Skills

Skills are a measure of the training and experience in a variety of tasks, social, mental, and physical.

At Character Creation, each character beings with 20 points to spend among the skills. Most races have an additional skill benefit in either points or granted skills.

There are several Core Skills, which most characters will have at least some proficiency in, often starting play with 3 or more ranks in each:

• One Weapon Skill (Unarmed, Melee, Thrown, or Ranged). Assuming your character uses some sort of weapon, you will want a weapon skill
• One Source skill (Magecraft, Sorcerery, Shamanism, Channelling). While Adepts don't have a key core skill, they often have abilities which use a non-core skills.
• Perception. Perception is one of the most called for skills in-game.

Other non-Core skills should be selected by what is appropriate to your character's background and training.

After Character Creation, raising skills cost 3 SXP times the rank you want to raise the skill to.

Core Skills

Skill Name	Required Statistic	Description
Unarmed Combat	Strength, Dexterity	Martial arts, brawling, boxing, touch attacks.
Melee Weapons	Strength	Melee weapons. Longswords, warhammers, and spears.
Thrown Weapons	Strength	Throwing weapons. Bolas, throwing stars, throwing daggers, throwing axes, javelins.
Ranged Weapons	Dexterity	Ranged projectile weapons. Bows, crossbows, magitech weapons.
Exotic Weapons	Strength, Dexterity	Exotic weapons. Spiked chains, clawed gauntlets, elven longblades.
Channeling	Intelligence	Channeling Source casting ability
Magecraft	Intelligence	Magecraft Source casting ability.
Shamanism	Intelligence, Willpower	Shamanism Source casting ability.
Sorcery	Willpower	Sorcery Source casting ability.
Perception	Intelligence	Detect or sense a change in your environment.

Non-Core Skills

Skill Name	Required Statistic	Description
Acrobatics	Dexterity	Tricky or flashy movement, balance checks, jumps.
Business	Intelligence, Charisma	Haggling, trading, ledgers, bills, economics.
Climb	Strength	Scaling vertical objects or surfaces. Trees, cliffs, walls, ropes.
Craft	Intelligence	Creating, manufacturing, brewing, assembling in a particular field. Must select a subcraft.
Deception	Charisma, Willpower	Lies, trickery, concealing intent or truth.
Diplomacy	Charisma	Negotiation, persuasion.
Disable Device	Dexterity	Disarming traps, working with intricate devices.
Escape Artist	Strength, Dexterity	Freeing yourself from bonds or restraints
Gather Information	Charisma	Information through small talk, eavesdropping, social settings, informants.
Handle Animal	Charisma	Body language, words, and touch to prevent animals from panicking.
Intimidate	Charisma, Willpower	Threatening, frightening, bullying.
Knowledge	Intelligence	Book or experience knowledge about a specific topic. Must select a subtopic.
Leadership	Charisma, Willpower	Inspiration, moral boosting, loyalty of subordinates.
Medicine	Intelligence	Binding of wounds, tending of injuries, countering sicknesses.
Perform	Charisma	Dance, music, oratory, acting. Must select a subtype.
Pick Lock	Dexterity	Opening locks without a key.
Ride	Dexterity	Skill at fighting on a mount or moving quickly on a mount.
Search	Intelligence	Careful methodical inspection of an area, tracking
Sense Motive	Intelligence	Understand emotions and intents through facial expressions and body language.
Sleight of Hand	Dexterity	Subtle tricks with distractions and quick fingers.
Stealth	Dexterity	Moving silently, hiding.
Survival	Intelligence	Direction sense, foraging, weathering hostile environments, understanding nature
Swim	Strength, Dexterity	Swimming in liquid, difficulty and/or speed check.

Untrained Skills

Utilizing a skill which a character is unfamiliar with (untrained) will incur penalties:

Base Stat of Skill	Penalty
Charisma/Willpower	0
Strength	-1
Dexterity	-1
Intelligence	-2