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Action will furnish belief,—but will that belief be the true one?
This is the point, you know. However, it doesn’t much matter.
What one wants, I suppose, is to predetermine the action,
So as to make it entail, not a chance-belief, but the true one...
— Arthur Hugh Clough, “Amours de Voyage”
Strength Skills
Strength Skills
Athletics allows you to perform deeds of physical prowess and athletics. This skill is used to determine the success of physical actions such as climbing a tree, jumping over a large hole, throwing an object at a target, and lifting and carrying heavy objects. When you use the Escape basic action, you can use either Acrobatics, Athletics or Unarmed Strikes.
This particular skill represents your training with heavy weapons, such as mortars, grenade launchers, rocket launchers, or handheld miniguns. This skill only applies to weapons you are physically wielding, as a mounted weapon relies on the Firearms skill instead.
This skill provides you with the training needed to use a melee weapon. This is any weapon used in a close-quarters fight, including blades such as a knife or sword, a bludgeoning weapon such as a club or baton, or even a chainsaw.
This skill provides you with the training needed to fight with your own fists, claws, fangs, or whatever other natural weapons you possess.
Agility Skills
Agility Skills
Acrobatics measures your ability to perform tasks requiring coordination and grace.
Dodge represents your reaction speed, and how well you avoid debilitating or damaging effects aimed in your direction.
You can use Drive to operate a general-purpose motor vehicle (car, truck, motorcycle, motor boat, or snowmobile, for example) to avoid collisions or to lose someone tailing or chasing you while you are operating the motor vehicle.
You are skilled at avoiding detection, allowing you to slip past foes, hide, or conceal an item.
Dexterity Skills
Dexterity Skills
This skill provides you with the necessary ability to fire a bow or crossbow, as well as other primitive ranged weapons such as slings and slingshots, both in combat and in other situations.
This skill represents your ability to react to incoming attacks, blow blows, and defend yourself from attacks.
Your Defence skill bonus is usually used to calculate your base Armor Class. However, you may sometimes be called to make a Defence skill check in reaction to another's attack or manoeuvre against you.
You are skilled at disarming traps and opening locks. In addition, this skill lets you sabotage simple mechanical devices, such as doors or vehicle ignitions.
This skill provides you with the necessary ability to wield most modern firearms, including pistols, shotguns, SMGs and rifles.
This skill reflects your proficiency in manual dexterity and control. This skill allows you to pick pockets without being seen, perform sleight-of-hand tricks, or do other tasks requiring steady hand and coordination.
Constitution Skills
Constitution Skills
This skill measures your physical fortitude and ability to resist debilitating attacks.
This skill increases the amount of distance you can travel and makes long journeys less arduous for you. Usually, Movement checks are made in opposition to other checks or abilities that attempt to impair your ability to move.
This skill measures your toughness and ability to resist pain and physical damage.
Intelligence Skills
Intelligence Skills
This skill involves basic knowledge of business planning. Skill checks are required when you want to play the stock market, apply your business know-how to a trade, determine the value of goods, locate a marketplace, or calculate the local fair market value of a good or service.
Computer Science allows you to access computer systems, write or modify computer programs, and override or bypass computer-controlled devices.
This skill represents your ability to craft various items, from smelting bullets to compounding pharmaceuticals to building a new computer.
This skill provides you with training in the basics of setting explosives and the demolition of specific targets. You develop a working knowledge of handling explosives, using primers and timers, and placing charges for maximum effect. This includes satchel charges, mines, and plastic explosives.
This skill represents your training in the technical sciences, such as engineering. It also represents your know-how regarding the maintenance, repair and upgrading of mechanical and electronic devices.
This unique skill is actually a diverse number of skills, one for each language your character knows.
You have general knowledge of the laws and legal systems of the world, making it possible for you to serve as an advocate in a courtroom situation or to perform the basic actions of a law enforcement professional.
This skill represents your training in the life sciences, including biology, botany, genetics, and zoology. This skill functions as Knowledge, but specialized onto the field of Life sciences.
You can patch up wounds and help people recover from diseases and poisons.
This skill represents your knowledge of the "Secret History" of the world, including arcane secrets, parapsychology, occultism, ghost stories, conspiracy theories, fringe science, and psychic lore.
This skill represents your training in the physical sciences, which include astronomy, chemistry, physics and geology.
This skill represents your understanding of the humanities, the classics, and other "soft sciences" of the ivory tower.
This skill represents your knowledge and understanding of tactics and tactical situations. Most commonly, this comes into play during infantry combat and vehicle combat.
Wisdom Skills
Wisdom Skills
This skill represents your ability to train animals to perform a variety of tasks, including doing labour, accepting riders, tracking and attacking. It is also used to determine if you can get a trained animal to perform a task, ride an animal, or calm a wild animal or unfamiliar domestic animal.
This skill represents your powers of observation, perception and intuition. Usually, this skill is used to determine if you notice something that stands out in a particular scene.
Creativity provides you with training in, and knowledge of, a variety of creative endeavours. Your creative skill represents your sense for the aesthetically pleasing, your ability to communicate or evoke responses through a chosen artistic medium.
This skill represents your training and ability to examine things systematically through observation, inquiry and attention to detail. Unlike the Awareness Skill, which handles the processing of immediate observation, Investigate takes time.
This skill can be used when you attempt to apply logic and reason to reach a conclusion, deduce the solution to a problem, search a specific area to turn up clues, or interrogate a suspect.
This skill represents your inner strength of will needed to defend against mental stress and attacks, stick to your own morals and convictions, and avoid pressure or temptation.
This skill provides you with the knowledge and protocols of "the street." This involves the world of gangs, criminal organizations, dealers of illicit goods and services, and others who live on the fringes of society. This skill measures your ability to negotiate and make contact with the realm of the blue-collar criminal.
You are adept at living in the wilderness, foraging for food and building shelter, and with training you discover the secrets of tracking and hiding your trail.
Charisma Skills
Charisma Skills
This skill measures your ability to keep control of your emotions, resist others' manipulations, and keep a level head while under fire.
This skill represents your ability to understand and interact with appropriate cultural sensitivity. This includes an understanding customs, philosophies, cultural trends, and diplomatic procedures.
This skill represents your proficiency at deceiving others through conversation and face-to-face interaction. This skill includes your ability to bluff your way out of trouble, bribe a suspicious official, fast-talk members of the public, or successfully gamble your way through a game of chance.
This skill represents your proficiency in, and knowledge of, the performing arts. It reflects training, screen presence, magnetism, and your ability to play to your audience.
This skill represents your ability to bend others to your will through threats, and coerce them into performing actions that go against their best interest.
This skill represents your abilities and talents as a leader. With Leadership, you can coordinate a group, and get it to perform better or work as a team.
Spirit Skills
Spirit Skills
This skill measures your understanding of the metaphysical nature of the world, and your ability to draw upon anima.
This skill represents your connection to your darker aspects, and its power over you. This is used by horrors, vampires and nethermancers.
This skill represents your determination, and your ability to establish your own reality, resisting the affects of certain magics and supernatural abilities.
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