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	=== Making a Skill Roll ===		=== Making a Skill Roll ===

	<div class="ss-rule-formula">'''Skill roll = 3d6 + Skill ~~rating~~ + relevant Attribute'''</div>		<div class="ss-rule-formula">'''Skill roll = 3d6 + Skill Modifier + relevant Attribute'''</div>

	Skills are not completely granular. Each Skill has one of four competency levels and uses only the modifier associated with that level:		Skills are not completely granular. Each Skill has one of four competency levels and uses only the modifier associated with that level:

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	<div class="ss-rule-formula">'''Skill roll = 3d6 + Skill rating + relevant Attribute'''</div>		<div class="ss-rule-formula">'''Skill roll = 3d6 + Skill rating + relevant Attribute'''</div>

	A Skill contributes its fixed competency score: 0 ~~Untrained~~, 2 ~~Trained~~, 4 ~~Expert~~, or 6 ~~Master~~. Some specialized tasks require at least Trained competency before they can reasonably be attempted.		A Skill contributes its fixed competency score: Untrained +0, Trained +2, Expert +4, or Master +6. Skills only come with one of these bonuses. There is no Awareness +3, for example. Some specialized tasks require at least Trained competency before they can reasonably be attempted.

	=== Choosing the Attribute ===		=== Choosing the Attribute ===

	Skills do not have permanently assigned Attributes. Choose the Attribute that best represents the approach taken. The player may suggest an approach, but the Narrator decides which combination applies.		Skills do not have permanently assigned Attributes. Choose the Attribute that best represents the approach taken. The player may suggest an approach, but the Narrator decides which combination applies. Some examples:

	Athletics + Brawn to haul oneself onto a high parapet.		* Athletics + Brawn to haul oneself onto a high parapet.
			* Athletics + Vigor to swim for hours through cold water.
	Athletics + Vigor to swim for hours through cold water.		* Influence + Presence to win over a suspicious crowd.
			* Influence + Intellect to argue a point of law before a tribunal.
	Influence + Presence to win over a suspicious crowd.		* Technics + Intellect to diagnose an ancient mechanism.
			* Technics + Presence to coax cooperation from an ensouled bridge nursing an old grievance.
	Influence + Intellect to argue a point of law before a tribunal.

	Technics + Intellect to diagnose an ancient mechanism.

	Technics + Presence to coax cooperation from an ensouled bridge nursing an old grievance.

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= Skills = Skills are broad learned capabilities. The Skill answers what the hero knows how to do; the Attribute answers how the hero is doing it now. Skills are broad capabilities acquired through training and experience. They answer what a hero is practiced at doing; the Attribute answers how the hero is doing it. === Making a Skill Roll ===

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= Skills =

Skills are broad learned capabilities. The Skill answers what the hero knows how to do; the Attribute answers how the hero is doing it now.

Skills are broad capabilities acquired through training and experience. They answer what a hero is practiced at doing; the Attribute answers how the hero is doing it.

=== Making a Skill Roll ===

<div class="ss-rule-formula">'''Skill roll = 3d6 + Skill rating + relevant Attribute'''</div>

A Skill contributes its fixed competency score: 0 Untrained, 2 Trained, 4 Expert, or 6 Master. Some specialized tasks require at least Trained competency before they can reasonably be attempted.

=== Choosing the Attribute ===

Skills do not have permanently assigned Attributes. Choose the Attribute that best represents the approach taken. The player may suggest an approach, but the Narrator decides which combination applies.

Athletics + Brawn to haul oneself onto a high parapet.

Athletics + Vigor to swim for hours through cold water.

Influence + Presence to win over a suspicious crowd.

Influence + Intellect to argue a point of law before a tribunal.

Technics + Intellect to diagnose an ancient mechanism.

Technics + Presence to coax cooperation from an ensouled bridge nursing an old grievance.

=== The Skill List ===

{| class="wikitable codex-table ss-rules-table"
! Skill
! Scope
|-
| Combat
| Armed and unarmed attacks, parrying, and trained fighting
|-
| Athletics
| Movement, strength, and endurance
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| Finesse
| Balance, bodily control, escape, and delicate manipulation
|-
| Stealth
| Concealment, silent movement, shadowing, and infiltration
|-
| Awareness
| Noticing, searching, and recognizing disturbances
|-
| Insight
| Reading people, motives, loyalties, and moods
|-
| Influence
| Persuasion, negotiation, performance, and social inquiry
|-
| Guile
| Deception, disguise, misdirection, and feinting
|-
| Command
| Leadership, intimidation, discipline, and coordinated action
|-
| Wayfaring
| Travel, navigation, tracking, survival, mounts, and journeys
|-
| Medicine
| Diagnosis, treatment, stabilization, and living bodies
|-
| Lore
| Learned knowledge about peoples, histories, creatures, and phenomena
|-
| Technics
| Operating, diagnosing, coaxing, and restoring devices
|-
| Craft
| Making and repairing ordinary comprehensible objects
|}

=== Combat ===

Combat covers deliberate fighting with weapons, unarmed attacks, parrying, and the practiced use of violence under pressure.

'''Common Attributes. '''Brawn for forceful melee; Agility for Finesse, ranged, or precision attacks.

'''Common uses. '''Striking with a weapon, firing a ranged weapon, wrestling an armed opponent, parrying, or judging position in a fight.

'''Limits. '''Its competency rating improves like any other Skill.

=== Athletics ===

Athletics covers climbing, jumping, swimming, lifting, running, and sustained physical exertion.

'''Common Attributes. '''Brawn for force or explosive movement; Vigor for endurance; Agility for a movement whose chief challenge is timing.

'''Common uses. '''Scaling a wall during pursuit, leaping a gap, swimming a violent current, forcing open a heavy obstruction, or enduring a long climb.

'''Limits. '''Routine movement requires no roll. Distance and speed are judged from the circumstances rather than separate tables of measurements.

=== Finesse ===

Finesse covers balance, tumbling, escaping restraints, sleight of hand, and other acts of precise bodily or manual control.

'''Common Attributes. '''Agility for speed and precision; Intellect for intricate manipulation; Brawn when escape depends upon leverage.

'''Common uses. '''Crossing unstable footing, slipping bonds, concealing a small object, moving through a press of bodies, or performing a delicate manual trick.

=== Stealth ===

Stealth covers concealment, silent movement, tailing another person, and entering or leaving a place without notice.

'''Common Attributes. '''Agility for movement; Intellect for planning an approach; Spirit for patient concealment.

'''Common uses. '''Passing a sentry, hiding in a crowded court, shadowing a traveler, masking signs of passage, or choosing an unseen route.

'''Limits. '''A character cannot become unseen merely by making a roll. The fiction must provide darkness, distraction, concealment, confusion, or some other opportunity.

=== Awareness ===

Awareness covers alertness, deliberate searches, and the recognition that something is absent, altered, concealed, or wrong.

'''Common Attributes. '''Spirit for immediate perception; Intellect for methodical examination; Vigor for maintaining vigilance over a long watch.

'''Common uses. '''Spotting an ambush, searching a chamber, hearing a change in a mechanism’s voice, finding tampering, or noticing that a familiar ritual has been performed incorrectly.

'''Limits. '''Do not roll to discover information the adventure requires the heroes to possess. Give them the essential clue; a successful roll may reveal it early, safely, or with additional context.

=== Insight ===

Insight covers the reading of people and other intelligences: motives, moods, loyalties, hesitation, and deception.

'''Common Attributes. '''Spirit for intuition; Intellect for analysis; Presence for understanding through direct engagement.

'''Common uses. '''Sensing concealed hostility, recognizing divided loyalty, judging whether a promise is sincere, reading a room, or understanding the emotional condition of an ensouled artifact.

'''Limits. '''Insight reveals impressions and inconsistencies, not a transcript of another being’s thoughts.

=== Influence ===

Influence covers persuasion, negotiation, diplomacy, performance, and learning what people know by speaking with them.

'''Common Attributes. '''Presence for personal force; Intellect for argument; Spirit for patient mediation; Brawn only where physical stature genuinely matters.

'''Common uses. '''Changing an attitude, negotiating passage, calming an angry crowd, collecting rumors, performing before an audience, or persuading a proud machine that cooperation preserves its dignity.

'''Limits. '''Influence cannot compel an impossible betrayal of nature, loyalty, or immediate self-preservation. Success changes the conversation; it does not remove another character’s agency.

=== Guile ===

Guile covers lies, disguise, misdirection, false identities, concealed intentions, and combat feints.

'''Common Attributes. '''Presence for performance; Intellect for constructing a deception; Agility for a deception dependent on timing or physical trickery.

'''Common uses. '''Passing under a false name, disguising one’s purpose, planting a misleading clue, creating a diversion, or drawing an opponent into a mistaken response.

=== Command ===

Command covers leadership, intimidation, discipline, morale, and the coordination of people under pressure.

'''Common Attributes. '''Presence for authority; Intellect for organization; Spirit for judgment; Brawn for an immediately threatening physical presence.

'''Common uses. '''Rallying frightened companions, giving clear orders during disaster, cowing an uncertain opponent, organizing an evacuation, or restoring order among competing retainers.

'''Limits. '''Command can secure immediate compliance without producing loyalty. Coercion creates consequences even when the roll succeeds.

=== Wayfaring ===

Wayfaring covers journeys through unfamiliar places: navigation, tracking, finding shelter and provisions, handling mounts, and recognizing travel hazards.

'''Common Attributes. '''Spirit for direction and signs; Intellect for planning; Vigor for hard travel; Agility for controlling a mount or conveyance in danger.

'''Common uses. '''Finding a route across broken country, following a trail, preparing a safe camp, predicting dangerous weather, calming a mount, or guiding a company through a strange city.

'''Limits. '''Wayfaring does not turn travel into a sequence of compulsory rolls. Roll when the journey presents a meaningful danger, decision, or cost.

=== Medicine ===

Medicine covers diagnosis, stabilization, treatment, surgery, and practical knowledge of living bodies.

'''Common Attributes. '''Intellect for diagnosis and procedure; Spirit for observation and care; Agility for delicate treatment.

'''Common uses. '''Stabilizing the dying, treating injury or disease, recognizing poison, determining a cause of death, or understanding an unfamiliar body well enough to provide aid.

'''Limits. '''Advanced treatment requires training and appropriate facilities. Medicine does not reproduce the effects of Phasmic Formulae.

=== Lore ===

Lore covers formal learning, remembered tradition, scholarship, and systematic knowledge. Training represents a broad education; a stated field establishes deeper expertise.

'''Common Attributes. '''Intellect for recall and analysis; Spirit for tradition and interpretation; Presence for knowledge preserved through recitation and social memory.

'''Common uses. '''Identifying a polity’s customs, recalling an old war, understanding phasmic theory, recognizing a creature, interpreting Monitor doctrine, or comparing contradictory accounts.

'''Limits. '''Lore does not require purchasing every subject separately. When highly specialized knowledge matters, consider the hero’s Path, lineage, and established history.

=== Technics ===

Technics covers the operation, diagnosis, coaxing, and restoration of devices whose workings can be approached through inherited practice.

'''Common Attributes. '''Intellect for diagnosis; Spirit for recognizing behavior and precedent; Presence for negotiating with an intelligent or ensouled device; Agility for careful intervention.

'''Common uses. '''Operating unfamiliar machinery, identifying a malfunction, following an ancient maintenance rite, bypassing a mechanism, awakening a dormant device, or persuading an artifact to resume an old duty.

'''Limits. '''Technics cannot create artifacts. At most, a practitioner convinces surviving technology to continue working, restores a function its makers intended, or finds a new use the device itself can sustain.

=== Craft ===

Craft covers making, repairing, and evaluating ordinary objects produced by comprehensible means.

'''Common Attributes. '''Intellect for design; Agility for fine work; Brawn for heavy work; Spirit for traditional methods learned through practice.

'''Common uses. '''Repairing clothing or armor, shaping wood or metal, preparing pigments, evaluating workmanship, improvising a useful tool, or supervising ordinary construction.

'''Limits. '''Training and established history determine which crafts the hero actually knows. Craft never permits the construction of an artifact.

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