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Skills

General Skills
Professional Skills
Languages
Knowledges

General and Professional Skills represent your character's areas of expertise, whether it be in creating magical potions, fighting blindly, or disarming traps. Languages represent the languages your character is familiar with, in its spoken, signed, or written form. The Knowledge section contains different areas of study. Knowledge skills represent in-depth knowledge your character may have on any one subject, be it from first-hand experience or through scholarly research. Characters without specialized knowledge skills may still be familiar with different topics, but not at the same depth as someone having the skill.

General and Professional Skills Key:

Type: General or Professional. (At creation, general skills are open to every class, while professional skills are restricted. After creation, all skills become available for purchase reguardless of what type they are.)
Openable: Some skills can be aquired through hard-pressed experience on a tourney. Openable skills will list the stats used to gain the skill. Example: Swimming can be opened on (Ag+End)/10. If your character ends up in a situation where he needs to swim, or he will drown, he can attempt to open swimming. On an open attempt, a d100 is thrown. For the sake of the example, we'll say your character has an Agiliy of 60, and an endurance of 40. (60+40)/10 = 10. So, in this example, you would need to roll under a 10 to open up the swimming skill.
Stat at Purchase: Purchased skills will start at this stat.
DP ratio: Like your other stats, skills have development point ratios and can be increased at level up. See Advancement for more details.
Purchase Price: How much it costs to buy the skill from the Market.

General Skills

General Skills are usually “accessory” skills which augment a character's adventuring experience. Most aren't entirely necessary for a character, but a number are useful in survival situations—you wouldn't want to go for a sail in the ocean or ford a stream without knowing at least the basics of swimming. When choosing general skills for your character a good rule of thumb is to either take “survival” skills, such as swimming, climbing or leaping, or to take the most expensive skill of a number you wish, as you can purchase others later. General skills are so-named because every class has a number of general skill slots which they can fill with any of these skills. All general skills can be selected as a "professional" skill, in lieu of another selection, and gain the usual +15 bonus where applicable.

Professional Skills

Professional skills are just that—skills which grant unto the character abilities that are typical to his profession. Thus, casters will usually gain magical theory or fast cast, while warriors will either choose a weapon speed or parry skill. Professional skills taken at creation gain a bonus of +15%. Professional skills, like all skills, may be purchased at any time after creation, but they do not gain the +15% bonus.
It is generally not recomended to take a “statless” skill with a professional slot. Warriors, for example, may take ambidexterity with professional skill slot, and while this is possible, as ambidexterity is a “general” skill without a statistic, it would be better to take it with a general skill slot.

Teaching Skills

Characters may teach one another skills provided the skill in question is:

Developed to 100 or greater.
Base cost of 2000 silver or less.

Skills without a stat are not teachable with the exception of Weapon Proficiencies. For these, a character may teach three levels lower than his current Weapon Proficiency. For example: Someone with Weapon Proficiency IV may teach Weapon Proficiency I.

Teaching skills is a simple matter and can be handled either by email via the marketplace or an on duty GM.