Dune Skills
ToC
Each character has a rating in each of six skills, each rated from 4 to 8.
Dune: 5x 4 to 8
Achtung!: 10x 1 to 5
Home World: 6x 1 to 5
Dune: 8 to 16
Achtung!: 8 to 17
Home World: 8 to 17
Battle
Examples: Battle, Combat, Fighting, Ranged, Security, Tactics, War
Your character’s skill at arms and their awareness of danger.
Use Battle when your character fights, when they seek to avoid danger, when they plan a battle, and when they try to recall some fact about the methods or history of conflict. Also known as combat or fighting.
Communicate
Examples: Command, Communicate, Deceive & Persuasion
Your character’s ability to skillfully engage in conversations, discussions, and debates.
Use Communicate when attempting to persuade or deceive others, when they need to convey meaning through implication and subtle means, when they need to understand what others are truly trying to say, and when they need to detect attempts by others to use these methods.
Discipline
Examples: Command, Communicate, Deceive & Persuasion
Your character’s ability to influence and control their own mind and body and how they focus and concentrate on complex tasks.
Use Discipline when attempting to resist attempts to subvert body or mind, such as poisons, drugs, or mental influence, as well as to suppress instincts and reflexes when subjected to extreme pain or hardship, or to compel or threaten others through presence and authority alone.
Move
Examples: Athletics, Pilot, Stealth
Your character’s mobility, their ability to overcome physical obstacles.
Use Move to walk, run, jump, climb, swim, or otherwise maneuver in situations where speed, precision, stealth, or care are necessary, or when your character needs to exert physical force in ways other than fighting.
Understand
Examples: Academia, Enigmas, Engineering, Exploration, Medicine, Science, Technology
Your character’s ability to take in and process information, and to recall and apply that knowledge effectively at a later point.
Use Understand when attempting to discern details about the situation nearby, to search an area thoroughly and effectively, to perform research, to recall things your character has learned in the past, to reach conclusions and deductions from the things they know and have learned, and to be able to apply their knowledge and available data in practical ways.
Comments