Specialty List

The following document lists numerous possibilities for players to choose a specialty for any given Attribute or Ability.

## Attributes

Included below are possible specialties for characters who’s Attributes exceed Level 5. This allows a superhuman being to capitalize on his natural ability. Such specialties are listed under the Legendary lists.

### Physical

**Strength:** able-bodied, broad shoulders, brutish, buff, bulging biceps, focus power, hearty, hulking, husky, large, lifting, long jumping, massive, mighty, powerful, puissant, ripped, rocklike fists, solid, steel grip, sustained carrying, wiry

Legendary: crushing, draconic, herculean, monstrous, titanic

**Dexterity:** agile, athletic, catlike reflexes, coordinated, deft, delicate, fleet-footed, flexible, graceful, gymnastic, light touch, limber, lithe, nimble, perfect balance, quick, smooth-motioned, steady, supple, sure-footed, swift, willowy

Legendary: elastic, fluid, lightning fast, rhythmic, mercurial

**Stamina:** aggressive, dedicated, determined, durable, enduring, forceful, formidable, hardy constitution, hell-bent, high-pain threshold, resilient, relentless, robust, stalwart, steadfast, stubborn, sturdy, tenacious, tireless, tough, unmovable, unyielding

Legendary: diamond-hard, hard-boiled, insusceptible, marathonic

### Social

**Charisma:** amusing, captivating, charming, classy, commanding, compelling, confidant, congenial, cultured, diplomatic, eloquent, folksy, genial, gracious, gregarious, inspiring, irresistible, magnetic, outgoing, pleasant, regal, rustic, savoir-faire, sensual, smooth, sophisticated, sweet, trustworthy, urbane, well-mannered, winsome

Legendary: exalted, rapturous, saintly, sublime, unearthly

**Manipulation:** blarney, bravado, calculating, charming, conspiratorial, controlling, crafty, cunning, deceitful, devious, double-talker, eloquent, expressive, forked tongue, glib, influential, ingratiating, legalese, logical, Machiavellian, maneuvering, patient, persuasive, remorseless, resourceful, scheming, silver-tongued, slick, sly, smooth, sophist, subtle, tactful, underhanded, witty

Legendary: ambrosial, devilish, irrefutable, punctilious, puppeteering

**Appearance:** alluring, beautiful, bold demeanor, captivating, comely, cuddly, curvaceous, cute, delightful, dignified, erotic, exotic, fragility, glamorous, gorgeous, handsome, honest face, hot, imposing, innocent, inspiring, look of the eagles, luminous, noble, pleasing, pornographic, pretty, provocative, roguish, seductive, sensual, sexy, shapely, slinky, striking, stunning, stylish, wild

Legendary: ageless, apollonian, bewitching, divine, dreamy, immaculate, jaw-dropping, terrifying

### Mental

**Perception:** apprehensive, astute, attentive, canny, clueful, detail-oriented, discerning, empathic, feral, insightful, instinctive, intuitive, keen-eyed, observant, paranoid, patient, probing, sensitive, sharp hearing, vigilant, visionary, wary, watchful

Legendary: clairaudient, clairvoyant, enlightened, presentient, umbrageous

**Intelligence:** analytical, astute, bookworm, brilliant, calculating, clear thinker, cognitive, creative, discerning, discriminating, erudite, genius, innovative, inventive, knowledgeable, logical, plotting, pragmatic, rational, researcher, resourceful, sagacious, savvy, scheming, scholarly, scientific, sharp memory

Legendary: fertile-minded, labyrinthe, omniscient, utopian

**Wits:** apt, calculating, clear-headed, clever, combat nerves, creative, direct, extemporaneous, flexible, free association, impulsive, instinctive, insults, jumpy, levelheaded, one step ahead, practical, quick, reactive, resourceful, sharp, shrewd, skillful, spontaneous, survival, wily

Legendary: adroit, pre-emptive, supercomputer, unconscious

## Abilities

### Talents

**Alertness:** ambushes, bodyguarding, crowds, danger sense, forests, noises, paranoia, point guard, search, spectres, streets, traps, vigilance

**Athletics:** acrobatics, aerobics, bicycles, body building, climbing, general fitness, running, swimming, team sports, track & field, tumbling, any specific sport, dodge

**Awareness:** animals, aura reading, byways, dragon (ley) lines, dragon nests (nodes/caerns), haunted houses, spirits, talismans, true jade, the undead

**Brawl:** armlocks, body slams, boxing, disarms, dirty fighting, fancy fighting, grappling, gratuitous violence, kicks, knights, multiple opponents, on home territory, punches, showing off, sparring, wrestling

**Empathy:** backgrounds, deep motivations, emotions, family problems, fears, love connections, personalities, spirits, truths

**Expression:** after-dinner speaking, comedy, game design, impromptu, innuendo, meetings, mimicry, off-the-cuff remarks, poetry, politics, prose, rabble-rousing, radical, talk radio, (see below)

**Instruction:** drill sergeant, lore, metaphysics, rites of passage, traditions, university, any specific Ability

**Intimidation:** battle cry (kiai), icy stare, implied pain, massive property damage, military, overt violence, political, social, veiled threats

**Intuition:** animal instinct, discernment, dumb luck, flashes of inspiration, gambling, insightful, nose for trouble

**Leadership:** brainstorming, commands, compelling, dictatorial, field leadership, friendly, gain trust, long-term planning, military, noble, oration, sway opinion

**Streetwise:** chicken strips, drugs, fencing, finding info, gangs, nightclubs, picking pockets, slang terms, trashpicking

**Subterfuge:** baldfaced lying, changing the subject, diversions, false testimony, fast talk, financial scams, finding weaknesses, flattery, gossip, innuendo, intrigue, little white lies, seduction, selective omission

#### Talents (Secondary)

**Expression (Artistic):** abstract, caricature, charcoal, classical, decoration, folk art, impressionist, kinetic, lighting artist, metals, miniatures, mixed media, models, oils, photo-realism, resin, sketching, set design, stone, watercolors, wood

**Expression (Oral):** anecdotes, ballads, demagoguery, epics, folk tales, homiletics, inspirational, jokes, lies, proverbs, speeches, true stories, vote-catching

**Expression (Poetic):** blank verse, classical forms, deadlines, deathless art, editing, extemporaneous, jingles, journalism, limericks, lyric writing, novel, short fiction, scripts

### Skills

**Animal Ken:** animal husbandry, cats, dogs, farm animals, horses, parrots, raptors, wild animals

**Crafts:** blacksmithing, candlemaking, carpentry, detail, engraving, evaluate, inscription, inventive, leatherworking, machinery, organization, pottery, sculpture, sewing, stonemasonry, swordsmithing, woodworking, working quickly, (see below)

**Drive:** bad weather, construction vehicles, curves, evading pursuit, farm equipment, heavy traffic, ice, limos, motorcycles, off-road, race cars, stick shifts, stunts, sudden stops, tailing, trucks

**Etiquette:** business, compromise, correspondence, dining, foreign customs, formality, high society, negotiation, seduction, shen courts, soirees, street culture

**Firearms:** custom ammo, fast reload, handguns, heavy weapons, machine guns, quick draw, rifles, shoot-outs, shotguns, sniping, sprays, trick shots

**Martial Arts:** acrobatics, animal styles, chi-channeling, chops, counters, elbows, kicks, knees, leg sweeps, locks, pressure points, punches, sparring, throws

**Meditation:** biofeedback, centering, enduring elements, foci, mantras, mudras, new age, rage, relaxation, resisting hunger, staying motionless, tantric, transcendental, virtual reality, willpower, yogic, zen, any specific sense

**Melee:** axes, blunt objects, chains, clubs, disarms, knives, improvised, staff, swords

**Performance:** action films, enchant audience, evoke emotion, guitar solos, hardcore, juggling, religious awe, roleplay, storytelling, villains, while drunk, (see below)

**Research:** arcane collections, folklore, online data, oral traditions, any specific Knowledge

**Security:** burglar alarms, cat burglary, computer systems, design, electronics, fast, hot-wiring, hypertech, light-based systems, prisons, safe-cracking, speed, silently, tricks, vaults

**Stealth:** camouflage, city, concealment, crawling, crowds, floors, follow, hide, lurk, prowl, shadows, silent movement, wilderness

**Survival:** arctic, desert, foraging, hunting, jungle, marsh, scavenging, tracking, urban

**Technology:** appliances, automobiles, computers, electricity, electronics, engines, invention, magickal devices, security systems, transports, (see below)

#### Skills (Secondary)

**Crafts (Blacksmith):** armormaking, art, blademaking, cast iron, pattern-welding, spot-welding, toolmaking, wrought iron

**Craft (Blood Preparation):** easy-to-prepare meals, intoxicants, Kindred poisons, recognizing/analyzing tastes, spices

**Craft (Body Alteration):** arms, coloration, designs, moliation, piercings, splittings, vicissitude

**Craft (Brewing/Distilling):** beer, fairy brews, industrial alcohol, mead, moonshine, spirits, wine

**Craft (Carpentry):** construction, furniture, quality items, repairs

**Craft (Chi-Shaping):** fooling spirits, pure ephemera, a specific elemental manifestation, a particular context (color, texture variation, etc.)

**Craft (Cooking):** bread, Cajun, campside, Chinese, Chow, cordon bleu, desserts, French, Indian, Italian, pastries

**Craft (Farming):** barley, corn, cotton, exotic, fruits, green veggies, maintaining equipment, management, out-of-season products, rice, tobacco, traditional, wheat

**Craft (Gardening):** bonsai, bushes, flowers, inside plants, trees, wild fauna, zen gardens

**Craft (Glassworking):** artistic, cobalt, dishes, repair

**Craft (Gunsmith):** black powder weapons, field repair, invention, magnum/supercharged ammo, specialty ammo

**Craft (Interior Decoration):** architectural blending, feng shui, minimalism, neatness, new age

**Craft (Jeweler):** antique, appraisal, crystal, gems, gold, platinum, silver

**Craft (Leatherworking):** armor, clothing, riding tack, special-interest items, utensils

**Craft (Origami):** airplanes, animals, birds, boats, towers

**Craft (Pottery):** models, moldings, sculptures, vessels

**Craft (Scribing):** ancient languages, calligraphy, decorative techniques

**Craft (Stewardship):** bartending, cleaning, organization, paperwork, parties, porter

**Craft (Stonemasonry):** artistic, construction, digging, floor work, tiles

**Craft (Taxidermy):** embalming, preserving, tanning, techniques of Frankenstein, trophies, victims

**Craft (Weaponsmith):** arrows, blades, bows, flexible weapons, personalized, staffs

**Performance (Acting):** comedy, faked emotions, impersonation, improvisation, mimicry, misdirection, religious awe, seduction, silver screen, stage, TV

**Performance (Dancing):** ballet, disco, ecstatic, ethnic, foxtrot, jazz, latin, modern, polka, show, swing, tribal, two-step, waltz

**Performance (Instrumental):** composition, orchestra, solos, any specific instrument

**Performance (Singing):** bawdy songs, chanting, church, easy listening, lyrics, musicals, pop, opera, ritual, rock

**Technology (Biotech):** biomechanisms, cloning, cybernetics, floronics, genegineering, nanontech, radical modification, repair

**Technology (Electronics):** control systems, information systems, radio/TV

**Technology (Hypertech):** anarchtech, computers, earthbound vehicles, etherite theories, improvisation, microtech, netgear, repair, weaponsmith

**Technology (Jury-Rig):** bench thumping, found objects, high-tech, MacGuyver miracles, repairs, scraps

**Technology (Mechanic):** cars, domestic, electrical, inventions

### Knowledges

**Academics:** education, grammar, history, mathematics, philosophy, theology, (see below)

**Computer:** coding, data shredding, design, graphics, hacking, hardware, retrieving data, surfing, virus programs

**Cosmology:** astral travel, byways, celestines, deep dreaming, deep umbra, denizens, dragon (ley) lines, horizon, incarna, the labyrinth, navigation, near dreaming, near umbra, realms, shadowlands, tempest, trods, weird shit

**Culture:** politics, religion, taboos, any specific societal group (“ghetto”, yuppie, bushmen, Traditions, Camarilla, etc.)

**Enigmas:** ancient, crime mysteries, koans, life, riddles, satori, twisted plots, verbal, visual, wordplay

**Esoterica:** Yoga, Tantra, Herbalism, Kabbalah, Fortune-Telling, Hypnosis, Astrology, Celestiography, Demonology, Sacred Geometry, Gematria, Goetia, Prophecies, Omens, T’ai Chi, I Ching, Stone Lore, Alchemy, Symbolism, Transhumanist Theory, Esoteric Musicology, Bakemono-Jutsu, Iconology, Numerology, Voodoo, Crystalmancy, Tarot, specific arcane languages (Enochian, In-o-Musubi, the Language of Flowers, etc.)

**Investigation:** collecting evidence, criminal minds, detective work, document research, forensics, locate informant, prowl, search, serial killers, tail

**Law:** bending the rules, courts, contract, copyright, corporate, criminal, customs, defense, divorce, federal agencies, international agencies, jurisdictions, law offices, litigation, local beat, occult crimes, police procedure, prosecution, punishments, real estate, tax codes, any specific supernatural society (Technocracy, faeries, Sabbat, etc.)

**Linguistics:** curse words, diplomatic, “dead tongues”, epithets, perfect accent, political, romance, reading ancient texts, simultaneous translation, technical, theatrical

**Medicine:** acupuncture, bedside manner, childbirth, disease, emergency care, herbal, holistic, homeopathy, paramedics, pharmaceutical, physical therapy, poison treatment, psychiatry, surgery, traditional, any specialized field (neurology, oncology, pediatrics, etc.)

**Metaphysics:** alchemy, astrology, divination, eschatology, gematria, herbalism, numerology, sacred geometry, sacred tongues, thanatology, (see below)

**Occult:** angelology, cults, curses, fairies, famous researchers, folk magic, ghosts, new agism, predictions, qaballah, Satanism, spells, talismans, vampires, witches

**Politics:** bluffing, bribery, bureaucracy, bypassing the system, city, coalition building, congress, delay, diplomatic, dogma, elections, grass-roots, heraldry, international, intrigue, national, negotiation, neighborhood, nihilism, oration, radical, realpolitik, shen courts

**Science:** astronomy, biology, botany, chemistry, engineering, metallurgy, nuclear physics, physics, practical applications, relativity, theoretical, (see below)

#### Knowledges (Secondary)

**Academics (Accounting):** governmental, large corporation, small business, taxes

**Academics (Architecture):** gothic, houses, office buildings, public works

**Academics (Business):** advertising, bookwork, competition, personnel, tax cuts, visionary

**Academics (Classics):** Chronicles of the Monkey King, Confucius, Homer, Lo Shu, Tao Te Hsien, Yomi tomes

**Academics (Economics):** international, laissez-faire, private sector, public sector, stock markets, taxes

**Academics (Ethnology):** adaptability, economic dynamics, environmental changes, legal evolution

**Academics (Finance):** accounting, black markets, bonds, buyouts, corporations, currency, fencing, futures, investments, international trade, laws, litigation, secrets, stock markets, takeovers

**Academics (Fine Arts):** American, classical, ethnographic, impressionists, masters, primitive, Renaissance

**Academics (Heraldry):** mercantile, modern, a specific nation, a specific period

**Academics (History):** Africa, Americas, artistic, Asia, Australia, classical, economic, European, intellectual, medieval, modern, political, renaissance, social, technological

**Academics (Literature):** American, Asian, classical, drama, English, European, Islamic, medieval, novels, poetry, short stories, a specific genre

**Academics (Logic):** computer applications, philosophy, puzzles

**Academics (Mythology):** afterlife, Celtic, cosmologies, creation myths, eschatologies, Greek, Native American, Norse, Persian, soteriologies

**Academics (Paleography):** bibliography, diplomatics, epigraphy, sigillography

**Academics (Philosophy):** Aristotle, astika, empiricism, ethics, existentialism, idealism, legalism, Marxism, Nietzsche, nihilism, perceptions, Platonian, rationalism, Socratean, Taoism, utilitarianism, Zen

**Academics (Theology):** agnosticism, animism, Branch Davidian, Buddhism, Christianity, comparative, deism, Hinduism, Judaism, liberation, Muslim, syncretionism, theaology

**Science (Anthropology):** ancient, physical, social, theoretical, a specific culture

**Science (Archaeology):** Central America, classical, Egyptian, excavation, paleoecology, paleopathology, prehistoric Europe, underwater archeology

**Science (Astronomy):** big bang theory, black holes, dark matter, galaxies, nebulae, novas, planets, quasars, extrasolar systems

**Science (Biology):** botany, microbiology, paleontology, zoology

**Science (Chemistry):** analysis, biochemistry, inorganic, molecular, organic, safety

**Science (Criminology):** criminal psychology, Jack the Ripper, serial killings, unsolved crimes

**Science (Cryptography):** ancient styles, black ops, decryption, letter shifts, mathematical encryption, military secrecy, morse code, mystical codes, obscure character sets, secret languages, software encryption, weird logic

**Science (Ecology):** biosphere management, climate change, endangered species, global warming, rainforests

**Science (Engineering):** air, automotive, domestic, invention, maintenance/repair, marine

**Science (Forensics):** ballistics, fingerprints, pathology, scene of crime

**Science (Genetics):** biochemistry, cloning, defects, diseases, genegineering, microbiology

**Science (Geology):** engineering, geomorphology, paleontology, petrology, prospecting, volcanology

**Science (Mathematics):** calculus, imaginary numbers, mechanics, pure mathematics, statistics, syntax

**Science (Metallurgy):** copper alloys, conductions, experimental, high-stress alloys, iron, steel

**Science (Meteorology):** local area, predictions, theoretical, TV

**Science (Naturalism):** arctic, coastal, desert, forest, jungle, mountains, plains

**Science (Parapsychology):** hauntings, ley lines, psychic powers

**Science (Pharmacopoeia):** herbal meds, hypermeds, magical brews, mundane meds, psychoactives, street drugs

**Science (Physics):** aerodynamics, applied, astrophysics, electronics, hydrodynamics, kinetics, mechanics, nuclear, optics, thermodynamics, theoretical

**Science (Plague-Breeding):** African strains, black death, biological warfare, mass devastation

**Science (Psychology):** animals, applied theories, behaviorism, children, cognitive, developmental, dreams, experimental, Freudian, Jungian, humanist, psychiatry, questioning

**Science (Sociology):** corporate applications, deviance, dialectical materialism, gender roles, globalization, labeling, postmodernism, social evolution, stratification

**Science (Toxicology):** analysis, antidotes, chemical poisons, instant poisons, magical, plant-based poisons, slow-build poisons, undetectable poisons, venoms, Yomi toxins