Skills

If you're looking for the basic rules you should start with the Quickstart Rules.

Skills are a major way in which you customise your character, deciding what special skills they have that set them apart from others.

Skills are divided into Disciplines and General skills. They are also divided into Combat and Profession skills.

Combat skills are directly usable in combat or for survival. Profession skills are rarely useful in combat and are used in investigation, problem solving or social interactions.

You can take skills for any Discipline that you've unlocked, but some skills are Signature skills. You can only choose Signature skills of your Primary Discipline.

Free Skills

Every Player Character starts with these.

One-Handed Training	You can use one melee weapon of 8”-42”.
First Aid	With 30 seconds of stationary touch range appropriate roleplay with both hands you can HEAL another character. With 5 seconds of touch range appropriate roleplay inspecting a character you can ask "OC are you incapacitated, terminal or dead?".

Combat Skills

Skill	Prerequisite	Signature	Description
Tough		No	One extra hit point.
Second Combat Discipline		No	Unlock a second Discipline for combat skills.
Third Combat Discipline		No	Unlock a third Discipline for combat skills.
Power Field	Tesla Discipline	Yes	Two extra hit points, one melee RESIST, +5 seconds Ability Cooldown
Advanced Power Field	Tesla Discipline	Yes	Two extra hit points, one melee RESIST, +5 seconds Ability Cooldown
Tesla Stun	Tesla Discipline	No	⚡Charged MASS TECH STUN
Tesla Repel	Tesla Discipline	No	⚡Charged MASS TECH REPEL
Tesla Strike	Tesla Discipline	No	⚡Charged MASS TECH BASH {{Active}Melee TECH BASH
Tech Shield	Analytical Discipline	Yes	Two TECH RESISTs
Quick Mind	Analytical Discipline	Yes	Once per encounter you can use an Analytical ⚡ability off cooldown.
Heal	Analytical Discipline	No	⚡HEAL other at touch range. ⚡Charged HEAL self.
Analytical Strike	Analytical Discipline	No	⚡TECH BASH
Analytical Suppression	Analytical Discipline	No	⚡TECH SUPPRESS
Danger Sense	Intuition Discipline	Yes	Two ranged RESISTs (except Would You Kindly or EFFECT)
Danger Awareness	Danger Sense	Yes	One extra hit point ⚡Regain a ranged RESIST.
Finesse Weapon Proficiency	Intuition Discipline	No	You can use a melee weapon of 8"-42" in your off-hand. You can use thrown weapons. You can use a Buckler.
Finesse Stun	Intuition Discipline	No	⚡BACKSTAB STUN ⚡STUN with a thrown weapon or melee weapon under 24".
Finesse Suppression	Intuition Discipline	No	⚡BACKSTAB SUPPRESS ⚡SUPPRESS with a thrown weapon or a melee weapon under 24"
Armour	Survival Discipline	Yes	One extra hit point, one non-TECH RESIST
Advanced Armour	Armour	Yes	One extra hit point, one non-TECH RESIST.
Grit Weapon Proficiency	Survival Discipline	No	You can use melee weapons of 42"-60". You can use a Buckler.
Polearm Proficiency	Grit Weapon Proficiency	No	You can use melee weapons of 60"-84".
Weapon Prowess	Survival Discipline	No	⚡Two melee BASHes. ⚡"Would You Kindly attack me instead"
Grit Weapon Expertise	Survival Discipline	No	⚡STUN with a melee weapon 42"-60". ⚡REPEL with a melee weapon 8"-42". ⚡REPEL with a sshield block. ⚡"Would You Kindly attack me instead"

Profession Skills

Skill	Prerequisite	Signature	Description
Income		No	Gain an extra income each interactive.
Second Profession Discipline		No	Unlock a second profession discipline.
Third Profession Discipline		No	Unlock a third profession discpline.
Destruction	Tesla Discipline	No	Destroy resilient objects.
Scramble Effect	Tesla Discipline	No	Destroy lesser EFFECTs or break down big EFFECTs into smaller ones.
Protective Field	Tesla Discipline	No	Create an EFFECT on an area to contain or keep out dangers.
Create Device	Tesla Discipline	Yes	Create devices for yourself or the party.
Empower	Tesla Discipline	No	Empower skills to be an order of magnitude wider or longer lasting.
Technical Analysis	Analytical Discipline	No	Analyse technological items.
Summon and Link AI	Analytical Discipline	Yes	Summon Analytical Intelligences and link them to characters.
Isolate	Analytical Discipline	No	Isolate a character or item to cut it off from technological communication.
Cryptographer	Analytical Discipline	No	Send secure and anonymous messages.
Automaton Engineer	Analytical Discipline	No	Alleviate wounds and tinker with automata.
Investigate	Intuition Discpline	No	Analyse a location or problem to get clues about it.
Smooth Talker	Intuition Discpline	No	Defuse fights and discern truth.
Hearts and Minds	Intuition Discpline	No	Cause emotions by talking to people.
Iron Will	Intuition Discpline	No	Resist emotion and mind control effects.
Instil Mantra	Intuition Discpline	Yes	Instil mantras into other characters.
Scout	Survival Discpline	No	Analyse mundane items and get clues about what lies ahead.
Scavenge	Survival Discpline	No	Dismantle items and dead creatures for resources
Smuggler	Survival Discpline	No	You can conceal items on your person.
Medicine	Survival Discpline	No	Alleviate and treat wounds. Analyse corpses.
Pharmacy	Survival Discpline	Yes	Create pharmaceuticals