Tabletop Skills

Skills are things one can learn or train to be able to do. Unlike abilities they are less supernatural in nature.

--------------Main Skills----------------

Players can select one of these when they create a character. More of these can be gained with the proper methods.

* Wilderness Survival: The skill to survive and find things out in the wilderness. This includes tracking animals. Foraging for foods, and other such things. One with this skill knows very much about how to roam the land.
* Medical Skills: The knowledge and skill to perform various medical procedures or diagnose and treat sicknesses. One with this skill can also identify and understand many medicines or ingredients used to make medicines.
* Thievery: The skills of a thief or con man. These skills allow one to Steal more effectively and pick locks. Also, the ability to move quietly without being noticed.
* Great Cooking Skills: With skills to match someone with the "Cook" ability. This person can make many dishes with the proper ingredients. This skill is earned though lots of training and practice. They still may not be able to do everything a person with the "Cook" ability can, but the can certainly whip up a nice meal anyway! Includes many normal foods.
* Craftsmanship: With the proper tools one can make many mundane things. From furniture to some tools. Woodworking, maybe some blacksmithing. Crafting with this skill takes time, about a day to make something, but it will be made well. Note that abilities make things far quicker.
* Mercantile Specialty: Knowledge and skills in trading and buying more than the average person. Things like trade routes and currency fluctuations. Many business things are known to this person. Some secrets are also known that only seasoned traders, buyers, and sellers may know.

--------------Minor Skills---------------

Players can select two of these when they create a character. More of these can be gained with the proper methods.

* Magic Tricks: The skills to wonder and amaze someone with a small trick of some kind. Sometimes these require props such as cards or coins.
* Antique Identification: The skills to know and identify various older objects and their value and use.
* History knowledge: Knowledge of more than just well-known things. One who knows history can recall several facts or things about various events in the past.
* Culture Knowledge: Knowing many things about cultures other than the one the person comes from. This can include many things from etiquette to things a little lesser known.
* Farming: The skill that allows one to plant, grow, and harvest plants or other farmable materials. The person with this skill also has knowledge of growing seasons for certain plants as well as how to take care of them.
* Mining: The skill based on finding ore, crystals, or other things by digging in stone. This person knows a lot about rock and minerals and can find materials just from the way the earth looks.
* Ancient Language Translation: The skill and knowledge to translate ancient texts and reliefs into a modern-day understandable language.

------------Cooking Skills----------------

Aside from basic cooking, other skills can be picked up. Since cook is both a skill and ability both these people may pick up extra tricks along the way. Someone who knows cooking may have one cooking style and one extra skill to start with.

* Super Tasting: A skill to taste foods and figure out what exactly what things were used to make it.
* Deceptive Decoration: The skill to make foods look like other things.
* Magic Foods: Foods with special effects or tricks.

For more examples of Skills, look see this page: skills, or if there is something missing you can add it as a skill. Just make sure everyone agrees to you using it as one.