Skills & Perks

The twenty skills and their governing stats, the perks earned at 1st level and every even level thereafter, and the toolsets used for trade, production, and social utility.

20 SkillsPerks · 1st & Even LevelsToolsets

There are twenty skills, each with a governing stat. A skill check rolls a d20 and adds the stat modifier, plus proficiency if trained.

Stat	Skill	Description
Agility	Acrobatics	Balance, tumbling, jumping, tightrope walking, and other agile movement. Acrobatics allows Agility to be used instead of Might for jump distance and includes the “kipup” combat maneuver.
Agility	Stealth	Hiding, moving silently, tailing, stalking, evading, and sneaking up on targets to ambush them. Stealth requires light, cover, or ambient noise.
Agility	Thievery	Legerdemain, lockpicking, pickpocketing, bypassing mundane traps, and performing stage magic.
Charisma	Diplomacy	Debate, persuasion, negotiation, bribery, haggling, building morale, and other forms of social influence. Effective diplomacy requires time.
Charisma	Perform	Entertainment through singing, storytelling, comedy, dance, writing, and speeches. Musical instruments are covered by a toolset instead.
Charisma	Subterfuge	Disguise, misdirection, distraction, lying, hustling, impersonation, and planting ideas. Subterfuge is opposed by Empathy.
Intellect	Arcana	Magical theory and mechanics, including spells, curses, magic items, identifying and disarming magical traps, and the technical details of magic. Trained characters can identify spells without a roll.
Intellect	History	Broad knowledge of world events, politics, legends, treaties, laws, migrations, battles, and their historical context.
Intellect	Investigate	Searching for evidence, gathering information, analyzing facts, and using intellectual deduction to reach conclusions.
Intellect	Medicine	Surgery, triage, diagnosis, wound treatment, setting bones, and autopsies. Medicine restores health passively, and a character can treat a number of patients equal to their PROF.
Intellect	Nature	Geography, maps, animals, plants, weather, herbs, plant creatures, the fey, and harvesting useful natural resources.
Intellect	Occult	Supernatural lore concerning cosmology, planes, astrology, prophecy, mystic organizations and cults, curses, and the undead.
Intellect	Tactics	Strategy, planning, training, recruitment, terrain analysis, mass battles, supply, logistics, and military organization.
Intellect	Theology	Knowledge of religions, holidays, dogma, divine covenants, pantheons, deities, celestials, fiends, and other divine or planar entities.
Might	Athletics	Physical activities such as riding, climbing, swimming, jumping, wrestling, sports, obstacle courses, and bending bars.
Might	Intimidate	Causing fear through coercion, threats, bullying, interrogation, staredowns, and other displays of force.
Might	Wrangling	Riding, managing, herding, training, coercing, domesticating, or otherwise gaining compliance from animals and low-intelligence creatures.
Spirit	Empathy	Reading intentions and emotional states, including hostility, fear, deception, and hidden motives. Empathy is opposed by Subterfuge.
Spirit	Perception	Noticing hidden details, traps, trails, ambushes, buried bodies, and secret doors. Perception also determines Alertness.
Spirit	Survival	Outdoorsman skills including tracking, hunting, foraging, camping, building shelters, and rigging simple mantraps.

Perks are small improvements or talents gained at 1st level and every even level thereafter. Perks marked with an asterisk (*) may be taken multiple times.

Perk	Effect
Energy*	+6 maximum mana
Fast*	+1 initiative
Polyglot*	Proficiency in 1 language
Resistant*	+1 to one save
Skilled*	Proficiency in 1 skill or toolset
Tough*	+6 maximum health
Zanshen*	+2 alertness
Advisor	Support action range is 20 feet.
Armored	Proficiency in medium armor.
Aquanaut	Swimming speed equals land speed; hold breath 2x as long.
Attractive	+1 on charisma checks to influence romantically compatible creatures.
Bomber	Add PROF to damage with alchemical items.
Charger	Charging speed increases by +10.
Diesel	Require half as much food and water.
Greenblood	Poison resistance and immunity to addiction.
Grounded	Recover sanity at 2x rate.
Bushwhack	Gain 1 backstab die.
Hipshot	Shoot into melee without disadvantage.
Insomniac	Require half as much sleep.
Leadership	Attract followers at 10th level.
Militancy	Proficiency with martial weapons and shields.
Packmule	10 points of load do not count toward encumbrance.
Packrat	Retroactively declare you packed one non-magical item (<10 silver, <5 lbs).
Prepared	Retroactively declare you took one downtime action (<1 hour, <10 days).
Quickdraw	Draw/stow weapons or tools as a reaction.
Recuperative	Heal naturally at 2x speed.
Reparable	Healing received restores extra health equal to Endurance modifier.
Safedive	Move 10 feet as a reaction when targeted by a missile attack or reflex save.
Scheduling	Prolonged activities take 30% less time.
Teamwork	Support action grants +3 bonus.
Mysticism	Prepare 2 additional spells of level 1+.
Expertise	+2 to one skill.
Cantrip	Learn 1 additional cantrip.
Lucky	One d20 reroll per session.
Training	Gain one fighting style.
Ghost	Running no longer breaks stealth.
Slalom	Ignore penalties for difficult terrain.
Catfeet	Reduce falling damage by 20 feet. Falls less than this distance incur no damage.