Skills

Acting is the skill of portraying characters in performances, using voice, emotion, and movement to bring stories to life. Enhances the effect of magical or technological illusions with persons in them.

Expertise in handling all sorts of public and private administration. Can handle all sorts of economic, legal, and bureaucratic challenges.

Trigger an adrenaline-fueled burst of evasive movement - rolling, ducking, or diving to avoid attacks and boost your DB for one round.

React with uncanny speed to ambushes and give your team the edge in the first crucial seconds of combat.

Knowledge of extraterrestrial species, their history, culture, and technology, enabling interactions with alien civilizations and understanding foreign biology or technology

Conceal your identity or intentions using improvised outfits, body language, or minimal tools - suitable for infiltration, escape, or on-the-go deception.

Launch surprise attacks from hidden positions, disrupting the enemy’s response and seizing control of the battlefield from the start.

Calm, guide, train, or influence the behavior of animals, from mounts to wild creatures—whether through empathy, discipline, or instinct.

Predict your opponent’s next move to enhance your defense or prepare a precise counteraction.

Draw on deep, experience-based knowledge of magical creatures, energies, and spell structures to interpret, anticipate, and respond to arcane forces in active environments.

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Reverse the penalty for repeated spell use - accept an initial penalty to build casting momentum and fire off follow-up spells with increased precision and efficiency.

Knowledge of ancient civilizations, lost cultures, and forgotten myths, helping uncover relics, interpret ancient symbols, and understand powerful old-world artifacts or magic.

Identify and strike the weak points in medium and heavy armor—gaps at joints, seams, or vents—to inflict extra damage where protection is thinnest.

The study of celestial bodies, cosmic systems, and astrophysical principles. Used for navigation, scientific interpretation, and empowering space-related magic.

Strike quickly and decisively in melee when an opponent exposes themselves, reducing penalties to your follow-up attack by seizing the perfect moment.

Backstab is a stealthy melee attack with a 1-handed piercing weapon aimed at an unsuspecting enemy from behind, often resulting in increased damage due to surprise and precision.

Mastery of projectile motion, impact prediction, and environmental adjustments for ranged weapons and similar relying on projectiles.

Mislead opponents in combat through posture, expression, and calculated behavior to provoke hesitation or incorrect reactions.

Battle Chant is the skill of using rhythmic, powerful vocalizations to inspire allies or intimidate enemies during combat.

Stay alert to enemy tactics, decoy maneuvers, and shifting threats in the chaos of combat.

A grappling technique used to restrain and control a target by locking them in place, limiting movement and combat effectiveness.

Prepare, compound, and apply pharmaceuticals, performance enhancers, and medical substances for healing, recovery, or resistance. Spend 1 hour and for the next 24 hours, your BiBs might be more effective.

Continuously refine and enhance the biology of your allies over time. Grants one teammate per level-up a smoother stat progression by softening natural ability growth limits.

Understand the structure and behavior of living organisms to analyze, adapt, or exploit their biological traits in and out of combat.

Blace Dancing is the art of combining combat with fluid, dance-like movements, using agility and precision to wield bladed weapons in an elegant yet deadly manner.

Use misdirection, body control, and subtle bladework to lure your opponent into guarding the wrong spot—then strike cleanly.

When you hit an opponent with a piercing weapon you can twist and turn the weapon in the wound to do more damage.

Launch multiple rapid melee strikes in a single flurry, overwhelming your opponent through sheer speed.

Convincingly present false or misleading information to manipulate others.

A high-impact charge where you throw your full weight into an opponent to knock them backward, disrupt their footing, or slam them into walls and obstacles.

Influence decisions and actions by offering something of value - coin, favors, information, or promises - to bypass obstacles and shift outcomes in your favor.

Feign weakness, fear, or injury to draw enemy aggression, provoke tactical errors or gain sympathy in social situations.

Design and construct machines and technological devices from scratch using engineering knowledge, technical materials, and creativity.

Bull Rush is an aggressive charge toward an opponent, intending to push them back.

Rush forward with explosive force to slam into your target, disrupting their stance and delivering a powerful melee blow. Ideal for surprise or break-through attacks.

Create, identify, and analyze chemical substances for use in combat, crafting, and fieldwork.

Climbing is the ability to ascend vertical surfaces, requiring physical strength and agility to navigate heights safely and effectively.

Understand, identify, cure, and create poisons - chemical, biological, or synthetic - ranging from simple venoms to advanced compounds.

Brace yourself and maintain accuracy while using ranged weapons in melee combat - offsetting the usual vulnerability by keeping threats at bay with discipline and nerve.

Close the gap between you and your target with trained speed and precision, placing them at a disadvantage and reducing their ability to respond effectively.

Close the gap between you and your target with trained speed and precision, placing them at a disadvantage and reducing their ability to respond effectively.

Quickly retreat from melee without provoking attacks.

Intervene to reduce ongoing physical damage caused by bleeding, burns, corrosive injuries, or similar effects by applying rapid emergency techniques to interrupt or contain internal or external trauma.

Hide a weapon or dangerous item on your person or in your surroundings to avoid detection or prepare for a surprise attack.

A special meditation technique to shield the mind from external distractions. A useful skill if you need to perform difficult academic or mental tasks in battle or under pressure.

Conjuring is the skill of performing magical tricks or illusions to entertain or deceive an audience.

Cooking is the skill of preparing meals, using knowledge of ingredients and techniques to create satisfying and nourishing food in various environments.

Direct your allies to focus fire on a single target, dramatically increasing the group's collective accuracy.

Strike quickly and decisively in melee when an opponent exposes themselves, reducing penalties to your follow-up attack by seizing the perfect moment.

Interrupt and overload enemy spellcasting, forcing casters to spend extra energy - or cancel the spell entirely.

When your attack spell is countered or dispelled or you have to hold it back for one reason or the other, you immediately unleash the same spell in retaliation - turning failure into opportunity.

Coup de Grace is a lethal finishing move delivered to a helpless or incapacitated opponent, ensuring maximum damage and a swift end to the fight.

Use your communication skills, empathy, and authority to de-escalate tense situations, delay hostilities, or persuade hostile actors to consider alternatives.

Smash into an enemy's armor with brute force, reducing its effectiveness for the rest of the combat.

The art of expressing ideas, emotions, and stories through movement, utilizing fluid motion, rhythm, and creative choreography.

Intuitive hunch alerting you of dangerous situations or imminent threats.

Dash is a rapid movement technique that allows a character to cover short distances very fast but at the cost of defense.

Channel absolute focus into a single ranged attack, maximizing the chance for devastating critical hits through sheer precision and composure.

Convince others of something false through charm, distraction, confidence, or fabricated details—whether to mislead, manipulate, or buy yourself time.

Use deception and misdirection to draw enemy focus away from allies and disrupt their tactical decisions.

Mislead your opponent to create hesitation, letting you reposition or prepare a stronger defense.

You have perfected your defensive stance and can go very defensive with less penalty to your offense.

Stall a hostile magical effect just long enough to allow your allies to reposition, counter, or brace for impact.

Hold your spell until a specific trigger occurs - then release it with precision, gaining a significant bonus to hit (if the trigger occurs).

Use explosive devices to weaken or destroy enemy cover, breach structures, and reshape the battlefield in your favor.

Detect High Tech and Magic is the ability to sense, recognize, and analyze the presence of advanced technology or magical effects in an environment.

Detect Illusions is the skill of noticing subtle inconsistencies in light, sound, texture, or logic that suggest something isn’t real. It allows characters to see through magical illusions, holographic projections, or high-tech camouflage by detecting discrepancies in the environment.

Discern dishonesty in conversation by interpreting subtle cues in behavior, tone, and timing - spotting falsehoods others might accept at face value.

Discern whether items, creatures, or effects are magical in nature through focused observation and arcane perception.

Sense the presence of mechanical, magical, or technological traps before triggering them.

Deliver a socially acceptable insult so sharp it destabilizes your target’s composure - provoking careless reactions without stepping outside the bounds of etiquette.

Exert sustained influence on others by applying social leverage, emotional appeal, or repeated framing to erode resistance over time.

Underhanded tactics used to disrupt your opponent’s next action. Can only be used in melee range.

Quickly retreat from melee without provoking attacks.

Quickly retreat from melee without provoking attacks.

Conceal your identity or intentions using improvised outfits, body language, or minimal tools - suitable for infiltration, escape, or on-the-go deception.

Disrupt a caster’s focus mid-combat, forcing their concentration spells to become more draining and difficult to maintain.

Use distraction and social cunning to draw enemy focus away from you or your allies.

Invoke faith, ritual, or divine symbolism to sway decisions—whether through genuine belief or strategic use of spiritual authority.

Evade a ranged attack by ducking, twisting, or leaping out of its path.

Force ranged enemies to target you instead of allies by intentionally drawing their attention or aggro.

Strike with a weapon in each hand by replacing the severe penalty on off-hand attacks with a dedicated skill roll, enabling fluid two-weapon combat.

Assume a poised, reactive stance - delaying your strike until the enemy commits, then responding with precision and speed.

Listen in on conversations without being noticed, allowing you to extract useful information through subtle observation, positioning, and auditory focus.

Knowledge of the basic economic situation in a given culture. Expert knowledge of accounting, money systems, currencies and prices in a known culture.

Build and repair power sources needed for tech modules, exoskeletons and other electro-mechanic equipment.

Endurance is the ability to withstand physical strain and fatigue, enabling a character to perform at peak capacity for longer durations.

Slip from restraints, holds, or tight spaces through dexterity and calm under pressure.

Understanding and applying social customs, cultural protocols, and formal behavior to create goodwill, avoid offense, and gain privileged access.

Use sharp reflexes and spatial awareness to dodge spell attacks, increasing your Base Defense against 1 specific spell attack.

You bob & weave to avoid the blows and make your opponents get in each other's way. Automatically puts you in defensvie stance.

Sustained, evasive foot movement that balances speed and control across longer distances or in battle.

Knowledge of how alien lifeforms evolve, interact, and adapt across different environments—vital for identifying, interpreting, or predicting alien biology.

Safely construct, place, and disarm explosive devices for engineering, sabotage, and structural manipulation

Mislead your opponent about your true intent to avoid counters and create a tactical opening for your real action.

Feinting is the art of misleading an opponent into committing to the wrong response—whether by simulating an attack, shifting stance, or exploiting a known reaction pattern. This creates brief openings that can be exploited for offensive or defensive maneuvers.

Conceal your identity or intentions using improvised outfits, body language, or minimal tools - suitable for infiltration, escape, or on-the-go deception.

Identify and strike the weak points in medium and heavy armor—gaps at joints, seams, or vents—to inflict extra damage where protection is thinnest.

Shoot faster than thought—strike in the first moments of combat without aiming, sacrificing precision for initiative.

Shoot into a melee engagement without accidentally hitting your allies, compensating for erratic movement and shifting positions.