Preparations

The category of Resources is different in many ways from either Scenarios or Skills.  With a Scenario, you are either in one or you are not.  If you are in a scenario you will know it because your life will have been disrupted in some way and your main focus will be to get out of it with your life still intact or get through it by adaptation depending on the expected duration of the situation.  With Skills, you either have them or you don’t.  You may be able to pick up some level of a skill while you are in a scenario but it would be far less painful, stressful or debilitating to have learned that skill beforehand.

Resources on the other hand are much more variable.  With the correct resources available for any scenario, a successful outcome is much more likely than being without them.  However, unlike Scenarios (in it or not) and Skills (have it or not), Resources, if you have them, may run out or expire, wear out, break down, get lost, get stolen, become untransportable, unrepairable, unreliable, separated from you or otherwise cease to be useful in any number of ways. Fortunately, with good luck (not something to be relied upon in stressful times), they may also be capable of being acquired or acceptable substitutes for them found.  Safeguarding, maintaining and generally looking after your resources is therefore likely to be paramount to achieving any success in the long run.