Skills

The Skills are structured categorically, both by the type of skill and by which Attribute they fall under.

There are four types of skill points players will earn while leveling up: Attributes, Combat, Advanced Combat, and Social. Each of these point pools apply only to the skills that fall under that category, so players do not have to worry about spending all of their points on Combat skills and having none for Social, and so on.

Each character has three attributes their player can choose to put points into when leveling: Spirit, Guts, Wits. These attributes are the base modifiers of their characters' dice pools, thus they should choose the attributes that affect most of the skills they plan on using.

Spirit refers to a character's affinity for Magic, no matter the type.
Guts refers to a character's constitution and strength.
Wits refers to a character's ability to think, speak, and scheme.

The maximum amount of ranks of an Attribute any character can earn by leveling up is 10.

Each character is given points specifically to use for combat-related skills. To use any of these skills, please refer to the HUD guide.

Starting at Level 25, characters who have spent at least 8 points in a single combat skill will have access to the Advanced Combat Skills for that category. These skills are essentially specializations, with the goal to add a few more dice to the pool when rolling against other characters. A character may roll an advanced combat skill against another character even if that other character does not have the counter advanced combat skill.

Each character is given points specifically to use for non-combat-related skills. These skills are used primarily in day-to-day roleplay, and largely without a target character. However, there are some exceptions, and anything with a counter skill will be noted.

Despite the title, this allows a character to heal other characters in and out of combat through the means listed below.

For a breakdown of how skill ranks would affect combat healing, please refer to this page.

Getting around by just using legs can be kind of boring. These skills spice it up a bit. They also allow characters to flee combat.

To flee combat, the fleeing character must roll whichever Movement skill they wish, and describe in their post about how exactly they are using that method to escape. Their opponent(s) must roll against that Movement skill with any of their own Movement skills (If they intend to prevent that escape) and describe how they are attempting to catch or detain the fleeing character. The highest roll wins.

Being aware of surroundings and using certain environmental objects to the player character's advantage.

Have a profession? Here are the skills a character might need.

When a character uses a non-combative skill in roleplay, that character's player makes a skill check to see how well they did. A skill check takes into account a character's training (skill rank) and luck (the die roll). The higher the result, the better. Based on the circumstances, your result must match or beat the Difficulty Class (DC, the number rating of how difficult a particular action would be) for the check to be successful.

Difficulty classes are set by Storytellers, mainly, when a character wishes to perform an unopposed action. In general, players can try a skill check again if they fail, and can keep trying indefinitely. Some skills, however, have consequences of failure that must be taken into account, such as using up materials/ingredients with the Workshop/Alchemy skills. A few skills are virtually useless once a check has failed on an attempt to accomplish a particular task. For most skills, when a character has succeeded once at a given task, additional successes are meaningless.