If there were any regular readers of this website, I'd apologize to them for not putting anything up in so long. Oops, there's Scott, so somebody's watching... :)

Anyhow, I was just looking through the Standard Reference Document when I should've been working, and came up with the following fun facts that make me feel more impressed about Barik:

Barik has a 50/50 chance to know any basic (but not common knowledge) fact about: aberrations, caverns, oozes, spelunking; lands, terrain, climate, people; animals, fey, giants, monstrous humanoids, plants, seasons and cycles, weather, or vermin.

He's got a 50/50 chance to track (checking each mile) a lone orc walking through a stream. On a moonless night. If the orc's walking on normal firm ground, Barik would have the same 50/50 chance to follow the trail on the same overcast night even if it was 2 days old, and it had been raining for three hours.

I also note that Barik can take a Survival check to get a Fortitude save bonus to avoid suffering the ill effects of inclement weather (not the slowing down, but colds and stuff.) His fortitude save is pretty good, so this wouldn't be significant except that for every point he exceeds the check by, he can give the bonus to another member of the party. Something to remember the next time we're slogging through the rain. (If we're standing still, like when we're in camp, the bonus is +4 instead of +2.)