Primary Skills
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Skills are Abilities learned through training, apprenticeships or other instruction. If you try to perform an action involving a Skill in which you have no rating, your difficulty is increased by one. An unskilled worker just isn't as effective as someone who might have lower Attributes but an understanding of what the procedure entails.
Animal Ken
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You have the capability to understand an animal's behavior patterns. This Skill allows you to predict how an animal might react in a given situation, train a domesticated creature, or even try to calm or enrage animals.
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Crafts
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This skill imparts a knowledge of artisan techniques in such fields as woodworking, leatherwork, glassblowing, or gem cutting. With crafts, your character can create lasting pieces of art and functional objects from various materials. The quality of these products depends on the number of successes achieved on the roll.
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Drive
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The drive skill represents your character's ability to operate motor vehicles, though it does not mean that she is familiar with all land vehicles. The storyteller may raise or lower difficulty numbers based on your character's experience with that particular type of vehicle. It also implies that your character has earned a driver's license, although this need not necessarily be the case. At higher levels, you can attempt to avoid someone who's tailing you ( if you know they're there ), and it allows you to attempt some stunts. You can drive a car, and maybe other vehicles as well. This Skill does not automatically entail familiarity with complicated vehicles such as tanks or 18-wheelers, and difficulties may vary depending on your experience with individual automobiles. After all, helming a station wagon doesn't prepare you for controlling a Lotus at 100 miles per hour.
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Etiquette
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You understand the nuances of proper behavior, in both mortal society and Kindred culture. Your specialty is the culture with which you are most familiar. This Skill is used during haggling, seduction, dancing, dinner etiquette and all forms of diplomacy.
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Firearms
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Skill in firearms means that you have a broad knowledge of all guns, from a simple .22 to an Ingram Mac-10 submachine gun. It does not include the ability to operate heavy artillery. Firearms includes the ability to care for and repair guns. This Skill is also used to unjam guns (Wits + Firearms).
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Iskakku
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AKA: The Way of the Staff. The quarter staff (or bo) is the focus of this style of combat. Developed by the Children of Gaia, it has no sharp edges or points, thus relies on the fundamental techniques for all major weapons. With a lack of deadly force, it is the perfect weapon for the Children of Gaia, as it focuses on immobilization and disabling of opponents. Both Garou and Kin are practioners of this art. Unlike Stargazers who do not share their art of Kailindo outside their tribe, the Children of Gaia will teach Iskakku to other shifters. For more details and manuevers, see Advanced Combat.
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Kailindo
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A martial arts style exclusive to Stargazer Garou. It was developed to take advantage of the unique abilities of shapeshifters. Teachers are hard to come by and greatly treasured by their adopted septs. You must possess this Skill to try Kailindo maneuvers; Brawl does not cover Kailindo. Mentor background must be greater than or equal to the level of Kailindo being purchased. For more details and manuevers, see Advanced Combat.
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Martial Arts (hard Style)
Martial Arts (soft Style)
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Many Kuei-jin have matstered one or more forms of Martial Arts, either from their living days or through study with an undead master. The Martial Arts Skill replaces, the Talent Brawl. An aspiring martial artist must choose between a hard style and a soft style. Soft styles include jujutsu, shuai-chiao, tai chi chuan, and aikido. Hard styles include karate, Shaolinkung fu, tae kwon do, and wushu. For game purposes, there is no difference between the various styles, but players are encouraged to choose one for purposes of characterization. House rules:
For each dot in Martial Arts after the first, you may pick a maneuver. See Advanced Combat for the maneuver lists for both styles and additional details.
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Melee
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Melee is the broad term for all sorts of combat that involves hand-to-hand weapons. The definition of a hand-to-hand weapon is a loose one, as it includes knives, swords, broken bottles, chains, saps, and just about anything else that can be used to inflict damage on another.
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Performance
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The performance skill covers a broad range of artistic expression from acting to storytelling. It assumes that your character has the basic knowledge necessary and a certain talent in the field she has chosen. As well as defining your character's expertise and creative talent, this skill also represents her ability to captivate an audience and her stage presence, two relatively nebulous qualities. It assumes that some knowledge about the technical side of the society of your character's chosen field.
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Security
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With the security skill, your character has a proficiency with the tools and techniques for lock-picking, hot-wiring cars, designing and deactivating burglar alarms, and opening safes. It can be used to conduct criminal activities or, on the other side of the coin, to prevent and investigate breeches of security. The more dots your character has in this skill, the more sophisticated the systems with which she is familiar.
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Stealth
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This Skill is the ability to avoid being detected, whether you're hiding or moving at the time. Stealth is often tested against someone else's Perception. This Ability is, for obvious reasons, highly useful in stalking prey.
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Survival
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This skill describes your character's proficiency at surviving in an unfamiliar or dangerous environments. Inherent in it are the abilities to find shelter, scavenge or hunt food, and protect oneself from native predators and threats. It also encompasses tracing and finding safe passage through the area. Stealth rolls in wilderness cannot included more dice from Stealth than the character has dots in survival.
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Technology
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This Skill covers understanding, operating, repairing, and even building or upgrading electronic devices. Purely mechanical devices fall under the Crafts Skill, while computer hardware and software falls under the Computers Knowledge. Characters without this Skill may know how to operate various common devices, but they don’t necessarily know how they work or how to fix them.
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