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Skills

Posted July 8th, 2007 by Richard

These are the skills an AE can aquire, note each of the ones you learn on your AE record sheet as well as thier current score.

Skill Ability Description
Acrobatics Agillity This skill allows you to perform impressive physical feats that require a lot of balance and physical awareness, such as tumbling, tightrope walking and flying through the air with the greatest of ease.
Alchemy Intelligence You have knowledge of alchemical substances such as potions, acids, etc.
Alertness Intelligence A person's active perception. Actively searching. Finding secret doors, traps, looking for clues, noticing a slope in the passage etc, user is actively searching (player states this).
Animal Husbandry Wisdom The have an understanding and knowledge of how to raise, breed and look after animals. (You have a habit of marrying the ugliest women around.)
Archery Agillity This skill allows you to understand the physics and mechanics of ranged weapons such as bows, ballistae and crossbows.
Architecture Intelligence Knowledge of the design of structures including strengths and weaknesses.
Area Knowledge Wisdom You are familiar with a specific area, including locations of places, landmarks etc. This skill pertains to a specific area only, such as a single town and surroundings, and is generally the area that the AE has grown up in. This skill may be taken multiple times for different areas.
Art Empathy Some sort of artistic talent such as painting, drawing, sculpture etc.
Astrology Wisdom Fortune telling anyone? You understand how a person's birthdate affects their personality. This skill can be used in conjuction with communication skills such as negotiation as long as the person's birthdate is known.
Astronomy Intelligence Knowledge of the stars. You understand the cycles of the stars, planets and moons and how they affect the world. This skill may be used in conjunction with navigatory skills such as navigation and direction sense.
Athletics Agillity Athletics is the basics co-ordination of your body, used for running, jumping etc
Awareness Wits Passively noticing the un-obvious. Spotting the ambush before it occurs, seeing the trip wire just in time etc. This is a passive supernatural skill; a sixth sense that, on success, warns the AE of possible danger.
Axes Agillity This skill is used to wield axes of all shapes and sizes
Black Smithery Wisdom How to work metal into tools and horseshoes etc.
Bludgeons Agillity This skill is used to wield clubs, maces, morning stars and bludgeons of all kinds
Brawling Strength Brawling is fighting with your fists, knees, legs... anything goes, use all your natural weapons teeth included
Brewing Wisdom Knowledge allowing you to ferment grains to make beer etc
Building Wisdom You know how to construct walls and barricades
Camouflage Wisdom Blending in to your surroundings, fitting in as well as wearing the right colours
Carpentry Wisdom You know how to make things out of wood.
Cartography Intelligence Mapping. You can make as well as read maps with certainty.
Cobbling Wisdom You know how to make and repair shoes and boots.
Cogniscience Willpower This skill enables long periods of focused attention or concentration on a particular task where an alert mind is an asset. E.g. Standing Guard, Pouring through texts etc, Mental detective work!
Contortion Constitution Everything from compressing your hands to get them out of your (recently acquired) manacles to stuffing your head up your own ass
Cooking Wisdom You have some skill at making appetising and nourishing dishes.
Diplomacy Charisma Telling somebody to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip
Direction Sense Wisdom Can you find your way home, well can ya?? (Punk)
Disguise Intelligence Makeup, wigs. . . You get the picture
Engineering Intelligence You understand the physics of structures, and how things work.
Etiquette Charisma Airs and graces, correct social behaviour
Falconry Empathy You know how to acquire, train, and look after birds, particularly birds of prey.
Farming Wisdom You know how to sew and reap crops, you also have a basic understanding of the seasons and all other things known to the farming profession.
Farreing Wisdom You know how to look after horses, grooming and preparing them for journeys as well as care of sick or lame animals and some other basic medical know how
Fishing Wisdom You can catch fish. You know all about tackle and bait. You could probably feed yourself indefinately given enough access to a river and some worms.
Fletchery Wisdom You know how to make arrows and quarrels.
Forgery Intelligence You can copy or create official looking documents.
Gaming Wisdom You're good at rolling dice and playing cards.
Gem smithery Wisdom You know how to cut raw gemstones into valuable and beautiful jewels.
Groveling Empathy This skill is a measure of your ability to appeal to another's morals or pity by abasing yourself and throwing yourself at there mercy, groveling off-sets an opponents initiative roll, each successive roll is at a minus one penalty to the groveller
Heraldry Intelligence Knowledge of emblems, crests, seals etc, this enables you to identify armies and those who bare arms from a distance by the tinctures, furs and metals they wear.
Herb lore Wisdom You have knowledge of herbal pharmacoepia, you can identify and use herbs for various purposes
Hiding Wits You know how to conceal yourself in a hurry
History Wisdom You know a bit about the history of the world, including famous dead people.
Hunting Wisdom You're pretty good at catching dinner.
Initiative Wits This skill is a measure of your metal reflex action - how quickly you react to situations.
Intimidation Charisma This skill is used to impress/scare the crap out of a potential opponent, this skill can cause soul damage (exhaustion)
Intuition Empathy This is your gut-feel for a situation with regard to society and the doings of other creatures, Feeling the presence of the paranormal, spotting a Vampire on main street etc
Jousting Agillity Mounted combat using a lance or a suitable pole-arm, it's a very specialized combat skill.
Knife fighting Agillity Combat with short blades like daggers, stillettos and knives.
Language Wisdom Sprechen ze deutsch???
Leather craft Wisdom You make particularly pretty leather aprons for other smithies. You know how to tan and cure hides to make leather.
Literacy Intelligence Writing your own name, reading etc
Lock Smithery Intelligence You know the mechanics of locks and how to bypass them.
Lying Charisma Making others believe utter bullshit
Magickal lore Intelligence You have insight into the way magick works. You can identify spells being cast. You can identify existing spells.
Medicine Wisdom You know about medicinal herbs, poultices, how to stop bleeding etc.
Metal smithery Wisdom You can make fine items out of metal. unlike blacksmithery you know the finer points of making steel
Mining Wisdom You know all about digging holes and how to find specific raw metals, gemstones, and ore veins.
Music Empathy You have musical talent, whether it be playing an instrument or composing.
Navigation Intelligence You can use the stars to navigate on long journeys, find north using the sun and calculate you lattitude.
Negotiation Intelligence Mediation during a debate, finding middle-ground in order to create agreement
Pick pocket Wisdom You can choose what you wish to pocket, whether it belongs to you or not.
Poison lore Wisdom You know all about how to make and treat poisons.
Pole arms Agillity Combat using pole arms (not from horseback) like halberds and lochaber axes
Riding Agillty You know how to ride horses possibly even other animals
Rope making Wisdom You know how to weave hemp or silk or bedsheets to make a rope.
Sailing Wisdom You know about ports, afts, starboards, jibs, sails and wind.
Self Control Empathy Masking your emotions etc
Sewing Wisdom You can sew material and know all about stitches etc.
Shields Strength The use of shields in combat
Ship building Intelligence You know how to make boats that dont sink.
Singing Charisma You can reach the notes, but that doesnt mean you have a pretty voice.
Stealth Agillity Creepin' around, how not to get heard, seen etc
Story telling Charisma You can weave a wondrous tale and enthral people with your stories. Can be used in conjunction with lying :).
Survival Wisdom Finding food/shelter and water in the wild
Swimming Constitution The opposite of drowning
Swordplay Agillity Combat using swords
Tailoring Wisdom You make pretty dresses and suits.
Tenacity Constitution A measure of your grit, you just got hit on the head by an ogre, are you awake? Can you still RUUUUUNNNN!!! You can if your tenacious
Theocracy Wisdom Knowledge of doctrines and dogma?
Theology Intelligence Knowledge of the various religions.
Torture Wisdom Whips and chains, yeah baby, Can be used to extract valuable information!
Tracking Empathy Tracking is the fine tradition of following something and anticipating its next move. This skill may be used to track animals as well as people.
Trap lore Intelligence Trap lore is the study and understanding of all kinds of traps. This skill may be used to create, disarm, or bypass many types of traps.
Weapon smithery Wisdom You can make all sorts of decent weapons.
Weaving Wisdom You could use this skill to make baskets, blankets and just about anything that can be woven.
Woods lore Wisdom An AE with this skill can identify plants, trees, berries and animal tracks from a wooded area.
Wrestling Strength Someone who is proficient in wrestling can perform all the great wrestling moves in the ring (or inns as it were).
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