, a Foré man
returned to camp with a large rucksack full of mushrooms he had found, and
started to roast them. Dinner at last! But then I had an unsettling
thought: what if the mushrooms were poisonous?

"I patiently explained to my Foré companions that I had read about some
mushrooms` being poisonous, that I heard even of expert American mushroom
collectors` dying because of the difficulty of distinguishing safe from
dangerous mushrooms, and that although we were all hungry, it just wasn`t
worth the risk. At that point my companions got angry and told me to shut
up and listen while they explained some things to me. After I had been
quizzing them for years about the names of hundreds of trees and birds, how
could I insult them by assuming they didn`t have names for different
mushrooms? Only an American could be so stupid as to confuse poisonous
mushrooms with safe ones. They went on to lecture me about the 29 types of
edible mushroom species, each species` name in the Foré language, and where
in the forest one should look for it. This one, the tanti, grew on trees,
and it was delicious and perfectly edible."

Kenneth Gauck
kgauck@mchsi.com

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