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Skills

Skills are a mechanic. They are the representation of a Character's training and knowledge in broad fields of study and physical expertise.

Quick Reference

Skill Descriptions

Athletics

Stat: Brawn

How well your Character can apply their strength, whether it be running climbing or fist fighting Athletics is the Skill for the job.

 

Coordination

Stat: Agility

The measure of your Character's dextrous abilities, Checks that would prompt Coordination often involve fine motor control, acts such as aiming moderate to small sized weapons, picking a lock/pocket, or grabbing something at just the right moment.

 

Sense

Stat: Intuition

A measure of your Character's ability to take in their surroundings and find what they're looking for. Often prompted for when trying to perceive hidden foes, locate obscured objects, or get a read on a situation.

 

Knowledge - Material

Primary Stat: Smarts

A measure of your Character's understanding of the material world be it metals, organics, structures, or formations.

 

Natural

Stat: Wits

Your Character's ability to understand and interact with the natural world, ranging from covering tracks to mending a simple wound, most things of an organic or undeveloped nature are covered by the Natural Skill.

 

Magic

Primary Stat: Wits

How astrally skilled your Character is, anything to do with magic is covered by this skill, from summoning spirits to hurling raw elements to unravelling carefully crafted spells.

 

Tech

Primary Stat: Wits

A measure of your Character's technical knowhow and aptitude, not just mechanical engines and hydraulic pistons but vast computer systems and Cyberware are all covered by this Skill, if its more advanced than rubbing two sticks together its likely Tech.

 

Knowledge - Astral

Primary Stat: Smarts

How well your Character understands the [Astral Realm] and its impacts on the Meat Space, unravel and categorise the magics before you, consider and understand magical beasts and their effects.

 

Socialise

Stat: Panache

The measure of your Character's ability in social situations, how well they can convince, decieve, deny, charm, or otherwise achieve goals with other beings through communication. Reading others and their true intentions.

 

Study

Primary Stat: Smarts

A measure of your Character's skill in absorbing information, be it sitting in a library devouring paragraphs of text or drifting through a crime scene picking up on each little detail, putting them all together to find the answer.

 

Savvy

Primary Stat: Wits

How well your Character can see what needs to be seen, that just right feeling where you know the answer lies right inside that cupboard. how in tune with the streets you are.

 

Knowledge - Social

Primary Stat: Smarts

How well educated your Character is on the minutiae of social interactions, reading people and understanding where they stand in social hierarchies, seeing the delicate webs of relationships and how they connect.