Skills
Awakenings Fantasy
78 Skills to choose from to flesh out your character, such as Tracking, Alchemy, Fishing, Light Sleeper, Card Shark, Perception and Falconry to name but a few. Here are some examples.
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Stubborn
Why embrace this skill? For warriors who stand their ground against overwhelming odds, for scholars who unravel ancient mysteries despite setbacks, or perhaps for those who refuse to surrender even when the world crumbles.
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Sneaking
The shadows are your allies, the silence your armour. The art of sneaking is your silent dance. This skill allows you to move quietly about a space and hug the shadows using whatever terrain or furniture you can to help mask your movements.
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Spellcraft
Spellcraft allows you to understand the various gestures, spoken phrases and ingredients used in all forms of casting. This translates into being able to identify a potential caster and have insight into the kinds of spells they may have access to. It also allows you to identify magical traps and curses.
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Meditative Techniques
This skill is very useful to casters. Normally your Fadepool recovers with a full nights sleep of around 6 hours. This skill halves that value. You can recover your full pool with only 3 hours of rest, you do not even need to sleep.
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Gizmo Inventor
You love to invent new things! This skill determines how successful your invention is. A fumble on this roll can be very bad when working with explosives!
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Holistic Medicine
This skill offers traditional ways of healing taught by word of mouth and often referred to as "old wives tales" many of these natural remedies are excellent for speeding recovery. It will even allow you to stabilise a downed character.
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Swimming
You can swim without drowning, this can help a great deal if you fall into water wearing armour! You have a good deal of lung capacity and can hold your breath for longer than average.
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Climbing
Climbing is the ability to scale surfaces with specialist equipment and by hand. You can carve a path up a mountain safely with this skill or use it to scale a castle wall
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Slow Metabolism
You have a naturally slow metabolism and are able to go for long periods without food. You can easily get by on 1 meal a day. This has the added effect of slowing poisons and other nasty invasive things. This skill permanently increases your Resistance +5.
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Survival
In the unforgiving wilderness, where icy winds bite and scorching suns sear, those with Survival Knowledge thrive. They are the masters of adaptation, the whisperers of ancient secrets that keep them alive against all odds.
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Enchanter
This is a crafting skill. You are able to fashion all manner of magical items by infusing them with Fade and spell effects. This skill is only suitable for those that can cast.
You can also identify magical items with this skill and determine curses and how to remove them.
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Camouflage
This is the skill of blending into your environment using whatever is to hand. Often it means attaching sticks, leaves or bark to your clothing. A successful check means you cannot be seen. This is an excellent skill for evading pursuit or for planning an ambush.