Skills

Read about skill checks here.

Skills are sometimes used in room exits, e.g. the Climb skill to get out of a pit. Some skills also have additional uses as listed on this page.

Skills in Dungeon Seeder progress automatically following this table.

Autohypnosis

Key ability: Wis

Balance

Key ability: Dex

You can walk on a precarious surface. This skill helps you to keep your balance on an area affected by Grease.

Bluff

Key ability: Cha

You can use the Bluff skill to help you hide. A successful Bluff check gives you the momentary diversion you need to attempt a Hide check whilst people are aware of you.

Climb

Key ability: Str

Concentration

Key ability: Con

To cast a spell, you must concentrate. If something interrupts your concentration while you’re casting, you must make a Concentration check or lose the spell.

Craft

Key ability: Int

Decipher Script

Key ability: Int

Demolitions

Key ability: Int

Diplomacy

Key ability: Cha

This skill helps you to get a better price in shops.

This skill also allows you to gather information about a city’s major news items, a specific rumour, a specific item, or to obtain a map or do something else along those lines. Use this skill in inhabited areas, especially taverns.

Command: /gather

Disable Device

Key ability: Int

This skill allows you to disarm traps.

Command: /disable {trap direction}

Disguise

Key ability: Cha

Your Disguise check result determines how good you are at disguising as a member of another race. You must be in a tavern to disguise.

Commands:

• /disguise {race}

• /disguise (to remove your disguise)

Dreamwalk

Key ability: Wis

Drive

Key ability: Dex

Escape Artist

Key ability: Dex

This skill helps you to break loose from an area affected by Web.

Hide

Key ability: Dex

This skill helps you to hide from other players. If someone is present in the room, you can use your Bluff skill to create a diversion, unless they are not aware of your presence because you successfully entered silently.

Command: /hide

Intimidate

Key ability: Cha

Jump

Key ability: Str

Knowledge

Key ability: Int

Knowledge represents a study of some body of lore, possibly an academic or even scientific discipline. It is a key skill for the PvP game Scholar's Challenge.

To morph into a creature, knowledge of its type is required, e.g. Knowledge (nature) to morph into an animal. Read more about it here.

Below are listed general fields of study.

• • Arcana (ancient mysteries, magic traditions, arcane symbols, cryptic phrases, constructs, dragons, magical beasts)

  • Earth (geography, geology, lands, terrain, caverns, oozes, spelunking)

  • Engineering (architecture, buildings, aqueducts, bridges, fortifications)

  • Forbidden (aberrations, cosmic and dark secrets, cults, curses)

  • History (royalty, wars, colonies, migrations, founding of cities)

  • Folklore (legends, personalities, inhabitants, customs, traditions, humanoids, fey)

  • Nature (animals, giants, monstrous humanoids, plants, seasons and cycles, weather, vermin)

  • Nobility (lineages, heraldry, family trees, mottoes, personalities)

  • Planes (the Inner Planes, the Outer Planes, the Astral Plane, the Ethereal Plane, outsiders, elementals, magic related to the planes)

  • Psionic (psionic traditions, psychic symbols, cryptic phrases, astral constructs, and psionic races)

  • Religion (gods and goddesses, philosophy, mythic history, ecclesiastic tradition, holy symbols, undead)

Below are listed scientific fields of study.

• • Biology (botany, forensics, genetics, medicine, zoology)

  • Chemistry (pharmacology, nanotechnology)

  • Mathematics (computer science, economics, statistics)

  • Psychology (mental therapy, sociology, criminology)

  • Physics (astronomy, cosmology)

Below are listed Modern fields of study.

• • Art (fine arts and graphic arts, including art history and artistic techniques)

  • Bureaucracy (?)

  • Business (business procedures, investment strategies, and corporate structures. Bureaucratic procedures and how to navigate them)

  • Civics (law, legislation, litigation, and legal rights and obligations. Political and governmental institutions and processes)

  • Computer (networks, computer programs, computer security, robotics, starship sensors)

  • Streetwise (street and urban culture, local underworld personalities and events)

  • Technology (current developments in cutting-edge devices, as well as the background necessary to identify various technological devices)

  • Warfare (weapons and defenses, military traditions/formations, unit compositions)

Knowledge (Arcana)

This skill helps you to recognise spells when they are getting casted. It is also required for a wizard to learn a new spell.

Knowledge (Psychology)

Key ability: Wis

Knowledge (Religion)

This skill helps you to recognise which god a cleric is worshipping from looking at their outfit.

Listen

Key ability: Wis

This skill activates automatically. It helps you to hear someone who is moving silently.

Move Silently

Key ability: Dex

This skill allows you to not be heard when you enter a new room and to move silently past monsters which haven't spotted you.

Command: /autosneak (to turn it on or off)

Open Lock

Key ability: Dex

This skill activates automatically as you move in a door's direction.

Perform

Key ability: Cha

This skill is required for magic bard songs. It is also a key skill for the PvP game Bard's Challenge.

You could have several Perform skills, each with its own ranks, each purchased as a separate skill.

Each of the eight categories of the Perform skill includes a variety of methods, instruments, or techniques, a small list of which is provided for each category below.

• • Act (comedy, drama, mime, buffoonery, joke-telling)

  • Dance (ballet, waltz, jig)

  • Keyboard instruments (harpsichord, piano, pipe organ)

  • Oratory (epic, ode, storytelling)

  • Percussion instruments (bells, chimes, drums, gong)

  • String instruments (fiddle, harp, lute, mandolin)

  • Wind instruments (flute, pan pipes, recorder, shawm, trumpet)

  • Sing (ballad, chant, melody)

Perform (Dance)

This skill affects the effectiveness of the dance emote.

Command: /dance {target}

Perform (Keyboard)

The skill Perform (keyboard) unlocks the keyboard client plugin (opened with the lyre button); it allows you to play music for the other players. We will eventually add a sound library for every instrument type.

Perform (Oratory)

This skill allows you to speak in a colourful text.

Commands: here

Pilot

Key ability: Dex

Protect

Key ability: Str

This skill helps you to stand in front of someone and protect them. It does not protect from ranged attacks, and reach weapons gain a +5 bonus against Protect. [Similar to the feat Harm's Way]

Commands:

• /protect {target}

• /protect (to unprotect)

Ride

Key ability: Dex

• • This skill helps you to to control your mount in battle. On a successful skill check against DC 20, you can land an attack.

  • You can react instantly to try to take no damage when you fall off a mount on a successful skill check against DC 15, otherwise you take 1d6 points of falling damage.

  • Your mount's AC is treated as your Ride skill if it is greater, and you have the Mounted Combat feat.

Command: /ride

Search

Key ability: Int

This skills allows you to search for secret doors and hidden items.

Command: /search

Sense Motive

Key ability: Wis

This skill activates automatically. It opposes the Bluff skill.

Sleight of Hand

Key ability: Dex

This skill helps you to to take something from another creature (in particular, their gold).

Command: /rob {target}

Spot

Key ability: Wis

This skill has two specific uses:

• • Spot someone who is trying to hide (activated automatically).

  • Spot someone who is already hidden with the /search command.

Survival

Key ability: Wis

This skill is required to track.

Command: /track {target}

Swim

Key ability: Str

On a successful skill check against DC 10, you move faster whilst swimming.

Treat Injury

Key ability: Wis

Tumble

Key ability: Dex

On a successful skill check against DC 15, it absorbs 4 points of falling damage.

Use Magic Device

Key ability: Cha

This skill is used to cast spells from scrolls and wands. To use a wand, equip it as a weapon and attack the target. To use a scroll, type the command below.

Command: /c2 {spell} {target}

Use Psionic Device

Key ability: Cha

Wild Empathy

Key ability: Cha

This skill helps you to befriend animals.

Command: /tame {target}