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Skills

Skills are the trained abilities that set the professions apart – a fighter's opening strike, a woodsman's eye for an item's true worth, a wizard's spells. You learn and sharpen them at a trainer (a guildmaster) by spending skill points.

How training works

train – also practice, prac, or pr – on its own shows your skill points,

the skills you already know (with your current %), and, if a trainer is here with you, what

that trainer can teach.

* train skill learns a skill you don't yet have, or improves one you do, for one skill

point. Each session nudges your proficiency upward (most skills by a random slice) toward
100% mastery.

* train str|int|wis|agi|con|cha instead spends a point to raise an ability score by 1.

You earn skill points as you level (a couple at the big milestones), so spend them with a

little care.

Each profession has its own guildmaster, who teaches that class's skills. The Adventurer is the generalist: an adventurer – and the Adventurer guildmaster – can learn any class's skill, so long as it is a level 5 skill or below. A level-6-and-up skill is class-only – the deep craft the jack-of-all-trades never quite reaches.

The guildmasters

Seek out the trainer for the craft you want:

Silas – the Adventurer guildmaster, on Main St. West.
Ellie – the Woodsman trainer, in her shop on Main St. East.
Gorin – the Warrior trainer, in his shop on Main St. East.
Wizzy the Wizard, Master of Magic – in his emporium (“Wizard

Stuff”) on Moss St., just south of market square.

The skills

A class is the profession whose guildmaster teaches the skill natively. An adventurer – and the Adventurer guildmaster – can also learn any class's skill that is level 5 or below (hit, dodge, identify, sneak, dual wield, healing, mana, mana spec), but not the deeper level-6-and-up craft. “Level” is the character level you must reach before a trainer will teach it; “Cost” is in skill points.

The higher skills are each class's own deep craft: a woodsman's stealth chain (stealth attack, then ambush), a fighter's flurry (fury) and level-12 specializations (weapon, strength, armor). Level 5 is the line past which the adventurer's borrowed breadth gives way to the specialist's edge.

Fighter

Skill	Class	Level	Cost	What it does
hit	Fighter	1	1	Open combat with a +1 hitroll bonus.
dual wield	Fighter	5	1	Wield a weapon in each hand (see offhand) for a chance each round at a bonus off-hand strike, at full off-hand damage. Off-hand weapons are the light blades – daggers, knives, shortswords. Adventurers can learn it too.
fury (second attack)	Fighter	7	1	A chance each round at a second main-hand attack. Train it as fury or second attack – the very same skill.
weapon spec	Fighter	12	1	A chance on any attack for +2 hitroll.
strength spec	Fighter	12	1	A chance on any hit for +1 damage.
armor spec	Fighter	12	1	A chance, when struck, for +10 armor (harder to hit) – the exact mirror of weapon spec, and it cancels one.
dodge	Fighter, Woodsman, Adventurer	1	1	Sidestep a blow – a chance in combat to make an attacker miss outright. (Trains +1% per point, capped at 5% for every class that can learn it – Wizards can't.)

A note on the fighter's specializations

Weapon spec and armor spec are a matched pair on the same to-hit maths: +2 hitroll is +10 on the attack roll, and +10 armor is +10 the other way, so an armor-spec defender exactly cancels a weapon-spec attacker. Strength spec adds flat damage instead – kept to +1 on purpose, since flat damage on every hit is worth far more than a like-sized swing to a roll.

Woodsman

Skill	Class	Level	Cost	What it does
identify	Woodsman	1	1	Read an item's nature – what it is, what it does, what it's worth.
sneak	Woodsman	5	1	Slip into stealth (type sneak); your first strike from stealth deals +sneak% damage (up to double at 100%). Any action but moving breaks stealth. Adventurers can learn it too.
stealth attack	Woodsman	7	1	From a stealth opener, a chance at a second backstab – same weapon, same sneak boost.
ambush	Woodsman	9	1	After a stealth attack lands, a chance at a third backstab. Years of hunting to survive teach the woodsman to lie in wait for the perfect moment.
dodge	Fighter, Woodsman, Adventurer	1	1	Sidestep a blow – a chance in combat to make an attacker miss outright. (Trains +1% per point, capped at 5% for every class that can learn it – Wizards can't.)

Wizard

Skill	Class	Level	Cost	What it does
healing	Wizard	1	1	A healing spell that restores 1d6 hit points for 1d6 mana. Use cast heal.
mana	Wizard	1	1	Attune to magic: your usable mana becomes this skill's % of your full pool (which grows 10 per level).
mana spec (mana specialization)	Wizard	5	1	Deepen the mana pool itself: a flat +1 max mana per %, up to +100 at mastery, stacking on top of what mana makes usable. Adventurers can learn it too.
recall	Wizard	7	1	A spell: cast recall to teleport home to the fountain for 10 mana. Unlike the free low-level recall, a wizard's own spell keeps working at any level.

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