Skills and Expertise
Comprehensive guide to all 6 primary skills and their 12 areas of expertise
The Six Primary Skills
Might
This stat embodies raw physical power, resilience, and combat prowess. Characters with high Might excel at feats of strength, endure punishment with fortitude, and wield weapons with deadly efficiency.
Athletics
You excel at lifting, climbing, jumping incredible distances, and maintaining exceptional stamina and enduring prolonged physical exertion.
Fortitude
You gain increased resistance to physical damage, shrug off fatigue more easily, and possess an unwavering willpower that bolsters your resistance to mental manipulation.
Weaponry
You can execute complex combat maneuvers, unleash devastating attacks with increased precision, and potentially unlock unique weapon techniques specific to your chosen fighting style.
Agility
This stat represents swiftness, dexterity, and reflexes. Characters with high Agility move with lightning speed, dodge attacks with grace, and aim with exceptional precision.
Acrobatics
You can contort your body to squeeze through tight spaces, leap across perilous gaps with ease, and potentially even reduce fall damage through masterful acrobatics.
Marksmanship
You can strike targets with pinpoint accuracy from afar, potentially ignore wind and cover modifiers, and possibly even master specialized techniques like called shots or rapid-fire maneuvers.
Evasion
You can dodge incoming attacks with uncanny grace, anticipate enemy movements, and potentially even utilize advanced maneuvers like disarming strikes or counters.
Knowledge
This stat represents the vast accumulation of learned information and scholarly expertise. Characters with high Knowledge possess a wealth of knowledge about the world, history, and various disciplines.
Lore
You can recall forgotten lore, decipher ancient texts, and potentially gain insights into specific cultures or historical events, allowing you to navigate social situations and uncover hidden secrets.
Medicine
You can treat injuries with exceptional skill, potentially identify diseases, and possibly even concoct potent potions or antidotes for both physical and psychological conditions.
Scholar
Depending on your chosen field (history, engineering, arcana, etc.), you could gain access to specialized libraries, decipher complex texts, or craft powerful artifacts related to your area of expertise.
Awareness
This stat represents keen observation, sharp senses, and insightful deduction. Characters with high Awareness excel at noticing details, piecing together clues, and understanding the motivations of others.
Investigation
You excel at finding hidden objects, following faint trails, and piecing together disparate details to form a clear picture, allowing you to unravel conspiracies and expose hidden truths.
Perception
You can spot hidden creatures or traps with exceptional ease, perceive minute changes in your surroundings, and potentially even gain a premonition of imminent danger.
Insight
You can see through attempts at deception, gauge emotional states with remarkable accuracy, and potentially even predict a person's next move based on subtle tells.
Performance
This stat represents the ability to influence others through charisma, social skills, and captivating presence. Characters with high Performance excel at persuasion, deception, and captivating audiences.
Diplomacy
You can build trust and rapport with others, forge alliances, and potentially even sway opinions through persuasive arguments, securing favorable deals and building strong relationships with influential figures.
Distraction
You can employ sleight of hand, dazzling displays, or well-placed words to distract others, create opportunities for yourself or your allies, and potentially even sow confusion among your enemies.
Deception
You can craft convincing lies, concoct elaborate stories, and potentially even manipulate people, bluffing your way out of danger or gathering information through subterfuge.
Subtlety
This stat represents the ability to operate in the shadows, remaining unseen and unheard. Characters with high Subtlety excel at infiltration, navigating treacherous environments, and acquiring things through finesse.
Infiltration
You can move silently through shadows, exploit weaknesses in security systems, and potentially even create diversions to distract guards, invaluable for scouting enemy positions and carrying out daring operations.
Tinkering
You can build ingenious tools and devices, bypass complex locks with ease, and potentially even rewire existing machinery to your advantage, useful for disarming traps and creating custom tools.
Pickpocket
You can lift valuables from unsuspecting targets, navigate tight spaces unseen, and potentially even bypass rudimentary security measures for acquiring key items or planting evidence.
Typical Character Starting Allocation
Typically a character starts with 3 skills and 3 expertise, but that can be changed by the Storyteller. These can also be chosen as random dice rolls for a more chaotic experience!