Journey: Skills Redux

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Forget everything you knew.

We're going to tackle this giant, once and for all. Because it's time to make some actual progress here, people.

So let's do this.

Overview

Skills are the meat of a Journey character. Attributes, race, and culture from the skeleton, but it is by selecting skills that a character truly begins to come into their own as a unique entity.

Through skills, your character can take the first steps to acquiring a role; however, it is not at all necessary that you do so.

Notes

We may modify the complexity system just a touch, to make it a bit more complex! Haha. Irony.

Basically, complexity would come in three varieties.

• Basic. You can gain use this skill and gain XP towards it without having ranks.
• Moderate. You must have at least one rank in this skill to be able to use it and gain XP towards it.
• Complex. You must have at least one rank in this skill to be able to use it and gain XP towards it. In addition, you do not automatically gain a new rank when you have gained sufficient XP, unless you have TP available for the skill equal to your current rank in it, which is lost upon gaining the next rank.

The Skill Table

Below is the comprehensive Journey skills table. It is sortable, so that's a cool thing.

Hell, let's make up some XP costs while we're at it. It might be important to note that the XP costs here are complete and utter fabrications - there is almost no way to know, I think, whether or not these numbers are balanced in a mechanical sense.

Skills

Skill	Root	Complexity	Group(s)	Role (Type)	XP Cost
Melee	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (I)	3 + 2/rank
Swords	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Hammers	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Axes	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Spears	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Flails	Str or Dex	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Foils	Dex	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Fists	Str or Dex	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Picks	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Staves	Str or Dex	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	2 + 2/rank
Diplomacy	Cha	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (II)	2 + 2/rank
Philosophy	Int	Intuitive	Academic and Social	Mediator (II)	2 + 2/rank
Bluff	Wis	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (I)	3 + 2/rank
Charm	Cha	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (I)	3 + 2/rank
Impress	Cha	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (I)	3 + 2/rank
Scare	Str or Cha	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (I)	3 + 2/rank
Persuade	Cha	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (I)	3 + 2/rank
Negotiate	Cha	Intuitive	Social	Mediator (I)	3 + 2/rank
Dodge	Dex	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	3 + 2/rank
Block	Con	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	3 + 2/rank
Parry	Str	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (II)	3 + 2/rank
Defense	Str or Dex or Con	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (I)	3 + 3/rank
Acrobatics	Str	Intuitive	Athletic	---	2 + 2/rank
Arcana	Int	Studied	Academic	Adept (?)	3 + 2/rank
Awareness	Per	Intuitive	General	Explorer (?)	1 + 2/rank
Blacksmithing	Con	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	4 + 3/rank
Bonecarving	Dex	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	4 + 3/rank
Cook	Int or Per or Wis	Studied	Artistic	Artisan (?)	1 + 2/rank
Dance	Dex	Studied	Artistic	---	2 + 2/rank
Disguise	Cha	Studied	Illicit	Explorer (?)	2 + 2/rank
Engineering	Int	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	4 + 3/rank
Escape	Dex	Intuitive	Athletic	Explorer (?)	1 + 2/rank
Firearms	Per	Intuitive	Combat	Warrior (I)	3 + 2/rank
Gambling	Luc	Intuitive	Illicit	---	1 + 3/rank
History	Int	Studied	Academic	---	3 + 2/rank
Instrument	Spi	Studied	Artistic	---	2 + 3/rank
Jewelcrafting	Dex or Int	Studied	Artistic and Technical	Artisan (?)	4 + 3/rank
Leatherworking	Int	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	3 + 3/rank
Litany	Wis	Studied	Lore	Adept (?)	2 + 2/rank
Medical	Int	Studied	Technical	---	2 + 4/rank
Navigation	Int	Studied	Wilderness	Explorer (?)	3 + 2/rank
Open Lock	Dex or Int	Studied	Illicit and Technical	Explorer (?)	2 + 3/rank
Pilot	Dex or Int	Studied	Technical	Explorer (?)	2 + 2/rank
Religion	Int or Spi	Studied	Academic	Adept (?)	3 + 2/rank
Repair	Int	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	4 + 2/rank
Scavenge	Int or Per	Intuitive	Wilderness	---	1 + 3/rank
Sing	Cha	Studied	Artistic	---	2 + 2/rank
Spellcraft	Int	Studied	Lore	Adept (?)	2 + 2/rank
Stealth	Dex	Intuitive	Illicit	Explorer (?)	2 + 3/rank
Stonemasonry	Str	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	4 + 3/rank
Systems	Int	Studied	Technical	Explorer (?)	2 + 4/rank
Tailoring	Dex	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	3 + 2/rank
Track	Per	Studied	Wilderness	Explorer (?)	2 + 3/rank
Woodcarving	Con	Studied	Technical	Artisan (?)	3 + 3/rank
Architecture	Int	Studied	Academic and Technical	Artisan (?)	3 + 2/rank
Gather Info	Per or Cha	Intuitive	Social	Explorer (?)	1 + 3/rank
Use Rope	Dex or Int	Intuitive	Technical	---	1 + 2/rank
Linguistics	Int	Studied	Academic	---	2 + 2/rank
Thievery	Dex	Intuitive	Illicit	---	2 + 2/rank
Streetwise	Wis or Cha	Intuitive	Illicit and Social	Explorer (?)	2 + 2/rank
Farming	Con or Int	Intuitive	Technical	---	2 + 2/rank

 

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