Nexus Minor Skills

[garrowolf]

Okay I was going back and forth about the concept of minor skills but I decided to go with it after all. Basically all the major skills have a series of feats under each one that expands the use of those skills. This is the core of the system. Minor Skills are those skills that don't fall into that paradigm that well. They are things like crafts, professions, musical skills, interests, and languages.
My breakthrough came when I realized that I could do this by tech level and make it a lot more interesting and less cumbersome. Of course skills from earlier tech levels would carry over to the next tech level so they don't need to be listed again.

So I wanted to get some ideas from everyone here. Just pick a tech level and put some suggestions.

Nexus Tech Levels - Nexus D20 Wiki

TL0 Neolithic Age
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Butcher – You can clean, dress, and carve up a large animal for the best cuts without waste. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Cooking – Your cooking is good and can feed several. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Furrier – You can make, repair, and clean fur and fur garments. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Dancing – You know how to shake it. [/FONT]

TL1 Bronze Age


TL2 Iron Age


TL3 Middle Ages


TL4 Age of Sail


TL5 Industrial Revolution


TL6 Pulp Age


TL7 Atomic Age


TL8 Information Age


TL9 Cyber Age


TL10 Fusion Age

 

[garrowolf]

any ideas?

 

[jonesy]

Busy, busy, busy. I've barely had time to check my email recently.

My breakthrough came when I realized that I could do this by tech level and make it a lot more interesting and less cumbersome.

Wouldn't that make it more cumbersome? And do you really need to state that someone can cook as a skill on their skill list?

 

[garrowolf]

Sorry I actually changed this a little since then. I decided to make it by tech level groups (Low Tech, Medium Tech, High Tech, Extreme Tech).
Basically I've got a few skills that are floating around the system that don't fit into a Major Skill very well.
For example I tried to create a Crafting Skill. Each feat was a different craft. The problem was that it caused a character like a Blacksmith to pick up a bunch of crafts that he may never use just to progress. Then I couldn't figure out Focus or Mastery feats and since the whole point of the structure of the skills was to remove those +2 bonus feats I ran out of things to put there. I couldn't think of anything to do with them.
I had sort of put it aside and stuffed them into survival but then I thought about it. My wife is a great jewelrymaker but she wouldn't last a minute in the woods on her own.
Plus I wanted to provide an easy way to customize your character even more. And it will help me fix up the Archetypes that I have been working on.

 

[garrowolf]

This is what I have now:


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] Minor Skills cover things like Professions, Crafts, and Interests. Specific languages fall under minor skills as well, though you don't need to bother writing down that you speak your native language. Language groups fall under the Academics skill. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] Each level of a minor skill costs a feat. So one feat gives you a Trained Minor Skill, two gives you a Focused, etc. There is no level limit on Minor skills. You can be a Master in a Minor Skill at level 1 if you want to spend the feats. The other difference from Major Skills is that there are no feats under them. You can write in Minor Skills in the blank skill slots on the character sheet. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] Minor Skills can be taken during character creation to fill out the number of starting basic skills. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Low Tech Minor Skills[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Acting – You know how to perform various plays. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Armorer – You can make good leather or metal armor. You must be a blacksmith to make the metal pieces.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Baker[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] – You are good with making bread and related foods. [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Blacksmith – You can shape metal for weapons, tools, or even nails. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Bowyer – You can make a good bow. Fletching (arrow making) is including[/FONT]
Brewing – You can made ales, beers, and mead.
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Butcher – You can clean, dress, and carve up a large animal for the best cuts without waste. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Chariot Racing – You know a lot about chariot racing and can successfully bet on them. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Cooking – Your cooking is good and can feed several. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Dice Games – You know how to play various kinds of dice games and bet on them. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Distiller – You are good at distilling spirits such as vodka and brandy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Farmer – You can grow crops on a scale to sell produce as a business. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Furrier – You can make, repair, and clean fur and fur garments. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Gardener – You are good at making attractive gardens that produce useful food. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Glassmaker – You can craft glass into containers or windows. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Horse Racing – You know a lot about race horses and can successfully bet on them. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Jeweler – You can fashion jewelry from gems and metal[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Lyre – You know how to play a old greek lyre[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Merchant – You know how to buy and sell goods. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Painting – You know how to paint[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Pan Flute – You know how to play one[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Papermaking – You can make paper[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Potter - You know how to make pots. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Sailmaking – You can make sails that will last[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Sculpting – You know how to create sculptures[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Stonemason – You can build a sturdy building from stone [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Storyteller – You can tell a good story [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Tailor – You know how to make and repair clothes. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Teaching – You know how to pass on knowledge to another person. Anyone can teach someone the basics of a skill that they know at trained or better but you can teach someone a skill that you have up to the lower of that skill and your Teaching skill. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Weapon Smith – You can make a fine weapon. You must be a blacksmith as well at the same level. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Woodworking – You know how to craft things out of wood such as cabinets. [/FONT]




[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Medium Tech Minor Skills[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Card Games – You know how to play various card games and win. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Gunsmith [/FONT]


Need more suggestions here







[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]High Tech Minor Skills[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Football [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Baseball [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Car Racing [/FONT]

 

[jonesy]

Hmm. So they would basically be an aid for players to writing their characters background to which they could then reference during gameplay? That could work. Wouldn't be cumbersome either.

But it is a huge job getting a list of all of them set up first, like you are doing. You are talking about every skill humans do.

 

[garrowolf]

Well a lot of skills are already covered under the existing skill list. I'm trying to give people some ideas.

When are you planning on starting your game? That way I know when I need to have this stuff up.

Also I was hoping you would have some ideas for the medium tech skills.

 

[jonesy]

When are you planning on starting your game? That way I know when I need to have this stuff up.

At the rate things are going we won't have time until after Christmas.

Also I was hoping you would have some ideas for the medium tech skills.

From the example you have there wouldn't medium skills just be the same as the low ones, only more successful?

Low: Weapon Smith. You can make a weapon given the proper parts, and an equal rank in the appropriate forging skill. You can also maintain a weapon at normal level.

Medium: Same as low, but you can also modify existing weapons into better ones. You can maintain your weapons so that they get a temporary accuracy bonus.

High: Same as medium, but the accuracy bonus is permanent (when it's your weapon), and all related costs (monetary and time requirement) are reduced.

 

[garrowolf]

hmmm that would introduce a new system at this point. Right now I just need to fill out the skill list such as things like Piano for medium tech, video games for high tech, etc. I've just been staring at it for so long I can't think any longer.

I am going to go back to fix up many of the archetypes with this change as well but you can create characters all day long already. Plus you don't have to generate all the NPC stats anyway. Just check out the mook rules under the GM section.

 

[garrowolf]

How about this then?

[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Craft Skills [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Armorer – You can make good leather or metal armor. You must be a blacksmith to make the metal pieces.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Baker[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif] – You are good with making bread and related foods. [/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Blacksmith – You can shape metal for weapons, tools, or even nails. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Bowyer – You can make a good bow. Fletching (arrow making) is including[/FONT]
Brewing – You can made ales, beers, and mead.
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Butcher – You can clean, dress, and carve up a large animal for the best cuts without waste. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Calligraphy – You can make beautiful writings. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Cooking – Your cooking is good and can feed several. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Distiller – You are good at distilling spirits such as vodka and brandy. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Farmer – You can grow crops on a scale to sell produce as a business. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Furrier – You can make, repair, and clean fur and fur garments. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Gardener – You are good at making attractive gardens that produce useful food. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Glassmaker – You can craft glass into containers or windows. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Gunsmith – You can craft a quality firearm. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Jeweler – You can fashion jewelry from gems and metal[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Leatherworking – You know how to make good leather goods. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Painting – You know how to paint[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Papermaking – You can make paper[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Photography – You know how to take a good photograph[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Poetry – You can compose poetry. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Potter - You know how to make pots. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Sailmaking – You can make sails that will last[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Sculpting – You know how to create sculptures[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Stonemason – You can build a sturdy building from stone [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Tailor – You know how to make and repair clothes. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Weapon Smith – You can make a fine weapon. You must be a blacksmith as well at the same level. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Woodworking – You know how to craft things out of wood such as cabinets. [/FONT]






[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Hobby Skills[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Baseball – You know a lot about Baseball[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Car Racing – You know a lot about Car Racing. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Card Games – You know how to play various card games[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Chariot Racing – You know a lot about chariot racing [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Dice Games – You know how to play various kinds of dice games [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Football – You know a lot about Football [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Horse Racing – You know a lot about race horses [/FONT]




[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Languages[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]English [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Spanish[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]German[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Elvish[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Orcish[/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Performance Skills[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Acting – You know how to perform various plays. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Fire Eating – You know how to dazzle a crowd with tricks with fire. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Harpsichord – You can play the harpsichord[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Lyre – You know how to play a old greek lyre[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Pan Flute – You know how to play one[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Piano – You can play the piano[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Storyteller – You can tell a good story [/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Professions[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Innkeeper – You know how to run an Inn. [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Merchant – You know how to buy and sell goods.[/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]Teaching – You know how to pass on knowledge to another person. Anyone can teach someone the basics of a skill that they know at trained or better but you can teach someone a skill that you have up to the lower of that skill and your Teaching skill. [/FONT]