Miscellaneous Skills

Alchemy Skill is used to create substances that store spells. Alchemy is most commonly used to brew potions, distill magical reagents, and even create orichalcum.

Animal Handling Not sure about your people skills, but you have a way with the beasts. You are good at caring for, befriending, and managing animals. Riding a horse, teaching a dog tricks, or avoiding attracting a bear to your campsite all fall under this skill. This skill also helps while dealing with the skin walker races, as they are often closely linked to their animal natures.

Artistry This skills pertains to the creative or artistic side of life. Creating something beautiful, interesting, elegant—creative endeavors in their most essential forms, in fact, fall into the category of Artistry. Your basic ability in the fine arts is determined by this skill. Skill includes cooking, graphic design, painting, photography, poetry, sculpture, writing. The addition of specific secondary skill (ex: painting) gives a +2 when creating something specifically.

Biotechnology (skilled only) This is a wide-ranging skill primarily used by doctors and scientists. It is the use of biological processes, organisms, or systems to manufacture products intended to improve the quality of human life. This skill can involve medical processes such as getting organisms to produce new drugs, or regenerate damaged human tissues and perhaps re-grow entire organs or body parts. It can also involves industrial processes such as the production of new chemicals or the development of new fuels for vehicles or space ships. Lastly is can apply to agriculture and involves such processes as the development of pest-resistant grains or the accelerated evolution of disease-resistant animals. This skill is the basis for cloning as well as all forms of bioware. Provided the right equipment is available, biotechnology can be used to repair damaged bioware, clone new tissue, or detect any bioware in a subject’s body. This skill also allows character to install or remove bioware.

Chemistry This skill permits the character to create chemical reactions and develop chemical compounds ranging from drugs, medication, to perfumes, to biopolymers like NuSkin. Chemistry can also be used to analyze chemical compounds to determine what they are.

Climbing The skill of ascending and descending a sheer surfaces with or without the aid of specialized equipment. Assisted climbing is accomplished with specialized gear such as ropes and harnesses Assisted climbing is easier and safer, but requires more preparation. Unassisted climbing may be done on the fly, because you climb without any gear. This skill is used whenever a character wishes to scale a climbable surface or a seemingly un-scalable surface with the use of proper equipment.

Craftsman Skill allows you to build, break, or repair physical items or structures (not including mechanical, electronic or armorer as those are separate skills,) presuming you have the time, tools and material you need. Craft is generally more practical than Artistic or Performance, though less likely to achieve fame and recognition. The addition of a specific secondary skill (Ex: woodworking, sewing, cooking) adds +2 when creating something specifically. In the case of a structure this skill allows a character to build and repair wooden, concrete, or metal structures from scratch, including bookcases, desks, walls, houses and so forth and includes such handyman skills as plumbing, house painting, drywall, laying cement and building cabinets.

• In general, simple repairs require no more than a few minutes to accomplish.

• While more complex repair work can require an hour/days/years to complete.

A character can choose to attempt jury-rigged or temporary repairs. Doing this will allow the character to make a quick repair.

First Aid This is the ability to provide emergency medical assistance similar to that of a paramedic. This skill may be used to stabilize wounds and prevent characters from dying. First Aid cannot be used to perform surgery or repair damaged implants. This skill would allow one to treat Gunshot Wounds, Resuscitation, Broken Bones, Burns, etc.

Free-Fall This skill covers any jump from a height, including leaps from a third-floor window to jumps from a plane at high altitude. If it involves any kind of attempt to slow or control your fall, this covers it, so it includes skydiving with a parachute, flying a wingsuit, or descending on a line, bungee cord, or zipline. Jumping, Break-Fall, Bungee, HALO, Low Altitude, Parachute, Static Line, Wingsuit, Zipline.

Herbalist This is a knowledge of plants and the plant portion of nature in its various forms, allowing character to identify plants as well as fungus and prepare non-magical plant poisons, potions, purgatives, poultices, powders, balms, salves, ointments, and various medicinal remedies.

Intimidation This is convincing someone to do what you want based on direct threats (implied or actual) or sheer force of personality. Intimidation is about creating the impression that you are more menacing than another person in order to get them to do what you want. Use Intimidation to scare someone into submission, browbeat them into getting your way, command them to follow your orders, or berate them into giving up information. This also include the ability to torture information out of an individual. This skill include Threats, Mental or Physical Torture, Scare Tactics.

Investigation This skill is the art of analyzing evidence, piecing together clues, solving mysteries, and making logical deductions from groups of facts. Investigation differs from Perception in that it is the conscious search for clues or pieces of a puzzle. Use Investigation to draw conclusions from assorted details. For example, Investigation could be used to determine the likely sequence of events at a crime scene, determine a possible social connection between two people, or deduce how an enemy made their escape. This skill include Evidence Analysis, Logical Deductions, Physical Investigation, Forensics.

Kinesics This is the art of empathy (non-racial or magical) and non-vocal communication. Use Kinesics to read body language, tells, social cues, and other subconscious indicators. It can also be used to emote more effectively. Kinesics is used defensively whenever someone is trying to deceive you; make an Opposed toll against that person’s Deception or Impersonation skill. Skill include Judge Intent, Non-vocal Communication.

Anthropologist The studies of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Skill includes social anthropology, cultural anthropology, and philosophical anthropology, as well as historical knowledge. This skill also covers the speaking and reading of languages other than the player’s native tongue. Which helps the character decipher written or spoken word by picking up similarities in the languages already known to the character.

Medic (Skilled Only) This skill is the applied care and maintenance of biological beings and life. The character is a skilled physician possessing the ability to diagnose and treat a variety of injuries or diseases and perform surgeries. This skill includes a familiarity with the technology required to perform this task. Use this skill whenever you need to apply medical care beyond the immediate help provided by first responders. This includes conducting physical exams, diagnosing ailments, treating problems and illnesses, dispensing medication, surgery, using biotech and nanotech medical tools, and long-term care.

Navigation This is the art of finding your way, whether using maps, a compass, the stars, or technological means. Use Navigation whenever you need to plot out a course, determine a direction, or otherwise keep from getting lost. This skill includes Astrogation, Map Making, Map Reading.

Negotiation This skill governs a character’s ability to apply their charisma, tactics, and knowledge of situational psychology in order to create a better position when making deals. This skill would include Bargaining, Contracts, Diplomacy.

Operate Craft (Skilled Only for Air and Water Craft) You are an ace when it comes to land, water, or air craft whether small or large. Operate Craft allows you to control these vehicles in bad conditions and perform basic maintenance. You maneuver with precision, allowing you to perform stunts, or tasks that the average vehicle operator couldn't. This also gives you a familiarity with the crafts systems and weapons.

Perceptiveness This skill marks increased attentiveness to the environment about a character through physical sensation as well as an improved quick, acute, and intuitive insight about whatever they observes. It reflects a power to see what is not evident to the average mind, power to distinguish and select what is true or appropriate or excellent, from a trained mind that goes beyond what is obvious or unneeded information.

Performance On the dance floor, you’ve got the moves. In the concert hall, you can belt it. When you need to, you can be someone you’re not. This Skill covers dancing, singing, acting, playing an instrument, and other performed arts. The addition of a specific secondary skills (ex: dancing) gives a +1 when performing something specifically.

Persuasion is the art of convincing someone to do what you want through the use of words and gestures. This does not include persuasion through threats or force (that is covered by Intimidation) or by lying (covered by Con and Bluff). Use Persuasion any time you are trying to bargain with, convince, or manipulate someone. This can include motivating your subordinates or peers to take action, seducing a companion, winning a political debate, or negotiating a contract, among other things. This skill includes Diplomacy, Morale Boosting, Inspiration, Negotiating, Seduction.

Psychotherapist Includes the ability to diagnose mental problems, offer therapy or medication, and use a machine for aided psychological techniques to repair, damage, or manipulate the psyche. Use this skill to attempt the tricky process of editing someone’s mind. This skill can be used beneficially to help patients to remember detailed memories they have somehow blocked, help brainwashed patients, or help someone that has experienced other sorts of mental traumas or torture. This skill may also be used to interrogate, mentally torture, or otherwise mess with a captive’s mind. This skill include Memory Manipulation, Personality Editing, Psychotherapy.

Research This is the skill for looking up information on computer or other electronic device. This the ability to search, sift, mine, and interpret data. This includes knowing where to look, what links to follow, and how to optimize your queries. Use the Research skill whenever you need to look up the answer to a question, find databases, search archives, or track down anything online.

Resistance This is your mental fortitude or willpower. This skill is used to help someone resist a spell (ex: charm) or a rogue skill (ex: persuasion). Resistance applies to situations when your mind is being attacked directly and you try to fight against it or you’re trying to resist doing something against your will. This ability isn’t magical in nature, it is more the minds ability to try and withstand attacks are connected with the mental attribute.

Running (Strength/Endurance) This skill, as you may guess, is about how much ground you can cover quickly. This skill also covers the ability to run long distances and be able to maintain a proper speed and breathing rhythm to conserve energy to help on endure.

Scrounging This is your ability to find things, particularly things of use or value that are concealed, buried, or hard to find. This includes knowing where to look and what to look for. This also includes the knowledge of how to salvage and harness found items without crippling anything. Scrounging differs from both Perception and Investigation in that it is about finding items hidden among others, and in most cases about finding something in particular (food, valuables, etc.). Use Scrounging to dumpster-dive a meal, search ruins for relics, forage berries in the forest, locate a reusable parts in an abandoned ship, etc.

Social Networking is your skill at working your contacts, trading favors, and keeping your finger on the pulse of a particular faction or cultural grouping. Use Social Networking to gather information or call on services owed to you. This can also include lording incriminating or embarrassing information over someone to get them to do what you want.

Survival You can find food, water, shelter, and your way around when out of the comforts of civilization. This Skill can even keep you alive in the face of extremes of weather or when hindered by minor injuries. It also provides you a better ability to survive crashes, or while drifting or lost in space.

Tracking This skill confers the ability to detect the passage of humanoids and other creatures through terrain and use those clues to follow that individual. This skill also allows you to identify unmarked trails and common game paths in various environments. This also pertains to space and includes a familiarity with devices that may be used to track your targets location.