Heritable skills and knowledges

Parents and family setup

Chose 2, 1 for your father and 1 for your mother. If you live in a two parent home you inherit a mix of skills, if you live in a single parent home you get most/all of your parents skills. A good mix of skills is suggested, and low-moderate parties and moderate-advanced parties are suggested. You never know just what you’ll need or who will have a quest for you to do, and you may need an obscure skill to do it, after all.

Basic – levels 1 to 25, Moderate – level 25 to 65, Advanced level 65 to 100 (for skills and talents). Mortals cannot exceed 100 in a skill without divine aid or an empowering object or blessing which allows it either permanently or temporarily.

Basic X – cheap end of the cash value spectrum, Moderate X – middle range of the cash value spectrum, Advanced X – uppermost end of the cash value spectrum (for objects and wielding skills)

Low level rung: the ‘standard NPC villager’ builds. Moderate level rung: The ‘somewhat adventurous NPC’ builds, Advanced level rung: The direct warrior or direct magic user builds.

Alchemist
Literacy
Herbalism
Compounding
Basic medicine
Basic weapon
Survival
Identify illness (general)
Identify poisoning (if you know any poison recipes)

Astrologer
Divining: Constellations
Mythos: culture specific
Moderate maths
Operations: Astronomy telescope
Detect: Ambush
Literacy
Lore: Specific pantheon

Assassin
Identify: Foul play
Identify: Poisoned weapon
Cloak & Dagger
Ambushing (or) Archery
Lore: crime
Law: 1d3 kingdoms
Escaping
Survival
Moderate weapon
Light armor
Identify: Fatal injury

Artifacer
Researching
2 dead languages
Identify: Enchanted weapon
Identify: Enchanted object
Identify: Enchanted armor
Lore: Famous weapons and armor
Advanced literacy
Composition: Academic book
Detect: Trap
Detect: Subtle trap

Apothecary
Haggling
Advanced maths
Moderate literacy
Identify: alchemy ingredient
Researching
Merchant’s cant
Lore: Drugs and medicines

Artist (note: sculptor is treated as if a mason)
Composition: Visual artwork
Chemistry: paints & dyes
Fine manual work
1d3 languages
Sketching
Outlining (i.e. making a study for an artwork)
Chicanery

Bard
Operations: Musical instrument x 2
Historical lore: (race of character)
2 languages
Basic weapon
Moderate literacy
Composition: Poetry (or) Song
Dance
(sometimes) seduction

Back field military
Military procedures
(sometimes) moderate (or) high nobility
2 moderate weapons
Advanced literacy
Moderate tactics
Riding
Lore: the battlefield
Identify: strongpoint (of an army)
Identify: weakpoint (of an army)
Light (or) heavy armor

Bandit
1 level of warrior
Endurance
Survival
Escape
Basic weapon x 2
Patchworking (a multi-purpose skill that helps repair things piecemeal)
Light armor

Brewer
Barrel-making
Procedures: alcohol industry
Moderate maths
Crop: Alcohol specific plant (i.e. barley, wheat, etc)
Identify: alcohol poisoning

Butcher
Basic weapon
Butchery
Identify illness: veterinary
Animal husbandry: 2 animals
Basic preservation
Haggle

Carriager
Repair: Wagons & Chariots
Night navigation
Navigation: by landmarks
Basic weapon
Light armor
Care & Feeding: yoke animal
Identify: problem passenger

Chirugeon
Basic surgery
Amputation
Literacy
Basic medicine
Compounding
Wound care

Circus-folk
Entertaining
Animal taming
Juggling
Dance
Chicanery
Pickpocket
Basic weapon
(sometimes) thrown weapon: dagger
(sometimes) Fire-breathing (this means you know how to mix and use the circus fire-breather’s combusting fluid that’s spit over the burning torch)

City guard
Basic law
Archery
Light armor or Heavy armor
Moderate weapon
Shield wielding
Lore: monsters of the environs (meaning monsters specific to your starting area)
Moderate military
Military procedure

Cook
1d3 to 1d6 specific types of meal
Identify: food spoilage
Identify: food borne illness
Preservation: Salts and Pickling
Lore: the table
Procedures: the table

Coroner
Identify: Foul play
Dead body procedure
Advanced preservation
Death rituals
Lore: necromancy

Determination (buffers concentration and willpower checks & can be used in place of them)
Basic police procedure

Councilor
Grief councilor (or) Marriage councilor
Moderate psychology
Identify: spousal abuse
Identify: danger of suicide / homicide
Identify: mental illness
Moderate literacy
(sometimes) basic, moderate, or advanced nobility
1d4 languages

Clothier
Construct: textiles
Operations: Loom
Carpentry
Repair: loom
Assessment: textiles
Weaving & sewing
Embroidery

Crook
1 level of rogue
Chicanery
Seduction
Survival
Escape
Light armor

Crustaceaner
Lobstering
Oystering
Cooking: lobster
Cooking: oyster
Lore: the seashores
Merchant’s cant
(sometimes) sailing
(sometimes) haggling

Dragoner
Identify: Dragon by specific type
Advanced weapon
Advanced armor
Shield wielding
Identify: Fatal injury
Archery (or) Ambush
Endurance
Tracking
Survival

Delicatiser
1d4 to 1d6 meal recipes
Cooking: Delicacy foods
Chocolate making
Lore: delicacy foods
Merchant’s cant
Basic psychology
Procedures: the table

Donjoner
Law: kingdom specific
1d3 languages
Interrogate
Prison procedures
Ransoming (holding someone for and arranging to receive ransom)
Chicanery
Moderate weapon
(sometimes) light (or) heavy armor

Engineer
Siege weapon: 1 specific weapon
Basic weapon
Light armor
Advanced maths
Compounding
Carpentry
Siege weapon operation: 1 specific weapon

Enchanter
Lore: Magic
Engraving
5 levels of mage
Identify: Enchanted weapon
Identify: Enchanted object
Identify: Enchanted armor
Identify: Enchanted person

Emissary
Riding
Moderate weapon
Light armor
Detect: ambush
1 level of warrior
1d3 languages
Royal procedure: messengers

Exchequer
Finances
Identify: fraud
Riding
Moderate weapon
Light armor
Advanced maths
Tax law: Kingdom specific
Weights & Measures
(sometimes) insurance procedures

Extractor
Moderate geology
Refinery: Oils & Lubricants
Underground navigation
Endurance
1 underground-specific language
Identify: Crude-state oils & lubricants
Construct: Oils & Lubricants well
Repair: Oils & Lubricants well

Farmer
Crop farming: specific crop
Animal husbandry: specific animal(s)
Basic meteorology
Cheese-making
Meat processing: specific meat
Basic structural repair – thatch, stone, wood
Basic weapon
Leatherworking
Hunting/Fishing

Fireman (disaster operations means they know what to do to prevent/fight, not cause)
Disaster operations: house fire
Disaster operations: forest fire
Endurance
Wound care: burn specific
Identify: danger of disastrous fire
Moderate weapon
Controlled burn
Teamwork

Front line military
Heavy armor
2 advanced weapons
Shield wielding
Identify: fatal injury
Moderate military
Identify: potential spy
Trench-working
Survival
Hedge wizard
1 level of mage
Herbalism
Survival
Basic weapon
Light armor
Lore: Earth magic

Highwayman
Intimidation
Riding
Moderate weapon
Light (or) heavy armor
Chicanery
Archery
(sometimes) shield wielding
Survival

Husbandman
Animal care & feeding: 3 animals
Identify illness: veterinary
Herding
Cheese-making
Survival
Basic weapon
Light armor

Justice of the peace
Moderate logic
Advanced literacy
Etiquette & Protocol: Courtroom
Law: 1d3 kingdoms
Court-room Procedures
Moderate nobility
Scribe’s cant
Identify: Foul play

Knight
1 level of warrior
Riding
Patchworking
Moderate weapon
Heavy armor
Basic military

Lawyer
Basic logic
Moderate literacy
Law: kingdom specific
Court-room procedures
Defense (or) Prosecution
Researching
Arguing (in the court-room sense)
(sometimes) Scribe’s cant

Lumberjack
Moderate weapon
Endurance
Survival
Dendrology
Identify: cash valued tree
Identify illness: Trees & plants
Basic meteorology
Camping

Lunar guard (part of a special detachment of city guards that only patrols at night)
Night navigation
Basic law
Light armor or heavy armor
Moderate weapon
Lore: Crime
Lore: monsters of the environs
Moderate military
Military procedure

Mason
Advanced maths
Moderate geology
Supervision (as in supervising, not super VISION)
Architecture
Finances
Stonework building
Stonework repair

Merchant
Persuade
Haggle
Basic weapon
Forgery
Chicanery (this skill allows lie detection and thats its primary use)
Merchant’s cant

Mercenary
Basic weapon
Light or heavy armor
Shield wielding
Cloak & dagger
Chicanery
Wound care
Survival
2 languages
1 level of warrior

Midwife
Basic gynecology
Herbalism
Moderate surgery
Basic psychology
Basic medicine
Compounding

Miner
Underground navigation
Survival
Endurance
Basic geology
Cave construction
Cave repair
Basic weapon x 2
1 underground specific language

Money changer
Chicanery
Moderate maths
Lore: commerce
1d3 languages
Weights & measures
Economic trend analysis
Market procedures (getting a license to operate, knowing who to talk to about crime, etc)
Merchant’s cant

Mythologist
Mythos: 1d3 cultures
2 dead languages
2 living languages
Advanced literacy
Composition: Academic book
Etiquette & Protocol: Divines (this means you know what to do if the divines appear in person)

Naturalist
Sailing (or) riding
Advanced literacy
Preserving: Pickled specimen
Trapping: animal, non-fatal
Research
1d3 languages
Basic weapon
Composition: Academic book
Dredging (only if they have sailing, this is a skill that allows net-casting to depths to retrieve caught animals)

Nomad
Herbalism
Survival
Basic weapon x 2
Animal husbandry: specific animal (only 1)
Leatherworking
Hunting/Fishing
Basic meteorology
Light armor

Non-celibate clergy
Church procedures
Etiquette & Protocol: Houses of worship
Proselytizing
Moderate literacy
Religious language
Religious doctrine
Identify: Heretic
Identify: Enemy of the faith
Rituals: Birth
Rituals: Marriage
Rituals: Death
Rituals: Battle
Basic (or) Moderate (or) Advanced Nobility
(sometimes) Identify: Devil
(sometimes) Exorcism

Officer
2 levels of warrior
Riding
Moderate weapon
Light or Heavy armor
Moderate military
Basic gun (if guns are used, if not, substitute in archery)
Basic tactics

Official
Basic nobility
Etiquette and Protocol: court specific
Moderate maths
Chicanery
Cloak & Dagger
1d3 languages
Socializing
Moderate weapon
Light or heavy armor

Pirate
moderate sailing
Survival
Fishing
Gunnery (if cannons are used, substitute in archery if not)
+3 to dexterity
Light or heavy armor
2 levels of rogue
1 level of warrior
Thieve’s cant (a language used by thieves to talk in code)

Prostitute
Seduction
Chicanery
Basic weapon
Street smarts
Persuade
Identify illness: venereal type
(sometimes) Thieve’s cant (or) Whaler’s cant

Politician
Leadership
Bribery
Chicanery
Seduction
Finance
Historical lore: race specific (or) kingdom specific
Government procedures
Advanced literacy

Rancher
Animal husbandry: specific riding animal
Identify illness: veterinary, specific riding animal
Taming: specific riding animal
Moderate weapon
Light armor
Survival
Endurance

Royal navy
Advanced sailing
Survival
Advanced weapon
Light or heavy armor
Gunnery (if cannons are used, archery if not)
Basic military
2 extra languages
Climb: Ropes
Naval procedure

Ruler
Leadership
Law: Kingdom specific
Cloak & Dagger
Etiquette & Protocol: Ruling class
Etiquette & Protocol: court specific
Socializing
Advanced nobility
Moderate maths
Moderate literacy
Advanced weapon
Light (or) heavy armor
(sometimes) shield wielding
(sometimes) Identify: potential traitors

Sage
4 levels of mage
1 dead language
2 languages
Transcription
Advanced ciphering
Advanced maths
Advanced literacy
Composition: Academic book

Scribe
Advanced literacy
Advanced maths
Transcription
Book-binding
Proof-reading
Scribe’s cant (a language used by scribes internationally)
Ink-mixing
Basic ciphering

Search-find
Tracking
Survival
Memory for details
Contracts
Retrieval & Ransoming Procedures
Identify: Potential kidnappers
Detect: Ambush
Advanced weapon
Light armor

Sheriff
Police procedure
moderate law
Moderate weapon
Light or heavy armor
Basic leadership
Basic forensics
Etiquette and protocol

Skald (skalds are a military order of bards attached to soldier units, it is a military post)
2 instruments
Historical lore: (race of character)
2 languages
Moderate weapon
Composition: Epic (or) Ballad
Light armor
(sometimes) shield wielding

Skulk-body
Disguise
Chicanery
Tracking
Identify: strongest resistor
1d3 languages
Thieve’s cant
Detect: ambush
Basic weapon

Smith
Blacksmithing
Endurance
Basic weapon
Armoring
Weapon making
Moderate maths (for knowing how much of each metal to use)
Alloying (rare skill)

Sneak-thief
Lockpicking
Pickpocket
Thieve’s cant
Fence (as in selling stolen goods)
Lore: crime
Chicanery
Seduction
Basic weapon

Slaver
Sales: Sentients
Disarming
Traps: humanoid non-fatal
1d3 languages
Sailing (or) riding
Light armor
Moderate weapon
Merchant’s cant
Identify: valuable slaves

Slayer
Graveyard procedures
Lore: necromancy
Law: kingdom specific
Moderate weapon
Heavy armor
Identify: vampire
Identify: lich
Identify: ghost

Spy
Cloak & Dagger (this is a catch-all that covers many forms of info-gathering)
Chicanery
Seduction
Poisoning
Moderate weapon
Light armor
3 levels of rogue
2 languages

Steward
Structural maintaining: Estate
Structural repair: Estate
Finances
Servantry (this means you know how to manage servants or slaves)
Hospitality
1d3 languages
Identify: unwanted visitor
Defender: Estate
Basic weapon
Identify: problem servant

Taverner
Bartending
Mixing drinks
1d4 languages
Lore: The tavern
Brawling

Tinker
Toy-maker (or) clock-maker
Fine manual labor
+3 to dexterity
Moderate maths
Moderate literacy
Identify: non-magical automaton
Construct: non-magical automaton
Repair: non-magical automaton

Teacher (note: teacher may choose literacy, maths, rhetoric, or logic to move to advanced initially and be their main teaching subject)
Moderate literacy
Moderate maths
Instruction (this means you know how to teach someone something)
Moderate rhetoric
Moderate logic
Scholarly procedure (you know how to run a classroom)
(sometimes) scribe’s cant

Temple knight
Heavy armor
Religious doctrine: religion specific
Proselytizing
Moderate weapon
Riding
Shield wielding
Religious language: religion specific
(sometimes) basic clergy magic
(sometimes) basic medicine

Translator
Basic psychology
Face reading
1d3 languages
Enunciation
Basic nobility
Etiquette & protocol: court specific
Diplomacy

Trooper
Performance: Acting
Stage procedures (as in theatre stage)
Disguise
Chicanery
(sometimes) light armor
Basic weapon
Entertaining
1d3 languages

Waste-worker
Refuse handling: hazardous
Lore: sewers
Underground navigation
Moderate weapon
Light (or) heavy armor
Shield-wielding
Endurance

Wainwright
Construction: Wagons & Chariots
Repair: Wagons & Chariots
Carpentry
Endurance
Wood curing (processes wood to achieve color and density, cured wood is slightly stronger than non-cured wood)
Camping

Wildsman
Trapping: Pelt animal
Leatherworking
Survival
Endurance
Moderate weapon
Archery
Light (or) heavy armor
Navigation: by stars
Identify: military’s path
Identify: Natural fortress

Whaler
Moderate sailing
Butchery
Basic weapon
Thrown weapon: Harpoon
1 level of warrior
Climbing: Ropes
Aquatic lore: whale
Aquatic lore: sea monster
Fishing
Whaler’s cant (a language used by whalers internationally)

Verminate
Drive out: Rat
Drive out: Bat
Drive out: Flea
Operations: handheld smoke-puffer
Identify: Vermin borne illness
Identify: Ideal conditions for vermin

Yeoman
Basic weapon
Basic archery
Survival
Endurance
Chicanery
Evading (specific land-type; I.E. evading in swamp, forest, or mountain for example)
1 level of rogue
1 level of warrior