Skills

Skills are the things your character can do. They're the basic means by which a character interacts with the world. Skills are heavily influenced by Class. Some skills are there for everyone, some are shared across similar classes, some are completely proprietary to the one class that practices them. Most Races have Skills resulting from their ancestry or native environment. Skills are purchased with Skill Points and every Skill has a description of what it does, what (if anything) it costs to employ, how often it can be used, and what underlying skills are required for it.

Everyman Skills

Everyman: Basic Skills
Skill	Cost	Prerequisite	Skill	Cost	Prerequisite
Adrenaline Rush	3		Healing Arts	6	First Aid & Diagnose
Brawl	6		Knowledge (Area)	3
Brew Potion Rank 1-4	6	Read and Write	Merchant (Skill) 1-10	6	Estimate Value
Chemistry Rank 1-4	6	Read and Write	Miner, Minor	3
Cook Rank 1-4	6		Miner, Standard	4	Miner, Minor
			Portal Manipulation Rank 1-5	5
			Read and Write	3
Craftsman	2		Resurrection 1-10	2	Knowledge (Cycle) or Spirit Magic
Diagnose	3	First Aid	Scribe Scroll Rank 1-4	6	Read and Write
Disable Device 1-10	3		Smithing Rank 1-4	6	Read and Write
Engineering Rank 1-4	6	Read and Write	Survival	3
Estimate Value	4		Theurgist, Minor	3
Farmer, Minor	3		Theurgist, Standard	4	Theurgist, Minor
Farmer, Standard	4	Farmer, Minor	Track 1-20	3
First Aid	3		Underwater Combat	5
Improved Instruct	2	Read and Write	One Handed Block	5	Proficiency with a 2Handed Weapon
Attunement	10	Plot approval	Second Attunement	10	Plot Approval & Character level <10
Everyman: Advanced Skills
Skill	Cost	Prerequisite	Skill	Cost	Prerequisite
Brew Potion Rank 5	10	Brew Potion Rank 4	Practitioner	8	Healing Arts
Chemistry Rank 5	10	Chemistry Rank 4	Profession- 1st	3
Cook Rank 5	10	Cook Rank 4	Profession- 2nd	5
Evasion	0	Disable Device10	Profession- 3rd	7
Engineering Rank 5	10	Engineering Rank 4	Ritualism	5	Knowledge Area Rank 4
Farmer, Major	5	Farmer Standard	Repair Item	0	Smithing or Engineering Rank 3
Knowledge Area, Rare	3	See Skill Description	Scribe Scroll Rank 5	10	Scribe Scroll Rank 4
Memorize Ritual	2	Ritualism	Smithing Rank 5	10	Smithing Rank 4
Miner, Major	5	Miner, Standard	Theurgist, Major	5	Theurgist, Standard
Disable Device 11-20	3	Disable Device 10
Species Skills
Skill	Cost	Prerequisite	Skill	Cost	Prerequisite
Resist  Impairment	3	Rok'Shen	Resist Mental	3	Gnome
Resist Magic	6	Deep Elf/Deep Dwarf/Pixie	Camouflage	4	Ent
Resist Toxin	4	Felis or Hill Dwarf	Resist Mental	3	High/Desert/Forest Elves
Regeneration	3	Half-Troll	Battle rage	8	Orc/Forest Elf
Resist Metabolic	4	Exemplar	Burst of Strength	6	Fae Troll

Knowledge Skills:

Knowledge skills represent your character's education in a given field. Sometimes that's formal education, sometimes it's passed down from master to apprentice, sometimes it's just losing the same fight over and over until you start seeing the why of it. Some of them also have practical applications, things your character knows how to do as a result of whatever study taught him the field. Knowledge Skills are explored more fully at:

Knowledge Skill Descriptions

Learning Skills

Characters can learn skills in a number of ways. The first is from being taught by an Instructor who already has that skill and spends time teaching it to your character. The second is through the use of Skill Tomes or Spell Scrolls which can be created by someone with the appropriate skills or found as treasure. The third is for those who can't seem to find the first two. A player may spend a Between Game Action (BGA) to spend time learning any basic everyman skill or class skill. The Advanced skills are a little more complex and require the expenditure of two BGAs. These can be spent all at once or over the course of multiple games, however the skill will not be useable until after all appropriate actions have been spent. Additionally, you must have earned the build before finalizing the learning any skill via this method. (i.e., if learning Brew Potion Rank 5, you would need to have the 10 SP ready to be spent after using the second BGA but do not need it available before starting to learn the skill).

Skill descriptions