Skills are things characters can do.
Common RPG Skills
Types of RPG Skills
Knowledge / Intelligence Skills
Knowledge skills allow PC's to gather additional knowledge beyond the GM's initial descriptions.
There are generally two types of knowledge skills: skills that a character has by a type of practice or training, and those they have by special training.
The first type cover things a character of a certain trade or activity (hunting) would know simply because they have this type of experience.
The second type requires special training in an area a character doesn't already have experience in. For example, a hunter acquires a knowledge of anatomy first by preparing animals for food, while a doctor gains a knowledge of anatomy first by education.
Crafting Skills
Crafting skills are skills in which the character creates something, or otherwise puts something through a process which changes the qualities of that object.
All crafting skills require access to necessary tools and materials.
Fire-Making is technically a crafting skill because a character creates fire with it.
RPG Skill List
A
- Acrobatics
- Alchemy
- Anatomy
- Ancient History
- Ancient Language
- Animal Call
- Animal Handling
- Animal Training
- Animal Lore
- Anthropology
- Appraising
- Arcane Lore
- Astrology
- Armorer
- Artistry
B
- Balancing
- Barter
- Blackmail
- Berserk
- Blacksmith
- Blind Fighting
- Bluff
- Boating
- Body Language
- Boxing
- Breath Control
- Brewing
- Bribe
- Bullfighting
C
- Calligraphy
- Camping
- Camouflage
- Carpentry
- Cartography
- Cobbling
- Computer Operation
- Climbing
- Concealment
- Contortion
- Cooking
- Counterfeiting
- Cryptography
D
- Dancing
- Dead Language
- Deceit
- Demolition
- Detect Lie
- Diagnosis
- Disarm Traps
- Detect Traps
- Detect Vice
- Detect Lie
- Diplomacy
- Disarm Opponent
- Disguise
- Double-Handed Combat
- Driving
E
F
- Falconry
- Farming
- Fencing
- Fire Breathing
- Fire-Making
- First Aid
- Fishing
- Fletcher
- Flirting
- Folklore
- Fortune Telling
G
H
I
J
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
- Scribe
- SCUBA Diving
- Scrounging
- Sculpting
- Seamanship
- Secret Language
- Security Systems
- Seduction
- Set Snares
- Sewing
- Signaling
- Sign Language
- Slight of Hand
- Snake Charming
- Sniper
- Spell Craft
- Sociology
- Soldiering
- Speed-Load
- Spelunking
- Shadowing
- Stealth
- Steganography
- Streetwise
- Stonemasonry
- Storytelling
- Stunt Driver
- Survival
- Swimming