Skill Cards

Fighting with hand-held weapons in close quarters: blades, clubs, axes, spears, batons, shields, improvised weapons, or similar arms.

Attacking at distance with bows, firearms, thrown weapons, slings, crossbows, energy weapons, or Universe-specific ranged arms.

Fighting with fists, kicks, grapples, natural weapons, shoves, holds, tackles, and improvised bodily force.

Climbing, swimming, jumping, sprinting, lifting, breaking, forcing movement, and other strength-driven physical effort.

Resisting fatigue, pain, poison, disease, starvation, suffocation, harsh environments, and prolonged strain.

Balance, tumbling, quick reactions, dodging hazards, slipping restraints, catching yourself while falling, and precise body control under pressure.

Moving unseen or unheard, hiding, shadowing, masking tracks, blending into cover, and avoiding notice.

Noticing details, spotting hidden things, hearing danger, reading immediate surroundings, and catching what others miss. Perception answers: "Do I notice it?"

Street codes, criminal networks, black markets, rumors, gangs, fences, smugglers, illicit services, risky contacts, and finding illicit goods or information outside formal channels.

Lockpicking, sleight of hand, disabling simple security, planting or lifting objects, escaping bonds, bypassing traps, and covert physical manipulation.

Tracking, foraging, navigation, shelter, weather sense, wilderness travel, animal signs, reading and calming and handling ordinary animals, and staying alive away from safety.

Building, repairing, modifying, maintaining, sabotaging, appraising, or improvising objects, tools, structures, machines, and practical works.

Recalling history, cultures, places, lineages, institutions, laws, legends, customs, factions, and the shape of the known world. Also used to interpret clues and piece together what something means once it has been noticed.

Treating injury and illness, diagnosing conditions, stabilizing the wounded, aiding recovery, understanding living bodies, and identifying medical risks.

Understanding natural laws, technical principles, experiments, analysis, engineering theory, chemistry, physics, astronomy, computing, or Universe equivalents.

Winning people over through warmth, friendliness, humor, appeal, flirtation, sincerity, style, or likability. Charm also covers performance, oratory, music, art, and any attempt to entertain, move, or please an audience.

Lying, disguising intent, misdirection, false identities, scams, feints, forgeries of behavior, and concealing the truth.

Threats, interrogation, menace, pressure, dominance, cold resolve, and forcing compliance through fear or force of will.

Commanding, rallying, organizing, inspiring, directing groups, establishing authority, and holding a group together under pressure.

Bargaining, diplomacy, trade, compromise, contracts, favors, treaties, and getting terms both sides can accept.

Driving, riding, piloting, steering, maneuvering, controlling, or safely handling vehicles, mounts, ships, starcraft, machines, mechs, or Universe-specific control systems under pressure.

Riding covers staying on, steering and keeping a mount under control (The Stable, Riding). Its characteristic is Agility. Calming, reading, feeding and doctoring an animal stays with Survival. A wagon, coach or freight team is driven with Operate; Riding is used only when the team panics.