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Skills represent your character's influence on the world around them--what they know, what they are capable of doing, and how people react to them. While skills are most commonly used out of combat, savvy players can find ways to weave their skills into the midst of a battle--for instance, a character with high Athletics may find themselves tackling a beast off a moving train to bring them to a lower floor or swinging across a ship's mast to strike unexpectedly, or a character with a high Intimidation may scare away a quailing foe, or one with high Agility may find themselves able to escape a thrown net.
Skills are modified by several factors:
- Your skill points that you have spent on the skill.
- Your current Job.
- Your race.
- Your Traits that you selected at character creation.
- Various miscellaneous factors, such as equipment or abilities.
At level 1, you begin with 100 skill points, and gain 10 more per level. Skill points can be spent to increase skills up to a maximum dependent on your Prime Job's highest Rank:
Certain Traits may modify the number of skills you receive, or your skill maximums.
Physical: Skills that involve physical activity and take more than a passing effort to do effectively.
- Athletics - Climbing sheer cliff faces and dangling ropes, swimming through bodies of water, general feats of athlecism. A higher skill level ensures success for even the most grueling challenges and perilous terrain.
- Stamina - The ability to perform everything from draining, repetitive work to quick bursts of great effort. At higher skill levels, your character's stamina could allow them to work for very long periods.
- Strength - The ability to lift, push, pull, and drag large objects. The more Strength your character has, the greater the weight they can move about with ease.
- Agility - The ability to bend, twist, lean, and otherwise show off your character's flexibility or jumping ability, including the ability to free one's self from ropes, shackles, jail cells, and everything in between. A skilled acrobat can fit in the tightest and most oblong of spaces, and is never kept in any one place for long.
- Riding - The ability to mount and ride creatures such as Chocobos. Skilled riders can push such creatures harder and faster, significantly shortening travel time.
Applied: The knowledge of many things, from language to dealings with the marketplace.
- Notice - The ability to see or hear things that would otherwise go unseen, whether it's a secret passage or a carefully tucked-away scrap of paper on a desk. Greater skill in notice allows your character to never miss an opportunity at treasure or information.
- Wilderness - The ability to survive out in the wilderness with or without proper supplies, and identify plants, herbs and other vegetation in the wild and otherwise.. Skilled survivalists can set up proper shelter to survive the night and identify the rarest of plants.
- Medical - The ability to treat injuries with proper tools and, if needed, in the field. Higher skill levels allow a character to treat more gruesome injuries, or restore more LP in a given session.
- Trade - The ability to barter, whether for buying or selling goods. A skilled tradesman can buy dirt cheap and sell extremely high, turning a profit with relative ease.
- Thievery - The ability to move quietly in the shadows, lift a purse from an unsuspecting passerby, or disguise ones self to look like a completely different person.
Lore: Skills in this branch will help characters in identifying/knowing about many things in the world.
- Creatures - The ability to determine everything from a creature's race to its habitat, mannerisms and general abilities. A character skilled in Creature Lore can offer extremely helpful information to the party regarding combat tactics and things to be careful of.
- Language - The ability to speak languages other than Common fluently, and decode or translate even the most foreign of languages.
- Civics - The ability to recall the world's history for both important and mundane events, determine one's place on a map and navigate using one, and knowledge of governmental structure and proceedings.
- Magick - The ability to determine how a magical item or trap functions and potentially disable it, if possible. Higher skill levels in Magick Lore allow a character to better identify and dismantle magical relics and traps.
- Religion - The ability to summon knowledge on the world's religions, be it their Gods or beliefs or even their texts. A character with high Religion Lore can easily recall such things, whether they need to infiltrate a religious site or preach their beliefs to others.
Social: The ability to not look like a total fool when trying to have conversation with people within the game world. Social is further broken down into 5 Specialist categories:
- Charm - The level of natural charisma the character has, landing better first impressions, as well as their knowledge of social protocol in different situations. A character skilled in Charm will always know what his or her mark wants to hear and speak with a silver tongue.
- Intimidation - The ability to get what your character wants through fear, be it with harsh words or brutal displays. Higher skill levels of intimidation allow your character to frighten even the most fearless of targets and leave them shaking in their boots.
- Guile - The ability to speak lies without so much as a quivering lip or a change in tone, as well as a knowledge of street smarts and the ability to pick up on local gossip to find locations. A character skilled in Guile have few tells when lying, and can find anything in a city from the best Sabotender Stew to an invitation to the backalley card games.
- Negotiation - The ability to get what your character wants through reason and discussion, either through debate or simple conversation. A skilled negotiator knows how to turn a conversation in the direction they desire, and then seal the deal with utmost efficiency.
- Intuition - The ability to detect the motives and 'tells' an NPC or other character has. A character with more intuition can better sense liars, and may even receive a warning from the DM when making a decision with poor consequences.
Technical: Skills within this branch help the character when making items out of materials/objects found within the game world. Technical is further broken down into 5 Specialist categories:
- Alchemy - The ability to mix herbs, powders and other such ingredients into helpful potions and tinctures. More skilled alchemists can create special pomanders that replicate spell effects.
- Cooking - The ability to prepare food, whether it's for the character themselves or their party mates. A skilled cook never burns food, and can keep your party well-fed to stave off fatigue on a long journey while providing benefits via their cooking.
- Crafting - The ability to forge weapons armor, from simple cloth robes to deadly swords to suits of heavy armor. Skilled crafters can work powerful enchantments and magicite into their creations.
- Mechanics - The ability to create and operate magitek machinery. A skilled mechanic always knows which lever to pull or wire to cut, and can even put together a few devices of his or her own creation. Additionally, Engineers make use of Mechanics for several of their skills.
- Piloting - The ability to control vehicular machina, from trains to Magitek Armor to airships. A skilled pilot can utilize any machina they come across, no matter the complexity.
- Attunement - The ability to identify magical items with proper tools or in the field. A character more attuned can identify items of greater rarity and tier.
When making a skill check, roll 1d100 and add your total mods to the roll. A variety of situational effects can add to or subtract from a check's final result. If the result is equal to or greater than the Target Number (set by the GM), the check passes.
Target numbers and difficulty examples are presented as examples only; the GM is free to assign target numbers as they see fit.
Critical Successes/Fails: No matter what you roll on your dice, neither success nor failure is guaranteed. Instead:
Rolling a 95 or higher adds a +20 bonus to the roll.
Rolling a 5 or lower adds a -20 penalty to the roll.
This may produce additional effects, as described below.
Levels of Success: Sometimes a skill may still pass even if you do not reach the target number, or have different effects depending on how far away from the target number the result is. For instance, a character is attempting to pick a lock.
- An extremely high result (40 above target number) may allow the character to pick the lock instantly, or totally silently.
- A result that is nearly at the target number may result in the lock being picked, but the process takes longer but makes a lot of noise.
- An extremely low result (40 below target number) may result in the lock being jammed and unable to be picked.
The GM is free to use whatever result they like from a roll to encourage roleplaying and make a scene exciting!
Automatic Successes: Sometimes a character is skilled enough to complete a skill check without a roll. The following conditions must apply:
- The character has at least 10 skill points spent on the skill.
- The character is not under duress and can take their time completing the task.
- The GM determines that the skill being used and the task being performed is appropriate for an Automatic Success.
In this case, the character can automatically succeed at the task without making a skill check. Levels of success do not apply in this instance; the task only succeeds without further fanfare.
Cooperative Skills: Sometimes, a skill may allow one or more party members to contribute to the skill. In this case, all participating characters make a skill check. In this case, characters may not use Automatic Successes.
- All characters make a skill check. The highest result is the "primary result".
- For each character (not including the primary result) whose result is at least (target number - 20) adds a +10 bonus to the primary result.
Levels of success can still apply to this roll, so as a group the party may be able to do things they could not do individually. The GM may limit the number of characters that can participate in a Cooperative Skill.
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