Skills & Talents – Warrior, Rogue, Mage SRD

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The table below lists all available skills. Of course GMs are free to add more skills, if necessary.

Skills and Talents
Skill	Attribute	Description
Athletics	Warrior	Training in swimming, running and jumping.
Axes	Warrior	Training with axes and polearms
Blunt Weapons	Warrior	Training in all blunt weapons including maces and staves.
Riding	Warrior	Training in riding on horses and other common mounts.
Spears	Warrior	Training with spears and lances.
Swords	Warrior	Training with all kinds of swords, including two-handed ones.
Unarmed	Warrior	Training with unarmed fighting.
Acrobatics	Rogue	Training in activities like dancing, contortion, climbing, tightrope walking, tumbling.
Bows	Rogue	Skill for using bows and crossbows
Daggers	Rogue	Training with daggers and knives.
Firearms	Rogue	Training in the usage of exotic firearms.
Thievery	Rogue	Training in the roguish arts like picking locks and picking pockets.
Thrown Weapons	Rogue	Proficiency with thrown weapons like shuriken.
Alchemy	Mage	Training in creating potions and salves.
Awareness	Mage	This skill is a measure of a characters awareness of his surroundings.
Herbalism	Mage	Knowledge of plants, herbs and their medical uses. Can be used to heal critically wounded characters.
Hermeticism	Mage	Skilled with arcane spells and rituals.
Lore	Mage	General knowledge.
Thaumaturgy	Mage	Proficiency with divine spells.

The following list contains all available talents. GMs are free to add more if needed.

You may reduce the armor penalty by 2. May be taken more than once.

You may substitute mana with hit points when casting spells.

You have to select a cause. You get a +2 bonus on attack and damage rolls against enemies of that cause. May be taken more than once.

You can add your Mage attribute level to your magic attack damage once per combat

You are trained in a craft like blacksmithing, carpentry or bowmaking. May be taken more than once.

You may wield a weapon in your off-hand without penalty. Does not grant an extra attack.

You have a small animal like a cat or falcon as a pet that can do some simple tricks.

You are followed by a henchman, that carries your equipment and treasure around.

Your character is a trained hunter and may live off the land easily. When given enough time, he can provide enough food to feed a party of four.

You are a talented leader any may command troops.

You may reroll any roll once per scene (or combat)

You can add your Warrior attribute level to your melee attack damage once per combat

You can add your Rogue attribute level to your ranged attack damage once per combat

You are trained in steering a boat or sailing ship and don’t get any penalties for fighting on a sea vessel.

You may roll the dice before any ambush etc., if you rolls 4+ you’re not surprised and may act first.

Every damage taken is reduced by 2.