Chapter 1 - Non-weapon Proficiencies
Charioteering Non-weapon Proficiency
A character with this skill can move a chariot at its normal speed, and effectively drive it over a smooth, wide road. The proficient character requires no check to drive or steer the chariot, including traveling across relatively flat, open countryside, charging into battle, and performing the turns, stops, and starts that might be required on the battlefield.
By making a proficiency check, the character can guide the chariot through obstacles such as deep fords, steeply-climbing terrain, ditches, and rough or rocky ground. Also, with a successful check, the character can add 1/3 to a chariot’s movement rate for the duration of a charge or a march. However, failure of this check means that the chariot moves at its normal rate, but that the horses fatigue in half the normal time. Characters with the animal empathy trait gain a +1 bonus to their ratings with this proficiency.
Note that certain obstacles are simply impassable to chariots, including walls, water too deep (or too muddy on the bottom) to ford, thick forests, and mountainous terrain.
