Skills, All you want to know...

[Blackhawk]

Skills

This thread is all about the many skills your character can learn. Skills are nessesary because not everyone will know everything about everything. Following so far? Here's a run down,

Each skill has a name, right after the name is the stat that will influence this skill the most. That is, if you have 0 ranks in bluff, that doesn't mean you cannot lie, it just means you wont lie very well. Your Intelligence will determine how well you can lie without the skill, and even with ranks the higher intelligence you have, you get a little bit more of a bonus. You then have the description. Every skill will have an initial price, this is how much training points you must pay in order to learn rank 1 of the skill. Next to this is the increment of training points to learn the next level.

So for this example, bluff's initial price is 35 training points, since it has a 5 training point increment, to buy rank 2 of bluff you will have to spend 40 training points (35 + 5 = 40), to buy rank 3 you will have to spend 45 training points (40 + 5 = 45). Note, this stacks, so to go from rank 1 to rank 3, it would cost 85 training points (40 + 45 = 85).

-Bluff: (Int) Become better at telling fibs [35] <5>

Comparison
To put it in perspective, 3 ranks in any skill is average, for instance with the bluff skill, when you reach rank 3 you are able to fool most common people that you talk to. Then you reach rank 6 you are gifted in that skill, you can bluff very intelligent people, and rank 9 is typically adept, it's very hard to know when your character is lieing. Some skills will vary

Specialization
Only for advanced users. Some skills at a certain level are able to go into specializations, which are typically in different fields. The Skill Specializations are in the Advanced Rules.

Skills

-Poisoncraft: (Int) Learn about Poisons, how to detect them, and eventually learn to make them. You will need poison recipes in order to create poisons [30] <10>
[Specialization at Rank 3]

-Bluff: (Int) Become better at telling lies (Does not necessarily mean others will trust you!) [35] <5>

-Stealth: (Dex) Be able to move about undetected. Includes moving silently and not being seen [35] <10>

-Stealing: (Dex) Be able to steal things from others. Size, weight, and condition of your target effect difficulty [20] <15>

-Pick-lock: (Int) Pick Locks to get into all the things that others don't want you to. Includes doors, chests, ect. [30] <10>

-Blacksmithing: (Str) [45] <10>
Learn to make your own weapons/armor/trinkets, eventually getting to the point of being able to make weapons that effectively increase stats. You must have the plans of the weapon that you want to make (Can get from other Blacksmiths ect.) [Specialization at Rank 3]

-Survival: (Int) [25] [5] Learn to survive in the wild, you can choose different fields. Rank 1 is general survival skills.
[Specialization at Rank 1]

-Medical: (Int) Learn to take care of wounds and heal others. Can be used for poisons, wounds, broken bones, ect. Must have materials [40] <15>

-Diplomacy: (Int) Similar to Charisma. You have a silver-tongue; You don’t tell lies, but you talk in a very convincing manner to get others to trust you [40] <5> (Does not mean you can lie well!)

-Riding: (Str) Ride Mounts [20] <5>

-Track: (Int) Track People, animals, and other creatures [30] <10>

-Search: (Int) Notice things not normally seen. This includes hidden doors, small gestures another person does (Either subconciously or conciously), ect. [20] <10>

-Toss Weapon: (Dex) Toss small items such as daggers, clubs, ect. [30] <10>

-Barter: (Int) Get more ‘bang’ for your buck. You can get items from merchants for cheaper [30] <10>

-Identify: (Int) Be able to identify items [40] <15>

-Rune Reading: (Int) Be able to read runes. This also includes the ability to attempt to understand the function of workings (Runes that preform techniques) [40] <10>

-Martial Arts: (Str) Be able to punch and kick in a fight [30] <10>
Rank 1: Punch and Kick ok
Rank 2: Punch and Kick Well avoid others' unarmed attack easier
Rank 3: Punch strong and Kick strong
{Specialize @ 3}

-Fletching: (Int) Learn to make your own arrows. You can create custom arrows with acid inside the head, ect. at a certain rank [30] <10>

-Intimidate: (Int) Be very scarey and subconciously force others to do your bidding [40] <5>

-Cooking: (Int) Learn to cook foods. Some foods will provide stat bonuses for limited times. Need recipies. [30] <5>

-Preform(Sing): (Int) Makes it so that you can sing, the higher ranks you have the more adept you become (Able to sing with instruments, ect.). Typically those without this skill are tone deaf. [25] <10>

-Preform(Instrument): (Int) Makes it so that you can preform an instrument. You can only choose one type of instrument, such as lute. Higher ranks result in better melodies, able to time songs with other singers/players and events around you. Without this skill you cannot play. [25] <10>

-Preform(Dance): (Int) Makes it so that you can dance. The higher ranks you have the more tricky/exotic things you can dance [25] <10>

Passive Skills

-Toughness: (End) Receive less damage from attacks (+1 natural Armor per level) [35] <10>

-Sense Motive: (Int) This allows you to interpret the true motive behind someone's speech and their actions. This *baisically* has a chance to give a negative rank to your opponent's bluff, diplomacy, and intimidate skills used on you. This skill is not needed to see through a lie, or be unaffected by diplomacy and intimidate. [45] <15>

-Vow of Empty Hands: Special. See Skill Specialization Thread

-Biology: (Int) Learn about biological makeup of humans and animals, learn where to strike as well as eventually pressure points making you able to deal more damage. (-1 to your opponent's Natural armor per level.) [35] <10>

-Tumble: (Dex) Jump, flip, ect. be able to move around easily (can increase dodge chance) [35] <10>

-Accuracy: (Dex) Be able to focus on your opponents, increases your Hit stat [35] <10>

-Dual Wielding Proficiency: (Dex) Be able to use two weapons at once. Weapons must be single handed (No double handed weapons) and you must have proficiency in those weapons. [??] <??>


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If there is any other skills you think should be added, or you feel a skill should be modified, just pm me or post here.

[Raisha]

Why don't you have a skill for Research (getting contacts to help you find history of things) or Teaching (how well you teach, costs more depending on how well you teach)? Those seem to be usefull, and might help people in the Element Clan or those who have good Techniques and want to share them.

[Blackhawk]

Hmm, I can see a skill for research, but generally I had a teaching system, so that the teacher gained some exp for teaching and the student gained the weapon proficiency/technique, time would be determined by how complex the technique/weapon was.

BUt if you guys want a teaching skill (Make the time shorter I suppose) I'll add it in.

[Will]

Research skill is good. Should be automatic with Elemental Clanners.

Since there aren't any Apprentice rules anymore, I don't know how you'd do a Teaching skill.

[Spoit]

Careful about skill spread. If you divide everything up too much then you'll probably need to reprice everything from scratch. Right now it's ~120 tp to get to lvl 3 in most skills, which means that most characters have enough to specialize in one or two (unless you're a psychotic shadow clanner who insists on being level 3 in every single theiving skil...).

If you do have a research skill, I'd think that'd be more of a skill clan skill rather than elemental since the skill clan already has 3 clan powers about gathering information from networking while the elemenal clanners are sorta...new england liberal ivory tower intellectuals.

[Blackhawk]

Ooh! Good idea! I may just make clan skills... skills that aren't nessesary but can help in certain situations! ^_^

[Nightblade]

What about a Perform skill?

[Blackhawk]

Will do, the skill will only be fore singing/playing instruments, not acting (What would be more bluff and diplomacy)

[Nightblade]

What they do in DnD (hesitant to say that) is that you must take a Perform skill for each type of Perform.

Perform (Sing)
Perform (Dance)
Perform (Comedy)
etc

[Spoit]

Really? I could have sworn that you choose a new type of perfomance for ech rank of perform...

[Nightblade]

They changed it, you take it like craft now (those damn bastards =S)

[Blackhawk]

ok, I'll add a preform (sing) skill then,

[Blackhawk]

New Skills

Preform(Sing): (Int) [25] <10>
Makes it so that you can sing, the higher ranks you have the more adept you become (Able to sing with instruments, ect.). Typically those without this skill are tone deaf.

Preform(Instrument): (Int) [25] <10>
Makes it so that you can preform an instrument. You can only choose one type of instrument, such as lute. Higher ranks result in better melodies, able to time songs with other singers/players and events around you. Without this skill you cannot play.

Sense Motive: (Int) [45] <15>
This allows you to interpret the true motive behind someone's speech and their actions. This *baisically* has a chance to give a negative rank to your opponent's bluff, diplomacy, and intimidate skills used on you. This skill is not needed to see through a lie, or be unaffected by diplomacy and intimidate.

[Blackhawk]

Added the fact that Rune Reading allows the user to attempt to understand the function of workings in items/weapons/ect. by reading the runes of the workings. Very useful if you are trying to identify the properties of an item that identify itself cannot pinpoint.