Downtime + Earth Approach
An Earth approach lets a character restore damaged items, research historical information, stymie another person, or produce a trade good.
Details
At the start of each downtime scene, each player chooses the downtime activity that their character is pursuing. Downtime activities are meant to help give players clear options for their characters during downtime scenes.
 
Opportunity Uses
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Artisan Skill: If you succeed, add the Durable quality to an item that you are restoring.
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Scholar Skill: Remember a place where you can research or study the topic you were attempting to recall.
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Social Skill: Increase the TN of the next Social Check a character you were trying to stymie in the same downtime by 1.
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Trade Skill: Reduce the TN of the next check another character makes with the same skill in the same downtime.
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Another character in your company may remove 1 strife or fatigue per * spent this way.
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Memorize a small but vital detail from to your activity; you can recall it later without a check.
 
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 If you failed, determine the easiest way to accomplish the task you were attempting (skill and approach).
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Remove 1 strife you gained from this check per * spent this way.
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Provide assistance to the next character to attempt a check to accomplish something similar
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If you failed, provide assistance to the next character trying to accomplish the same action (p. 298 CRB)
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Reassure another character in the scene with your presence, allowing them to remove 2 strife.
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Act carefully to minimize consequences of failure or other dangers that could arise from the task. Extra * makes the attempt even safer.
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Suddenly recall an important piece of information not directly related to the task. At the GM’s discretion, you may establish a small preparatory action you took earlier, such as bringing along a common useful item.
Special Circumstance Opportunities
In Shadowlands
** Your resolute nature steels you against the unstable environment of the Shadowlands. You count your vigilance as 1 higher the next time you seek to notice or avoid a hazardous situation or creature.
Against Tainted ThreatS
** You are able to weather such terrible things as the revelation of a secret mahō-tsukai or the summoning of an oni. The next time you suffer strife this scene, you suffer 2 fewer strife, to a minimum of 0.
While Tainted
** No mortal concern can slow you, as you already endure worse than most can even imagine. For the rest of the scene, whenever you suffer fatigue reduce the value suffered by 2, to a minimum of 0.
IN Romance
** An offhand comment reveals that you and your intended share some common ground: an odd hobby, a favorite actor, or a core belief. Make three suggestions to your intended’s player; they must tell you which one it is. You and your intended may each remove 2 strife.
In Espionage
*+ You locate an excellent hiding place, either a place where no one questions your cover identity or a concealed location no one checks. While hiding in this location, you reduce the TN of your checks to avoid notice by * spent this way
In Contested Territory
* * *  You create a clever disguise or ruse to get the jump on potential foes. The next time you enter a conflict scene this session, after initiative has been determined, choose one character in the scene. On that character's next check, they must reroll all results containing non-explosive Success symbols.
*  Not even the chaos of war or the strangeness of foreign lands can faze you. Reduce the TN of the next check you make to deal with an unfamiliar situation or opponent by 1.
*  You hold fast to the thought of home while in distant locals and dangerous situations. You may remove 1 strife for each condition you are currently suffering.