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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6063093" data-attributes="member: 92511">hmmm. Lots of good points here...This seems like a good place to run what I'm thinking of as an ideal skill list passed a few discerning eyes. No threadjack intended and if it seems that way, I can always post it as a sepaate thread...I can't say what the playtest holds. But this is, basically, what I'm looking at using/have found get used the most (in my experience). I think it is (for me) pleasingly concise while still covering a good array of things that players might want their character to be "good" at. Does this, for you all, span too far into the "too broad" and/or "too specific" and/or "unnecessary"? Too short? Too long? To vague? Missing X?Non-Weapon Skills                      [what ability to use for a check, some depend on the situation]Acrobatics [Dex. or Str.]:This skill includes all feats of gymnastics, climbing, jumping, and tumbling. Animal Handling [Wis.]: This skill aids how “good” the PC is dealing with animals. Appraisal [Int. or Wis.]: This skill involves the PC’s knowledge and estimation of an item’s worth and/or abilities.Athletics [Str.]: This skill applies to such activities as involve the PC’s physical strength and fitness. Combat Sense [Int. or Wis.]: This skill involves the PC’s alertness and a kind of ‘sixth sense’ in noticing or avoiding trouble.Disarm Device [Dex. or Int.]: This skill involves the PC’s ability to dismantle, or at least make nonfunctional, a mechanical device, most commonly locks and traps.Disguise [Int. or Cha.]: This skill applies to such activities as involve the PC’s ability to mask their appearance, even up close, when in plain view.Endurance [Con.]:  This skill relates to all activities that apply to the PC’s constitution: resisting disease or poison, acting in extreme temperatures, etc... Forgery [Dex. or Int.]: This skill applies to the PC’s ability to create and discern fraudulent materials.Gather Information [Cha. or Wis.]: This skill applies to the PC’s ability to find things out that others may or may not be willing to share. Healing [Wis.]: This skill applies to the PC’s ability to provide simple first aid and medical techniques to themselves and others. Insight [Wis. or Cha]:This skill involves the PC’s ability to “read between the lines”, accurately gage reactions, read body language, and/or reasonably “hear” and follow their instincts, “listening to their gut”, as it were. Intimidate [Str. or Cha.]: This skill relates to all activities of the PC’s attempts to appear (or actually be) imposing or threatening to othersLeadership [Cha.]:This skill involves the PC’s ability to be commanding, think strategically and, to a degree, exert your will over others without, necessarily, being intimidating.Lore [Int. or Wis.]: Lore skills are a PCs familiarity and knowledge of a given topic. The PC receives +1 to any rolls that are related to their area of interest. Common choices for Lore skills include:--Arcane--Geography: Local, Regional, or World (1SP each)--History: Local, Regional, World, Ancient (1SP each)--Language (1SP each)--Nature--Religion--Other: some other specific topic: Heraldry, Herbalism, Navigation, Specific Culture, etc...Perception [Wis. or Int.]: This skill applies to a PC’s senses and their ability to notice things through them. Performance [variable by art form]: Like the Lore skills, the Performance skill encompasses a variety of talents. All rolls to perform these talents are made with +1. Successful rolls might be used to make money/get paid or distract opponents...or just for fun. Common choices for Performance skills include:--Acting (comedic or dramatic): [Cha.]--Dance (1 cultural group per skill): [Dex. or Str.]--Instrument (1 instrument per skill): [Int. or Dex.]--Oration: the PC is practiced with public speaking, recitation, storytelling, etc... [Cha. or Int.]--Singing: [Cha.]Persuasion [Cha. or Wis.]: This skill involves the PC’s effectiveness in social interactions including negotiations, pursuading others and/or attempts at bluffing/lying.Search [Int.]: This skill involves the PC’s competency when conducting searches for just about anything:  traps, secret doors,  hidden compartments, noticing treasure in a pile of trash, etc... Sleight of Hand [Dex.]: This skill applies to a PC’s ability to use nimble-fingers and quick reflexes in conjunction with misdirecting attention to a variety of effects.Stealth [Dex. or Int.]: This skill involves the PC’s competency when trying to be sneak, hide or otherwise go unnoticed.Streetwise [Cha. or Int.]: This skill  grants the PC knowledge and ability to navigate urban areas. Survival [Con. or Wis.]: This skill applies to the PC’s ability to find necessities (food, shelter, etc...) and navigate in wilderness or harmful environments.Tracking [Int.]: This skill involves the PC’s ability to find and follow trails and tracks left by a creature's passage.Weapon Mastery [Str. or Dex.]: This skill reflects the PC's ability and training with a weapon they would not normally be able to use. This can be applied like "weapon specialization"   for classes who can't normally specialize in a weapon and/or for those PC concepts that step outside of class weapon norms (letting a mage use a sword but in all other ways remaining a mage, for example. Gandalf, anyone?) without requiring multi-classing.I'm gonna guess Defcon1 isn't going to like it. lol. But what the heck, thought I'd see what people thought.--SD</blockquote>

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