Athletics
The Athletics skill represents your character’s general level of physical fitness, whether through training, natural gifts, or genre-specific means (like magic or genetic alteration). It’s how good you are at moving your body.
Burglary
The Burglary skill covers your character’s aptitude for stealing things and getting into places that are off-limits.Contacts
Contacts is the skill of knowing and making connections with people. It presumes proficiency with all means of networking available in the setting.
Crafts
Crafts is the skill of working with
machinery, for good or ill.
deceive
Deceive is the skill about lying to and
misdirecting people.
empathy
Empathy involves knowing and being able to
spot changes in a person’s mood or bearing. It’s basically the emotional Notice
skill.
Fight
The Fight skill covers all forms of
close-quarters combat (in other words, within the same zone), both unarmed and
using weapons. For the ranged weapons counterpart, see Shoot.
Ride
The Ride skill is all about handling
Animals mostly Horses, everybody can ride a horse to get from a to b, if you
want go fast and stylish that’s your skill.
Investigate
Investigate is the skill you use to find
things out. It’s a counterpart to Notice—whereas Notice revolves around
situational alertness and surface observation, Investigate revolves around
concentrated effort and in-depth scrutiny.
Lore
The Lore skill is about knowledge and
education. As with some other skills, we called it Lore because that fits the
particular flavor of our examples—other games might call it Scholarship, or
Academics, or something like that.
notice
The Notice skill involves just
that—noticing things. It’s a counterpart to Investigate, representing a
character’s overall perception, ability to pick out details at a glance, and
other powers of observation. Usually, when you use Notice, it’s very quick
compared to Investigate, so the kinds of details you get from it are more
superficial, but you also don’t have to expend as much effort to find them.
Physique*
The Physique skill is a counterpart to
Athletics, representing the character’s natural physical aptitudes, such as raw
strength and endurance.
provoke
Provoke is the skill about getting
someone’s dander up and eliciting negative emotional response from them—fear,
anger, shame, etc. It’s the “being a jerk” skill.
Rapport
The Rapport skill is all about making
positive connections to people and eliciting positive emotion. It’s the skill
of being liked and trusted.
Resources
Resources skill describe your character’s
general level of material wealth in the game world and ability to apply it.
This might not always reflect cash on hand, given the different ways you can
represent; it might be tied to land or vassals as much as gold.
Shoot
The counterpart to Fight, Shoot is the
skill of using ranged weaponry-Bow and X-Bow.
Stealth
The Stealth skill allows you to avoid
detection, both when hiding in place and trying to move about unseen. It pairs
well with the Burglary skill.
Will*
The Will skill represents your character’s
general level of mental fortitude, the same way that Physique represents your
physical fortitude.
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