Skill Detail: All

Alchemy is a little bit of science and a little bit of magic. Alchemists can identify substances and create potions and antidotes. Alchemy is expensive and every attempt usually costs money. Alchemy is a very time consuming activity, taking at least an hour, sometimes days or weeks, depending on the project and the materials at hand. A separate appendix is devoted solely to this skill.

In certain circumstances, the character may fail this skill and not be aware of it. If that possibility exists, the game keeper should roll the skill check for the player instead

Animal handling is the character's ability to train and control domestic animals. Using this skill, the character can also tame and train wild animals and creatures.

A simple task is easy to perform for the animal and uses its natural talents in a way the animal can understand. An animal may only know 5 simple tasks for each point of REA (a dog has 2 or 3 points). An animal can only learn 2 complex tasks for each point of REA. Complex tasks are any task that takes more than a minute and has multiple objectives (such as training a monkey to sneak into a house and steal gems and other shiny objects). All simple and complex tasks must be approved with the game keeper.

Appraisal allows the character to determine the value of an item, helping to sort out quality from the absolutely worthless junk. An accurate appraisal requires up close inspection of the object, if not hands on examination.

Synergy Skills: Appraisal of any item that has something directly in common with another skill the character possesses can grant benefits. For example, an archer who finds a fine bow will more likely be more accurate than a gem cutter looking at the same bow.

This is essentially a trade/craft skill that is specialized towards the visual arts. The character must choose an emphasis. Common art types are drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, digital art, etc. Some art types are not acceptable for some campaigns.

For every three levels of this skill, the character can add a new style or sub-skill to her repertoire. Additional sub-skills are treated as if they were three levels lower than the previous sub skill. Thus, a character with a Skill of 12 in painting could also have drawing at 9, sculpture at 6, and wood cutting at 3.

Skill checks with this skill are handled differently than most other skills. Although the roll is handled the same as most other skills, results are interpreted differently. Every piece of art requires a standard skill check, but the results are compared to the chart, not pitted against the difficulty.

• 59 or lower: poor quality.
• 60 - 79: Mediocre quality.
• 80 - 99: Decent quality.
• 100 - 119: Good Quality.
• 120 - 139: Very good quality.
• 140 - 159: Excellent quality.
• 160 and higher: Wondrous.

This is a character's ability to climb sheer surfaces. A successful climb check indicates that the character can move approximately 2 to 3 times her height up the surface. A failed check indicates that the character makes no progress but does not fall. Failing a roll by 30 or more points indicates that the character has fallen. Armor mobility penalties apply to the use of this skill. It is impossible to climb a perfectly smooth surface without handholds or a rope anchored at the top.

Concentration is a character's ability to maintain focus when performing an action that requires full attention, particularly spell casting or while taking careful aim. Normally, a character will have no difficulty performing those actions, but sometimes something happens that can ruin concentration. Being injured, surprised, or distracted by dangerous activity around can cause a character to lose concentration, losing aim or causing a spell to fizzle out and fail. By making a concentration test, the character won't lose a spell or careful aim bonuses if he or she is hit.

Deceit is the ability to use language, body language, and distraction in order to get a target to believe the unbelievable. In short, lying and bending the truth. All Deceit checks are opposed checks against the target's Determine Motive skill. Depending upon the target's beliefs and the plausibility of the lie or bluff, the target will get bonuses or penalties to their check. These modifiers can be cumulative, if such modifiers are appropriate.

Success means that the target either believes the story and does not act unfavorably towards the story because it isn't that important to them. Failure means the target senses something is wrong or that they catch on to the story.

Determine motivation is a character's ability to determine deceit, lies, fast-talk and other socially manipulative actions. Determine motive can also be used to determine if an individual is action under his or her own actions or if he or she is being coerced. This skill is an active skill, requiring the concentration of the character.

Success indicates that the character senses something is either right or wrong, whichever is more appropriate. Failure indicates that the character detects nothing out of the ordinary. Critical failure indicates that the character draws the exact opposite conclusion that would have been correct.

Disarming and creating traps is representative of limited knowledge of various machinery, clockwork, and magical forms. It also refers to a character's ability to perform sabotage effectively. Creating, disarming, and sabotaging can take a significant amount of time, depending upon the situation and desired effects.

This is a representation of a character's attunement to a particular magical or psionic form such as Fire Elementalism, Conjuring, Telekinesis, Telepathy, or Manipulation. Before a character can even begin to use any magical or psionic abilities, she must have at least one rank in an appropriate Discipline. Higher ranks in a Discipline reduce the amount of stamina used while spell casting, increase spell power, and allow access to more powerful abilities. More detail is included in the section on Magic and Psychic abilities.

Optional Rule: Some GMs may choose to play with a simplified rule where characters possess a single discipline rank which governs all of their spell casting abilities for each of their magical disciplines instead of individual discipline skill ranks for each discipline. The purchase of new disciplines is more expensive under this rule.

Optional Rule: Some GMs may choose to play with a simplified rule where characters possess a single discipline casting rank which governs all of their spell casting abilities for each of their magical disciplines instead of individual casting skill ranks for each discipline. The purchase of new disciplines is more expensive under this rule.

The character is skilled with disguises. Difficulty will vary depending upon what the disguise is intended to do. Disguise checks are opposed checks versus the viewer's Spot or Determine Motive skill (whichever is appropriate). Creating and donning a disguise takes at least several minutes, if not several hours, depending upon the complexity.

Ethereal accuracy is the character's skill which indicates how much control the character has over his or her psionic or magical skills in which aiming is a factor (such as projectile spells). When casting a many spells or using ranged magical items, the character must pit his or her Ethereal Accuracy against the target's DR, modified by range, if appropriate.

If there are multiple targets for one spell effect, each additional target beyond the first imposes a cumulative -20 AV penalty to the Ethereal Accuracy checks.

The character has learned the art of pulling a weapon in a pinch. This skill is used primarily by gunfighters and assassins.Fast draw has several effects on the character in combat.

• The character receives a +1 bonus to initiative per level of Fast Draw on the first round of combat if the character is not surprised and his enemies do not have their weapons drawn.
• If the character is caught by surprise without a weapon drawn or a combat stance set, the character can make a Fast Draw(Opponent's Reflexes + 50) test. Normally, surprised characters automatically go last in a round without rolling initiative. Success indicates that the character was able to react fast enough that he gets to roll initiative as normal.
• Normally, drawing a weapon counts as a major action. If a successful fast draw skill test is made (diff 100), the character can draw a single handed weapon as a free action. Drawing a two-handed weapon in this fashion requires a Fast Draw(120) test. Drawing two single handed weapons as a free action requires a Fast Draw(140) test.
• In a duel with ranged weapons, opposed Fast Draw checks determine who shoots first instead of standard initiative.

By feinting during combat, the character distracts his opponent and misleads him. A feint is an opposed Fient vs the defender's Determine Motive or highest melee skill AV, without adjustments. If the feint was successful, the attacker gains a +10 bonus to hit the target until the end of his actions, in addition to causing the target to lose any DR bonuses due to a high agility, shields, bracers, greaves, or the nimbleness HC against the first attack performed after the feint. A successful attack immediately after a successful feint can not be blocked, parried, or dodged.

This skill can only be used against sentient beings. Creatures of animal intelligence or lower are immune. Intelligent opponents eventually learn to watch out for feint attempts. Attempting multiple Feint attempts against the same target during a single combat grant the target a cumulative +10 bonus to resistance checks for each successive check. Someone who observes the attacker's combat style before combat gains a +5 bonus to the resisting checks per feint that he observed. Anyone who is fighting defensively gains a +20 AV bonus

The character is capable of performing essential first aid upon injured individual. First aid is also used to stabilize severe wounds that can get worse. First Aid takes several minutes to perform, thus it is usually impossible to perform First Aid during the heat of battle. More information is given in the chapter on Health and Damage.

Immediate Care: Immediate care must be performed within five minutes of injury. In the case of combat injuries, a recipient of immediate care can only benefit from one successful use of immediate care. Immediate care will heal a number of LW, MW, or SW equal to 1/3, 1/4, or 1/6 (rounded up) of the medic's skill respectively. As a matter of game balance, only one type of damage can be healed in this manner. Only damage suffered from the immediate combat or injury can be healed, so any extra healing is ignored.

Stabilize Wounds: Wound damage needs to be stabilized before it can begin healing. Usually this is important only for SW damage. If the character makes a successful First Aid check on a wounded individual to stabilize the wounds, she adds 1/2 of her first aid AV to the recipient's stabilization CON check.

Medicine: If the character also possesses the Medicine skill, the character's Medicine rank can be added to the character's First Aid rank when determining how much damage can be healed by immediate care.

The character is capable of identifying the animal and plant life of a region. Additionally, the character knows a lot about many animals and plants, including habitat, behavior, medical properties, and edible nature. The character must specify a terrain that the character has expertise in.

Forgery is used to create fake documents and letters. A forged document is handled differently from other skills. A document will have a rating determined by the skill roll modified by circumstances listed below. The Game Keeper will roll a 1d100 plus the AV value minus any modifiers of the forger's skill to determine the quality of the document.

When the document is observed, the reader must make a check with their own Forgery or Investigations skill (whichever is higher) against the quality of the forged document. Some modifiers that may affect the reader's check are indicated below. If the reader's check fails by 20 or more points, the reader has no idea that the document is a fake. If the check fails by less than 20 points, the document is mildly suspicious to the reader but is otherwise acceptable. If the reader makes his check by less than 20 points, he will detect something wrong with the document, perhaps requiring more information or a confirmation. If the reader makes his or her check by more than 20 points, the document is immediately recognized as a fake. The following modifiers assume that the reader is scrutinizing the document carefully.

The gymnastics skill is often used by circus performer and acrobats. The skill has a couple of uses that are good for adventuring. The other use of this skill will let the character use his or her gymnastics skill in place of her dodge skill in combat.

This skill can also be used in a fashion similar to the performance skill.

This skill is used to hide and conceal the character and objects. When the character is attempting to hide, she should roll a Hide test opposed by the Spot test of anyone looking for her. The adjustment for hide is determined by differently than most skills. Both size and agility affect a character's ability to hide effectively.

• Agility adjustment.
• Negative value of SIZ adjustment.

Lighting, multiple observers, or clothing can assist or hinder a character's attempt to hide. Sneaking through a trash-laden alleyway at night is much easier than sneaking across an open field in broad daylight. Noticing a creature that is attempting to hide requires a successful Spot skill check that exceeds the character's own stealth attempts.

• No cover: The character literally has no place to hide.
• Light cover: Hiding around a corner while trying to peak, hiding in a doorway (not behind a door), hiding behind something shorter or narrower than oneself, light foliage, hiding under a single blanket in a bed.
• Moderate cover: Moderate foliage with small gaps, a pile of blankets or clothing, hiding behind a door on the hinge side, hiding behind something approximately the same size as oneself.
• Good cover: Dense foliage with few gaps, a very large pile of blankets or clothing, hiding behind something larger than oneself.
• Complete cover: Hiding in an enclosed space, hiding behind a much larger object that does not allow any line of site from most angles.

Hunting/Fishing indicates that the character knows how to find game and fish. Difficulty of hunting and fishing is dependent upon several things. The frequency of hunting or fishing tests should depend on the area and type of game sought, but the most frequent tests should be no quicker than 1 hour. On average, hunting tests should be allowed twice per day, and fishing tests 4 times per day. Success indicates that the character found some game or caught some fish.

Influence is a special skill that represents a character's degree of influence within an organization. Oftentimes, a character is a member of the organization or they have a friend or five within. The higher the influence skill, the more important the connection. This skill must be role-played out, but it does give the Game Keeper an estimate of what resources the character has available to them. At character creation, the Game Keeper and player should discuss and determine what benefits the influence will have. Perhaps there is a one time favor or even a cheap outlet for ammo.

Example influence groups: Government agencies, the military, secret societies, local governments, trade organizations and associations, etc.

Low values in an influence usually indicate that a character merely has a contact within the organization. Scores between 6 and 12 indicate that the character is either a participating member , a retiree, or has very powerful friends. A score of 16 or more indicates that the character is probably a high ranking member or that the organization owes the character some big favors.

This skill is used to work the populace of a region for rumors, gossip, or even looking for specific information such as the location of a castle, cave, farm, individual, or rare item. Difficulty will vary depending on the information being sought. Often times, a little bit of money must change hands to procure important information, or at least a round or two drinks should be bought... it's just polite to do it that way. Any information gathering effort is bound to take a couple of hours, if not days or weeks, depending upon the information being sought. If the information or products being sought are more criminal or shady in nature, the skill Street Savvy might be more applicable. If this skill is used in place of street savvy, it is only half as effective.

Intimidation is the skill of forcing others to back down or even possibly do things against their will. Frequent use of this skill probably won't make the character any friends, whether the character uses social intimidation or physical intimidation. Intimidation tests are opposed checks versus the target's Resist Mental skill. The character adjusts the Intimidation roll according the situation. Strength or Size for physical situations, Willpower or Reasoning for more subtle and social situations. In any given intimidation situation, the target may receive bonuses for possessing special skills, knowledge, or combat prowess. For example, a powerful mage, although physically weak and frail, would be easily intimidated if it weren't for the fact that he has the confidence that his magic can handle most situations for him, thus giving him some bonuses. As a general rule, give a character or target a +1 AV bonus for each rank of any skill that may help them in a particular situation, but only if the target is aware of those skills in some fashion. In the case of combat skills, use only the character's or target's highest combat skill, not all combat skills added together. Other factors to take into consideration are outnumbering, odds, and repercussions. A guard who knows that he will be executed for violating his post is more likely to take his chances with a group of adventurers than a bar room bully will.

The investigations skill includes a wide range of knowledge and skills, ranging from forensic knowledge and proper investigative procedure to suspect profiling and questioning. Characters with this skill are also more likely to notice things that are suspicious or out of place. Investigating the scene of a crime takes at least several minutes, if not hours or days.

Synergy skills: Each of the following skills could be synergetic in the proper context. Medicine, Weapon Skills, Appraisal, Gunsmithing, Linguistics, Tracking, Flora/Fauna, Herbalism, Alchemy, Forgery, Lock Picking, Craft (lock smithing), Research, Spellcraft.

The character has extensive knowledge on a particular topic, which must be declared when this skill is taken: Religion, chemistry, astronomy, mathmatics, physics, undead lore, regional and political events, regional lay of the land, history, etc. The possibilities are nearly infinite, although this skill can not duplicate any other existing skills. The difficulty of skill checks on this skill are based upon how obscure the information is.

The listen skill is a measure of how well a character can focus her ability to hear things. It is used to hear someone sneaking up from behind or to listen through doors. This skill is also used to identify or focus on specific conversations in noisy environments, such as eavesdropping on a conversation in a crowded bar. This skill can be a game keeper roll or player roll, at the game keeper's discretion.

Lock picking is the ability to pick locks, finesse combo locks, and solve puzzle locks. Lock picking attempts always take at least 3 rounds (1/2 minute) or longer. Picking a lock requires that the character make a skill test against the quality of the lock. This skill also applies to modern campaigns for some of the more advanced electronic locks, though those types of locks require the appropriate type of equipment in order to pick.

The character has studied one or more refined unarmed fighting techniques. Although the skill is more difficult to learn than brawling, it allows characters to perform combat skills and maneuvers with easier difficulty levels, and allows a few exclusive moves. For more details, read the section on unarmed combat.

For purposes of healing, a character with the Medicine skill may tend to the wounds of another. When this is done, a skill test is made against the difficulty of the wound type. If successful, the character heals at a rate equivalent to their Constitution plus the caregiver's Medicine skill. Failure indicates that the character simply heals as normal. Botching indicates that the treatment was counter productive and the patient takes 1 point of that type of damage due to infections or wound aggravation. One care giver can tend to up to 5 patients out in the field or up to 10 patients in a care giving setting such as a hospital. For each additional patient, the doctor suffers a +5 TAV to all skill checks.

If the character possesses the First Aid skill, this skill can be added to the value of First Aid for purposes of determining how much damage can be healed during immediate care. This does not add to the character's First Aid AV when rolling the skill check.

Through the use of meditation, the character can also gain benefits, such as the ability to boost strength and ignore pain temporarily.

This skill is actually a collection of sub-skills. When taken, the character selects one melee weapon in which they are specialized in. Each different type of weapon is its own skill. Thus, Light Club, Battle Axe, Bladed Staff, Long sword and Dagger are each their own skill, requiring points to be spent on each.

Synergy Skills: If a character has Melee Weapon skills in two very similar weapons (such as two different sword types), the two skills are synergetic to each other.

Related Skills: Weapon Group: Melee

This skill is used when a character attempts to move silently and avoid being heard or noticed by hearing or creatures with tremorsense. When attempting to use this skill, the character rolls a Move Silently test opposed by any potential listeners' Listen skill. Both Size and Agility adjust a character's ability to move silently.

• Agility adjustment.
• Negative value of SIZ adjustment.

A character's ability to move silently can be hindered or assisted by armor, ground conditions, and background noise.

Performance is a character's ability to act, recite poetry, sing, dance, comedy, storytelling, play an instrument, etc. For every three levels of this skill, the character can add a new instrument or sub-skill to her repertoire. Additional sub-skills are treated as if they were three levels lower than the previous sub skill. Thus, a character with a Skill of 12 in Lute performance could also have Sing at 9, Guitar at 6, and Poetry at 3.

Skill checks with this skill are handled differently than most other skills. Although the roll is handled the same as most other skills, results are interpreted differently. Every performance requires a standard skill check, but the results are compared to the chart, not pitted against a difficulty.

The results should be modified according to the population and the general mood of the locale. Income from small communities will be meager, no matter how good the performance, although it is always possible that a good performance could earn a performer a free meal or possibly free lodging.

Negotiations is a representation of a character's etiquette, manners, bureaucratic know how, diplomatic approach, and a general way with words. Also, diplomatic characters will be able to get a feel for the local laws and customs with a little bit of talk and conversation. Persuasion is the ability to barter, negotiate, make a political impression, and to influence others.

Persuasion can be used for many things: bartering, requesting audience with an important official or citizen, pleading a case before a court, or requesting assistance from a ruler or political group. Successful negotiation means that the character made some progress, although negotiations can only be taken so far before the determining party (such as a gate guard, judge, or ruler) can go no further.

Persuasion can be skill test against a specific target number or an opposed test.

This is a representation of a character's ability to research information. An entire chapter section is devoted to this particular skill.

Search is a measure of the character's ability to look for things such as secret doors, traps, evidence, a specific book. It is also used when performing some actions, such as ransacking a room.

The character is trained how to operate various siege weapons and how to target them. Most siege weapons are not accurate enough to hit small targets, so a -80 AV difficulty applies to all attacks that are targeted against specific targets.

Sleight of hand is the ability to make quick, subtle, undetected hand and body movements. Often these skills are used for purpose of entertaining, such as performing card tricks and shell games. The other common use of this skill is theft. Cutting purses, picking pockets, and filching things without being seen.

Regardless of whether or not the character succeeds at getting the object, the target will get to roll a Spot, Street Savvy, Investigations, or Determine Motivation check (whichever skill is the highest or appropriate at the time). If the results are higher than the trickster's results, the attempt is noticed. This does mean that it is possible to succeed in pick-pocketing something yet also be caught in the process.

The character is capable of functioning as a blacksmith, armorer, or weaponsmith. Which type of function must be specified by the player when the skill is taken. More details on this skill are found in the Advanced Skill Use chapter.

The character has practiced loading guns (and repeating crossbows) in an effort to be as quick as possible. When in combat, a speed load check must be made every time the character reloads a gun or repeating crossbow (bows and standard crossbows do not require this skill). Reloading is considered to be a full round engrossing action. Attempting to swap a speedload cylinder requires two major actions or a full round.

When reloading rimfire or center fire revolvers, chambered rifles, or repeating crossbows, roll this skill to determine the number of rounds that are reloaded during that round of combat. Match the result to the number of rounds successfully loaded that round.

Spellcraft is a representation of a character's knowledge of arcane theory. Often, wizards and priests possess this skill to help them in their studies of the arcane arts. This skill is also required for the creation of magical items, such as wands, staves, scrolls, etc.

Spot is a measure of a character's visual awareness and ability to notice things while casually observing his surroundings. Noticing the glint of steel off of an ambusher's sword from the bushes or noticing that there is movement on the horizon are examples of when Spot is used. Spot is often used as an opposed skill against the Hide, Disguise, and Sleight of Hand skills.

• 100 TAV - Notice the presence of an invisible creature within 15'. This does not mean the character can see it, just that he knows that something is there.

Street savvy is the character's ability to feel the streets, specifically the criminal element and shady dealings. This skill is used when a character wishes to find illegal materials, a thieves guild, a corrupt constable, or a hit man. This skill is handled in much the same manner as Information Gathering except that it does not help much with the character's ability to find general information. If used as Info Gathering, this skill is only half as effective.

The survival skill represents a character's ability to find a means to survive adverse conditions. Use this skill to find water and surviving heat in deserts, and find food and surviving cold in tundras, etc. The difficulty will vary, depending upon whether or not the character is familiar with the type of environment, the region, and what equipment that the character has. Successful checks indicate that the character found enough food, water to get by for at least a day.

Throw is a character's ability to accurately throw an object. The difficulty of the object or weapon being thrown varies by weapon type.

This skill can be taken as either a generic throw skill or specialized to throw a type of object. As a generic throw skill, the skill only applies to rocks, balls, spears, javelins, knives (balanced), balanced axes (balanced), hammers (balanced), and other small objects with reasonable density and shape to allow easy throwing. Weapons that are not balanced properly for throwing, swords impose a -60 AV penalty to the attack roll.

Some exotic weapons such as boomerangs, bola, weighted nets, etc., require that the character specialize their throwing skill. It is also possible to specialize in more common items such as knives, spears, shot put, etc.

Tracking allows a character to follow quarry through the wilderness by searching for signs of passage. Difficulty is based upon several factors. A new check is required any time that the trail leads to a new area with conditions that would make the trail hard to follow. Tracking is normally a slow process, allowing, at best, half the character's normal movement rate while tracking.

The character is accomplished in some form of trade or craft that isn't covered by another existing skill. Examples are carpentry, engineering, bee keeping, mushroom farming, sailing, mining, locksmithing, clocksmithing, etc. The character is able to earn money with this skill during "down time" provided the character has the right kind of resources. For every rank in a trade or craft above a rank 4, the character can earn enough money to survive and get by for one person. Living comfortably and well off with extra cash by oneself requires at least a rank 4 in a marketable trade or craft. The difficulty will vary depending upon when the craftsman is trying to accomplish.

• 59 or lower: poor quality.
• 60 - 79: Mediocre quality.
• 80 - 99: Decent quality.
• 100 - 119: Good Quality.
• 120 - 139: Very good quality.
• 140 - 159: Excellent quality.
• 160 and higher: Wondrous.

By taking the weapon group skill, the character has learned a group weapons instead of just focusing on a single weapon. While the skill is more expensive, the diversity is useful because the character has much more flexibility. Some sample groups are included here.

• Common Swords: Sabers, Long swords, short swords, broad swords, bastard swords.
• Heavy swords: Broad sword, Claymore, Falchion, Great Sword, Nadochi.
• Light Swords: Long swords, short swords, saber, rapier, wakizashi, cane sword.
• Exotic Blades: Scimitar, Falchion, Nadochi, Katana, Wakizashi, Tulwar
• Axes: Wood Axe, Battle Axe, Hatchet, Great axe, Halberd.
• Pole weapons: Staff, pike, spear, naginata, bayonet, all pole-arms.
• Bludgeons: Staff, Light Mace, Heavy Mace, Hammers (non-sledgehammer), Light and Medium Clubs, Crowbar, Cane, Morning star.
• Primitive Set: War Hammer, Hatchet, Spear, Long Spear, Clubs (light and medium), Maces and Morning Stars
• Dwarven Military Set: Battle Axe, Hatchet, War Hammer, Short Sword, Light mace, Bayonet, Short Spear, Pike
• Common Military Set: Light mace, Heavy mace, Short Sword, Long Sword, Footman's Pick, Bayonet, Short Spear, Pike
• Martial Arts Set: Kama, Naginata, Nunchaku, Staff, Chain
• Shou Set: Scimitar, Falchion, Staff, Tulwar, War Claws, Knives and Daggers.
• Woodland Set: Short sword, knives, hand axe, wood axe, spear, staff.

By taking a ranged weapon group skill, the character has learned a group weapons instead of just focusing on a single group of weapons, such as standard or fully automatic weapons. While the skill is more expensive, the diversity is useful because the character has much more flexibility.

• Bows/Crossbows: Enables the character to proficiently use both bows and crossbows with equal skill. Bows use Agility as the primary adjusting skill and crossbows use perception.
• All Handguns: Enables the character to proficiently use both standard and fully automatic modes in handguns. Uses Agility for all adjustments.
• All Rifles: Enables the character to proficiently use all rifles in both standard and fully automatic modes. Using a rifle in standard single-shot mode uses Perception while full-auto mode uses agility.

The character is proficient with the use of simple, common weapons and using some tools as improvised weapons. The staff, light and medium clubs, light maces, crowbars, daggers, knives, bayonets, small hammers, and shovels are all included in this skill. This skill can also be used to pistol whip or strike with the stock of a rifle in melee.

Other weapons, such as swords, rapiers, sabers, axes, and other weapons are NOT included in this skill.