Skills A-Z (Skill Descriptions)

[Head Moderator]

Every one of your characters are different and that's awesome. Everyone has different abilities that they can do. These things can be earned over time, but you are all allowed to choose FIVE (5) skills from the list below when you join, and THREE (3) free "FLAVOR" skills. These include any racial abilities your char might have such as the ability to levitate (drow) or low-light vision (elf) that aren't included in your racial package. Flavor skills are marked clearly as FLAVOR.

At each gemstone level you can add 3 more skills, and 1 bonus FLAVOR skill. Also, through our questing you'll be given the opportunity to earn various things (such as on our quest where your chars got Fearless).

Note: Earning reputation allows you to pick up even more FLAVORS.

So to start at Crystal, Pick Five Skills + Three Bonus Flavor Skills.

What are skills?
Simply, things that are special about your character, things they can do that makes them unique creatures. These are skills and abilities that would come in useful during quests or that would make a difference in everyday roleplay. They are the building blocks of a character.

Many skills have costs or prerequisites, make sure you can fulfill them! All prerequisites listed are required unless there are multiple professions. 

Only a few skills allow you to take it multiple times, such as Diehard, Artisan Crafting, Craft Magic Item, Polyglot. It will say in the skill description if you can take it multiple times. If it does not say you are able to, then you cannot!

NOTE: Skills do not stack. You may use ONE, and ONLY ONE skill per turn in combat unless it says otherwise. Combat skills are clearly marked. One skill use at a time, unless it is marked as INNATE or CONSTANT. If you are evading or reflecting, you may continue to do so for as many skills of that type that you have as long as the person keeps sending the attack back your way.

***Switching out Skills***
If you decide you do not like the skill you've chosen, you are allowed one free "Skill Switch", but you must let the Treasury & tesarikone know. If you want to switch out skills after that you must pay a fee, and this fee goes up the more you switch skills out. See "Skill Switch", in the Emporium, or speak to the Treasury Mod.

***Animal Companion / Familiar Skills***
There are some skills marked "CC" that are allowed to be taken by your Animal Companion or Familiar (there are skills you must take to own one). The prerequisites for your companion taking those skills is listed after the CC such as (CC - Acrobatics Skill). There are also several skills that are ONLY for companions, and they are marked very clearly.

***Lose Turn Skills***
To keep it fair with the other classes, a lose turn skill marked "LOSE TURN" grows with the character unless it is specifically marked as just losing ONE TURN. Just as a mage can cast more powerful spells, so too does the warrior hit harder in time. Lose turns extend out based on rank.

If your opponent is a lower gemstone rank than you, then they automatically lose that first turn (whether a one-turn stun or multi-stun) without being offered a save. If your opponent is equal or higher gemstone rank than you, then they get a save for that first round. All subsequent rounds, regardless of rank, always gets a save.

If your skill does not have anything listed for the save, then it is QCK vs QCK.

Crystal and Topaz: 1 round
Amber and Sapphire: 2 rounds
Emerald and Ruby: 3 rounds
Obsidian and Diamond: 4 rounds.

If you are stunned by a lose turn of any kind, you lose all your Quickness Bonus and your Defense DC reverts to DC10 while stunned. Stuns are clearly marked in the description of the Lose Turn, as not all lose turns STUN.

***Multi Attack Skills***
If you have a skill that allows you to make multiple full attacks on your enemies, you may only direct at the most TWO of those full attacks to the same enemy.

**Counter Attack Skills***
Unless the skill specifically states something different, all counter attack skills are treated like a normal attack. You make strike, you roll damage. Remember, though, that whatever counter attack skill you used (such as "Counter Attack" or "Acrobatic Backstab" was your skill usage for that turn in combat. You cannot activate other skills or use a special skill in that counterattack, unless your skills are innate or constant.

***Versatility***
Versatility is a skill for HUMANS that allows you to take some skills that are otherwise reserved for certain classes and professions. Skills cannot be marked "Primary", and any other requirements must be met such as other skills needed, or rank requirements. All skills allowed to be taken with Versatility are marked (V) and also state any special prerequisites you need to take that skill, such as needing Magical Affinity, or Healing Affinity.

***Teamwork***
Teamwork skills are marked very clearly, and they only work if another character has the same teamwork skill that you have. It is good to coordinate teamwork skills with those you regularly adventure with!

***Replacement Skills***
There are some skills on our skill list that at higher ranks replace and improve a skill that you might already have on your dossier. These replacement skills are stated clearly within their description as to which skills they replace. When you reach the appropriate rank and meet all other prerequisites, you have to put it on your dossier update with the rest of the skills for your new gemstone level. After approval has been given, then you can simply trade out the old skill for the new one on your dossier.

***Innate Skills***
These skills are always active, they are part of who you are, and how you fight.

Innate Skills
- Amphibious
- Arcane Warrior
- Aura of Strength
- Big Enough
- Blindfight
- Born to Water
- Brutish Durability
- Charismatic Fighter
- Dance Magic
- Dexterous Fighter
- Diehard
- Divine Health
- Dragon Breath
- Drunken Fighter
- Dual Wield
- Easy Reload
- Electrical Affinity
- Elemental Immunity
- Epic Power
- Far Reaching Shot
- Fearless
- Focused Shot
- Forsaken Undead
- Greater Dual Wield
- Immunity to Sleep
- Lunar Born
- Magical Resistance
- Mindblade
- Mind over Body
- Mounted Archery
- Muscle Reactions
- Mounted Combat
- Natural Spell
- Not One or the Other
- Poison/Venom Immunity
- Power Attack
- Presence of Mind
- Sealed with a Kiss
- Small and Fast
- Spellborn Body
- Sword and Pistol
- Tactician's Sense
- Timeless Body
- Tomb-Taint
- Tough as Bone
- Two Shield Fighting
- Two Wanded
- Undead Resistance
- Underwater Breather
- Vow of Peace
- Will of the Divine

***Constant Skills***
Constant skills are skills that are active all the time due to who you are, what profession you've taken, or your own personal choices and qualities. Constant skills do not have to be activated in combat, nor do they ever take up a round of combat - they are just always "on". You still have to claim them when they are used so that your proctor or DM knows how you are doing what you're doing.

Constant Skills
- Advanced Plating
- Agile Athlete
- Allegro
- Arcane Archer
- Armor Mastery
- As Water
- Blindsense
- Born by the Blade
- Bruised Armor
- Calm Mind
- Charming Beauty
- Claw Strike
- Close Quarters Fighting
- Colossus Hunter
- Combat Climbing
- Combat Marksman
- Concealed Healing [But can turn off/on]
- Concealed Spellcasting [But can turn off/on]
- Curseproof
- Darksight
- Darkwood Body
- Death from Above
- Diagnose
- Dirty Fighter
- Double Attack
- Double Tech
- Double Invocation
- Dual Wield Expert
- Dual Wield Focus
- Eldritch Focus
- Eldritch Master
- Elemental Resistance
- Elusive Dance
- Exceptional Breeding
- Executioner's Shot
- Faithful Feedback
- Favored Enemy
- Forgo Components
- Greater Stigmata
- Gris Gris
- Gun Mage
- Halfling Slinger
- Hidden Blade Master
- Immunity to Charm
- Immunity from Disease
- Inertial Armor
- Ioun Master
- Lasting Inspiration
- Lightning Initiative
- Lingering Spell
- Low-light Vision
- Mage's Intuition
- Master at Arms
- Master at Arms, Improved
- Master of Poisons
- Mindblade Enhancement
- Mountain Hoof
- Mounted Mastery
- Multiple Marks
- Native Terrain
- Nature's Guard
- One-Handed Expert
- One-Handed Focus
- One Weapon Boon
- One With Wood
- Patron Spells
- Pistol Whip
- Point Blank Master
- Point Blank Shot
- Point Blank Spells
- Protection of the Devout
- Racial Weakness Resistance
- Ranged Sniper
- Selective Spell
- Shield Weapon
- Ship's Mage
- Spell Combatant
- Spirit Armor
- Spirit Strike
- Spiritual Sentinel
- Steel Soul
- Stoneskin
- Sun-Hardened Skin
- Sword and Board
- Teleport Tactician
- Theurgic Submersion
- Tricky Arcanist
- Two-Handed Expert
- Two-Handed Weapon
- Unarmed Focus
- Unarmed Master
- Vow of Nonviolence
- Wand Mastery
- Weapon Alteration
- Weapon Juggle
- Will of the Forsaken
- Witch-Hunt

***Activated Skills***
If your combat or defense skill does not say "This is an innate skill" or "This is a constant skill", then it is probably an acquired skill and you must actively start using the benefits of that skill. If your acquired skill is one that lasts more than one round, then you only need to use up one turn to "activate" it, then you may use it in following rounds without it taking up your one skill per turn.

SOME Examples of Activated Skills - NOT ALL LISTED
This list is here to give you a GOOD idea of how to tell if a skill needs activated.
- Arcane Cantata
- Back to Back [Teamwork]
- Battle Blessing
- Battle Hardened
- Battle Hymn
- Bestial Fury
- Bind the Beast
- Bitter Arms
- Black Fester
- Blistering Bands
- Blood and Honor
- Brutal Grappler
- Call to the Blood Dancer
- Changeling Beasthide
- Coat of Arms
- Concerted Attack [Teamwork]
- Confound the Caster
- Coordinated Attack [Teamwork]
- Crescendo of Blood
- Defender of Nature
- Desecration zone
- Devil's Foe
- Durability
- Empowered Innate Spell
- Engaging Banter
- Grudge Fighter
- Hateful Attack
- Hateful Rager
- Haunting Melody
- Hide in Plain Sight
- Hidden Sniper
- Holy Aura
- Holy / Unholy Resistance
- Holy Strike
- Holy Valor
- Improved Grapple
- Levitation
- Lightbringer
- Limelight
- Merciful Spell
- Merciful Attack
- Moral Radiance
- Nature's Guard
- Nightcaller
- Noble Bearing
- One With Spirit
- Outrageous Attire
- Paladin's Chant
- Pillar of Hope
- Polearm Acrobat
- Shocking Grasp
- Song of the Depths
- Soul Mate [Teamwork]
- Sound of Music
- Spirit-Scarred
- Staccato
- Stigmata
- Subsonic
- Thanatopic Spell
- True Inspiration
- Undead Manipulator
- Unholy Strike
- Unholy Valor
- Whatever's Handy

[Head Moderator]

Acrobatic : You have excellent coordination, and can take a +5 to all Acrobatics Checks.
(CC)
(R)

Acrobatic Backstab : Upon being attacked and taking no damage, you dart past your opponent, ending up perfectly positioned for a counterattack at that moment, allowing you to attack that same attacker instantly without taking up a turn. Roll strike as normal, and then proceed. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Acrobatic
COMBAT
(CC)

Advanced Crafting - This skill gives a crafter a one-time +20 bonus to crafting points, please inform the Treasury Mod when you take this skill so that it can be added. Additionally, it grants you a bonus of 5 crafting points per week that can be used for any type of crafting skill. At Sapphire, your bonus goes to 10 crafting points per week, and at Ruby you gain 20 extra crafting points per week. At Obsidian you gain 25 extra crafting points a week, and at Diamond 30 extra crafting points a week.
Prerequisite: Topaz Rank and one of the basic crafting skills.

Advanced Plating : You've been augmented with interlocking plates forged into your existing armor. Some of these plates may look decorative, but they provide well needed protection. This boosts your natural armor by +5, and allows you to purchase one type of material to integrate into your armor as a warforged. You must still pay full price for the material. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Warforged ONLY
DEFENSE
(R)

Advanced Thievery: A thief adept is trained at thievery, and is able to now use the Thievery skill during combat as often as they successfully attack a target with an unarmed or short weapon attack. Using this skill does not allow you the doubled, tripled or quadrupled bonus from your one use of Thievery Skill - you take simply the amount you roll (such as rolling 40 40 = 80 gold) for all thievery acts outside of the one given to you by that skill.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary), Sapphire Rank, Thievery Skill

Advantageous Avoidance: You have a knack for ducking, darting and rolling out of the way at just the right moment, allowing you to evade half damage of an attack, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Amber Rank
DEFENSE - Evade
(CC)

Adverse Healing: So in depth is their knowledge of the healing paths of the body, both mundane and magical, that it is no surprise what a healer can do when they reverse their skill. A healer with this skill may use their own healing points (not self-healing) to harm target instead of heal, no strike needed, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Healer (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Aerial Acrobatics: Someone with this skill can climb a rope as fast as they can normally walk. They only need one hand free to climb a rope, and may perform actions while hanging from a rope which usually requires having two free hands. Finally, they may descend a rope with doubled speed of up to 60 ft without penalty or damage.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept, Acrobatic Skill
(V - Acrobatic Skill)
FLAVOR

Agile Athlete: You rely on your agility to perform athletic feats, rather than brute strength. This allows you to use Quickness for Athletics Checks that normally require Strength. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Acrobatic, QCK 10
(CC - Acrobatic, QCK 10)

Agile Tongue: You have a prehensile tongue with a range of 10 feet. You can pick up items weighing no more than 5 pounds, and this allows you to disarm a target once per combat. Disarming this way takes a successful melee strike to knock a weapon out of your opponent's hand instead of doing damage. It takes up a turn to pick it up if they want to continue using it. You can, instead of disarming a weapon, choose to steal one item that is visible on the target instead of removing a weapon such as a visible amulet, a wand, a bracelet, etc.
Prerequisite: Grippli Race Only
(R)

A Hero Never Falls: The devout's sheer strength of will drives them on when death would claim lesser men. Once per day when a paladin or vindicator would be reduced to 0 or less hp or otherwise killed (such as by a death effect), they instead are reduced to 1 hp.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Aid Melee Attack: Once per combat, if a ranger's ranged attack hits a target and does damage, this skill can then be used. The next ally or allies who make a melee attack against the same target creature before the start of the ranger’s next turn gains a +2 to Strike.
Prerequisite: Ranger, Sapphire rank
COMBAT
(V - Sapphire Rank)
(CC)

Alchemy : You are skilled in alchemy and potion making. You must have this skill in order to create potions for use and/or for sale. See our Crafting information for in-depth instructions.

Alert : You gain a +5 to Spot and Listen Checks.
(CC)
(R)

Alibi : The good criminal always knows that he needs an alibi. A person or group of people that can verify that he was someplace while in actuality he was in another doing whatever criminal activities he was involved in. Once a week you can use this ability and not be charged with criminal activity where your identity has been discovered.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept, Rogue, Bard, Noble, Charmer, Swashbuckler, Bloodhound Classes AND Reputation 10
(V - Reputation 10)
FLAVOR

Allegro : A bard's Riff skill can now be used up to 3 times per combat. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Riff Skill AND Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Alluring Tongue : People believe what you say more times than not, and listen to your advice and diplomatic attempts more readily giving you a +5 to Diplomacy. You know how to use your natural charms to turn decisions (heads, and hearts) in your favor.
FLAVOR
(R)

All You Can Think About : Activating this skill takes no more than a quick glance across a crowded room, after which the target must make a Willpower save (DC of 10 + Charmer's Charisma Bonus) or be unable to think of anything except the seducer. The image of the seducer will haunt their every waking moment and visit them in their dreams for one day per point they failed their save. Should the seducer attempt to seduce them with any of their Charmer skills, enrapture or otherwise mislead them within this period, they receive a -5 penalty to the saving roll if one is allotted.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Alter Appearance: You are able to alter your appearance to appear fully elven, or any humanoid form, indefinitely.
Prerequisites: Fey'ri Racial
(R)

Always Welcome : A noble can attempt to gain free room and board anywhere they go, whether innes, or even people's homes (NPC). Even the poorest peasant will attempt to make the noble at home, offering even their last chunk of bread and bottle of mead - whether from fame, or fear of the noble. This skill also gives you a boost of 5 Reputation Points, whether fame or infamy.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary) only AND Sapphire Rank.
FLAVOR

Amphibious: Aventi can breathe water or air, equally well, without any limitations. They can always choose to 'take 10' on swim checks, even if they are endangered or distracted, and take no penalties for fighting underwater. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Aventi Racial
(R)

Amplified by Hate : A hateful rager can add +5 to any save DC against their favored enemy, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Half-Orc, Hateful Rager
COMBAT
(R)

Angelic Flesh : While this skill is being used you take a -2 to Disguise and Stealth checks. You are able to choose one of four types of metallic skin once per adventure, and your skin shines like that particular burnished metal.
Brazen: +5 DEF against fire.
Golden: +2 to Saves against blindness, dazzle or prismatic spells.
Silver: +2 to Saves against poison, paralysis and petrification. Your unarmed attacks count as silver.
Steel: +2 DEF. Your unarmed attacks count as cold iron.
Prerequisites: Aasimar or Celestial Race, Sapphire Rank
DEFENSE

Animal Affinity : You are skilled at working with animals and mounts. This gives you a +5 to Ride checks, and will also allow you the ability to befriend an animal. Tame animals DC10, wild animals DC15, Enraged Animals, DC20, you may add your Charisma to your d20 roll.
(R)

Animal Companion : The animal companion skill allows you to have an animal that you can use in combat. If you are choosing something unique or magical, please get the creature approved by tesarikone. Your animal companion is treated as an NPC, and grows as you grow. You may also teach your animal companion commands so they are more useful to you, at the rate of their INT + 1. Please see our charter on Animal Companions for a list of all commands you are able to teach them.
At Topaz Rank, you gain your animal companion as a young animal. You are just beginning to train them, and they aren't able to do much more than follow you around, and be cute (non-combat).
At Amber Rank, your animal companion is a juvenile and knows enough to begin assisting you in combat. Your companion is Topaz Adept rank and should be built like an NPC with their own dossier. All armor, and items must be purchased by the owner. Your companion has the number of skills (only those marked (CC) can be chosen), and traits that someone of normal Topaz Adept rank would have. You do not gain any free racial skills. Your dossier for your companion must be approved by tesarikone before you may use your companion in combat.
At Sapphire Rank, your companion is now Amber Adept rank. They are growing, and learning, and can truly assist you in combat and in other situations. All changes must be sent to the Class Mod for approval.
At Emerald Rank, your companion is now Sapphire Adept rank. All changes must be sent to the Class Mod for approval.
At Ruby Rank, your companion is now Emerald Adept rank. All changes must be sent to the Class Mod for approval.
At Obsidian Rank, your companion is now Ruby Shield. All changes sent to the Class Mod.
At Diamond Rank, your companion is now Obsidian Prime rank. All changes sent to the Class Mod.
Prerequisites: Topaz Rank

Animal Friend : Gives the ability to charm any one mundane animal, no matter how enraged the animal may be, without need for any roll making the animal the caster's friend for one mun hour.
Prerequisite: Druid Only
FLAVOR

Animal Magnetism : You exude an undeniable, yet feral personality that others find both intoxicating and threatening. You gain a +3 bonus to Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidation. You are able to choose one type of monster that you can use any of your charmer skills against, a second at Sapphire, a third at Emerald, a fourth at Obsidian, and a fifth at Diamond. You may take this skill multiple times if desired.
Prerequisites: Charmer (Primary) Only, Amber Rank
FLAVOR

Animal Skin : By wearing the skin of any animal, you are able to take that animal's form. The animal can be anywhere from tiny to large size.
Prerequisite: Mage
(V - Magical Affinity)
FLAVOR

Animal Spirit Guide : A shaman has an unusual connection to a certain animal, usually from birth. It is this particular animal that, according to beliefs, guides him on his path on the Journey. The animal's spirit presses him on to respect nature, and keep its health intact. Shamans have a great understanding when it comes to the type of animal in question. They gain +4 on Handle Animal checks in regards to animals of their spirit guide type. Although they can not speak with the animals, they share a deep understanding. Creatures of his animal spirit guide's species are literally able to guide him, and they can 'converse' wordlessly, allowing the creature to give advice.
Prerequisite: Shaman
(V)
FLAVOR

Animal Training : This skill allows you to train an animal to obey simple essential commands such as "scout ahead", "smell that", "go home", "ambush", "flush out", "pin", "stalk", "defend", "attack". Non-essential commands such as "down", "stop", "heel", "fetch", "roll over", "stay", etc, have no limits to how many you may teach. Essential commands are those that will make or break a roleplay scene. You may teach your animal 2 essential commands per gemstone rank. This can be used for a mount, a pet, or even your animal companion if you have the Animal Companion skill. You must have the correct skill in order to teach commands to attack others.
Prerequisite: Animal Affinity
FLAVOR

Animate Dead : The Black Mage is able to animate a dead foe, causing it to fight alongside of the mage's allies. It retains it's original stats and weapons, but gains the undead traits of immunity against cold, disease, poison, sleep and mind effects. A Black Mage may animate as many undead as half their Intelligence score, but they must be animated one at a time, and this takes up that round of combat. Your undead will follow your simple commands. If you die or are knocked out, any undead you've animated return to a non-animated state.
Prerequisite: Black Mage Only
COMBAT

Animate Horde : This allows a Black Mage to animate as many dead foes as half their Intelligence score, at one time, once per adventure. Undead abide by the same rules as in the skill: Animate Dead.
Prerequisites: Animate Dead, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Animism: A mystic can listen and speak directly to the spirit in all things. At Topaz, they can speak with any living creature that has a language they understand. At Amber, they can speak with any living creature as if they both speak the same language. At Sapphire, they can speak with plants. At Emerald, they can speak with magic items and constructs. At Ruby, they can speak with earth and stone. At Obsidian they can speak with the air itself.
Prerequisite: Mystic
(V)
FLAVOR

Answering Spirits : A shaman may ask questions of the spirit world that will actually be answered. The shaman may ask a number of questions per day equal to their Intelligence modifier (work with the DM for this).
Prerequisite: Shaman or Mystic, Topaz Rank
(V - Topaz Rank)

Anticipate Evade: Your agility allows you to anticipate an enemy's evade, so that you can easily circumvent their actions with your swift movements. This negates the use of any type of evade skill, spell, CM, loot, etc and causes your target to take half the damage intended for them, despite their best effort to evade.
Prerequisites: QCK 8, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Anything You Want : A charmer may attempt to interrupt an incoming attack by rolling a diplomacy check against the attacker's Strike roll. If their diplomacy roll is higher than the strike, the Charmer stays their hand and no one takes damage. If the Charmer fails, then the target may make an immediate attack upon the Charmer, and the original target takes the damage as intended. Once per combat
Prerequisites: Charmer (Primary)
DEFENSE - Evade

Apotheosis: [Storyline] You are marked by fate in some way, and fate bends to your will. Once per day, you may cause a dice roll to be re-rolled by a creature within 100 feet of your character. You may choose which dice roll you prefer.
Storyling Note: You must have had direct contact with a deity or godlike being, or have been risen from the dead at the personal behest of a deity or godlike being, so please get tesarikone's approval before taking this.
Prerequisite: Emerald Rank, Approval from tesarikone (Proof)

Apply Pressure: Taking a Mark in alive takes non-lethal means to control the target. Through your knowledge of "Pressure Points" you pain and weaken your Mark taking an amount of dice sides per rank of attacker from the victim see chart below. One time per combat, lasts for duration of combat.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound (Primary)
COMBAT

Crystal and Topaz: -2
Amber: -4
Sapphire: -6
Emerald: -8
Ruby: -10
Obsidian: -12
Diamond: -14

Approximate Understanding: You lack formal training or knowledge about a subject but you understand it enough to get by. You cannot have any other Knowledge skills, and you cannot use any loot or items that boost knowledge with this skill. This allows you to roll a Knowledge check on any one topic, with a +10 bonus. You may use this skill once per adventure.
Prerequisites: You cannot have ANY knowledge skill such as Knowledge, Voracious Reader, etc.
FLAVOR

Arcane Archer: You have learned to cast spells and wield your bow at the same time. You may wield any type of bow, while imbuing your arrows to attack with magic during combat against one target. This is a constant effect. Additionally, once per combat you may not only add your normal bonus to your ranged damage against the target, but your Intelligence bonus to your magic attack as well to the same target.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Arcane Builder : You have an exceptional understanding of the theory behind creating magical items. Select one type of magic-based crafting (poisonmaking, wandcraft, craft magical weapons, inkantation etc) for which you already have the skill, and due to your proficiency you are able to use half as many crafting points as needed for one item per day (or 7 items per week). So, if you want to enchant something that costs 6CP, you could state "Arcane Builder" and that item would only cost 3CP. The lowest cost anything will ever be is 1CP.
Prerequisites: Mage, Amber Rank
(V - Magical Affinity, Amber Rank)

Arcane Cantata: Your ability to inspire allies has an added boon for spellcasters. All regged spells cast while the bard is performing gains a +2 to their Spell Save DC. All allies also gain a +2 to any saves against spells the enemies cast upon them.
Prerequisite: Bard (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Arcane Eye: A spellcaster's senses have developed so keenly that he is now able to use point blank spell benefits at a distance. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisites: Point Blank Spells
COMBAT

Arcane Image : A spellcaster can become pure magical energy, allowing them to take no damage from any one physical attack during combat
Prerequisites: Arcane Class
DEFENSE - Evade
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
(CC - Magical Profession)

Arcane Lucubration: This skill allows a spellcaster to recall a spell they have already cast in combat, and cast it once more in the same combat without it taking up one of their allowed spells. This can be used once per adventure.
Prerequisites: INT 10, Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Arcane Pedagogue : A mage with this skill is able to write twice as many spells each rank than before. This is retroactive.
Prerequisite: Mage (Primary), Black Mage (Primary) or Spellborn (Primary)

Arcane Warrior : This allows you to wield a light/one-handed weapon or one-handed tech in one hand, and a one-handed magic invocation in the other. This follows the same rules as dual wield, it allows you to gain the damage for both in one round. You may choose to add your normal melee trait damage, OR your magic trait damage (INT), but not both every round. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Spell Combatant, Arcane Class, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Arm's Length: The swashbuckler is good at holding people at sword-point. Once per combat, an enemy that enters an area sword's length from her for any reason provokes a reaction from the swashbuckler. The swashbuckler rolls a strike against the enemy, if she makes their Defense DC, the target is forced back nulling any action or attack they might have made that round against her. This lasts for as many rounds as the Swashbuckler holds the target at point, or until the target is attacked. While held in place, their Defense DC is lowered by 2 points as they are stable and unmoving at the end of a blade.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Armorbane Shot : Your foe will regret their bodily limits as your bullets leave dents, pocks and bruises across their armor or body. This can be used once per combat, and decreases a target's Defense DC by 2 for the remainder of combat.
Prerequisite: Use a gunpowder weapon.
COMBAT

Armor's Gap : You can bypass a target’s mundane armor with a weapon by searching for gaps and flaws. You must spend a full round of doing nothing but analyzing your opponents armor, and then you are able upon your next attack to bypass all mundane armor or natural armor with a piercing or slashing weapon. Each subsequent attack against the exact same opponent allows you an opportunity to roll a Spot to see if you can still find the gaps and flaws. Each round is harder to find, as that enemy is now aware of his flaws and seeks to protect himself. Spot DC15, and increases by +2 each round after that you attempt to bypass the defenses. You must still make your Strike against your opponent to actually hit him.
Prerequisite: Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Armor Mastery : At Topaz rank, you may ignore the initiative penalty for Medium Armor, at Sapphire rank they may ignore the penalty for Heavy Armor. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Wear Medium or Heavy Armor, Topaz Rank

Armor Piercing Shot : You’ve studied the armor of man long enough to have a remarkable understanding of its construction – and weaknesses – and use this knowledge to your advantage. Once per combat you may study your opponents armor looking for weaknesses, and gain a 2d3 to your shot, your opponent loses any defense bonuses from armor that round. This cannot be used the first round of combat, as you must see them in action before using this skill.
Prerequisites: Combat Marksman Skills, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Artisan Crafting : You may take this skill if you are a craftsman of some type, allowing you to sell your non-magical items to others for gold. You may also choose "Unarmed Improvement" as one of your types, which allows you to teach special abilities to those who own unarmed techs. You are given 1 type of artisan crafting per gemstone rank.
Some types to choose from:
    Armorsmithing
    Bookbinding
    Bowyer/Fletcher
    Blacksmithing
    Carpentry
    Cartography
    Clockwork
    Cobbling
    Dragoncrafting
    Gemcutting
    Goldsmith
    Gunsmithing
    Instrument Maker
    Jeweler
    Leatherworker
    Masonry
    Seamstress/Tailor
    Ship Builder
    Ship Armaments
    Silversmith
    Trapsmith
    Unarmed Improvements
    Weaponsmithing
    Woodworking

Artisan Flourish : As you move about the field of battle as a dancer moves across the floor, any opponent you stand against, finds it hard to judge where you will be. As they swing at you, you are able to roll beneath their strike and deliver one of your own. Once per combat, you may turn the damage meant for you back upon your attacker.
Prerequisite: Swashbuckler (Primary) & Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Aspect of Nature: At the start of each day, a wilden chooses to embody one aspect of nature from the following three types: The Ancient, The Destroyer, or The Hunter. This triggers a change in the form of the wilden, up to the player. Once you have chosen an aspect that day, you CANNOT change it for 24 hours.
Prerequisites: Wilden Racial
(R)

The Ancient: After an attack, you vanish and appear 30 feet away, causing your target to be unable to counterattack you in any way, once per combat.
The Destroyer: Upon a successful attack, once per combat, you not only do damage to your opponent but you daze them for one round only.
The Hunter: If a target attempts to run, you get an attack against that target regardless if it is your turn on the scoreboard, once per combat.

Aspect of Seasons: The druid takes the form of a natural power of a season. Once you have chosen your aspect for that combat, you may not switch to another aspect. This can be used once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Druid (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Summer Form: You become the personification of the burning summer. Your skin becomes orange and wreathed in hot flames and your hair becomes living flames. This gives you immunity to fire, and allows you to use fire magic such as casting fireballs. All fire spells add a +5 DMG, and all registered fire spells have a +2 to their Spell Difficulty. You cannot use any other element than fire or heat while in this aspect, and cold deals double damage to you while in this aspect. You also risk igniting everything you touch into flames.

Winter Form: You become the personification of winter, cold and ice. Your skin becomes blue and transparent, like ice. You gain immunity to cold, and allows you to use cold magic such as a cone of cold. All cold spells add +5 DMG, and all registered cold/ice spells have a +2 to their Spell Difficulty. You cannot use any other element than cold/ice or water during this aspect. Fire deals double damage to you in this aspect. You move at only half your normal land speed.

Autumn Form: You take on an aura of death that can be channeled to heal undead around you (using your heal points). You are immune to negative energy, and this allows you to add a +5 DMG to all spells dealing with negative energy (necromancy). This also adds a +2 to Spell Difficulty to all negative energy spells in your registered spell list. You cannot cast any healing spells or use healing skills in this form except to heal undead or those that heal from negative energy. While in this form, you only have half your normal hit points.

Spring Form: You become the personification of a green, bountiful spring. Your skin takes on a hint of green, and your hair is weaved with vines and flowers. This form boosts your healing energy, giving you a +5 to all heals done in this form. This adds a +2 to any saves you make to break curses or heal ailments. Negative energy does double damage to you in this aspect. Everything you touch becomes fertile, including the land you walk upon, or the person you heal by touching.

As Water: Having been trained in both the mental and physical arts, the monk knows to keep both their mind and body loose and flowing like water. Always able to shift, to adapt, to flow around combat. This relaxed state of being grants them a +3 mundane defense throughout combat. At Emerald, the defense improves to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Monk
DEFENSE
(V)

At Home Below: When in darkness, you gain a +2 to Spot and Search Checks.
Prerequisite: Drow or with permission from tesarikone (Darksight needed).
(CC - Darksight)
(R)

Athletic: You are agile and flexible and gain a +5 to all Athletics Checks.
(CC)
(R)

Augury: Once per adventure, you may use any method you desire to glean portents or signs to assist your group in making any one decision. Please work with the DM on the use of this skill.
Prerequisites: Monk
(V)
FLAVOR

Augmented Alchemy: An alchemist is now able to make 3-Use Potions for use or sell. A 3-Use potion is just as it says, you get three uses out of one potion! You may also sell 3-Use Potions for more money.
Prerequisites: Alchemy Skill AND Sapphire Rank

Augment Summoning: Creatures summoned through registered spells earn a +2 to strength or quickness.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, Mage, Spellborn, Mystic, Shaman
(V - Magical or Psionic Affinity)

Augment Turning: This gives the Priest a +5 bonus to Divine Turning, instead of the +3.
Prerequisite: Priest

Aura of Conviction: Once per adventure, if you roll a Critical Fail of "1", you may reroll your dice immediately.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Aura of Faith: While this skill is active, the Paladin grants the ability to re-roll one Willpower save each combat to any one ally within a 30ft radius of them.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary), Ruby Rank

Aura of Lust You are a minx of a man or woman and can cause the opposite sex (or same sex if they are attracted to you) to melt with desire. There is just something about the person that makes his target desire him/her above all else. This is not so powerful as to break marriage or elvish bonds, if it is something the character would never consider then they can resist but will still feel attracted to the seducer. You can use this to get information you need, or even get someone to do tasks for you. [DM's discretion how used during adventures/storylines, opposed roll suggested.]
Prerequisite: Charmer
(V)
FLAVOR

Aura of Resolve: While this skill is active, the Paladin grants the ability to re-roll one Endurance save each combat to any ally within a 30ft radius of them.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary), Ruby Rank

Aura of Strength : You are now a little more powerful than other races and creatures, which grants you an extra die for your combat dice taking you from 2d to 3d. To accomplish this, you must turn in a story to [e-mail] for approval. Should you wish to earn xp for the story done, you may turn it in as a PSL. Alternatively, you can have someone run a quest or mission for you to complete the task you have in mind. This is an innate skill. Note: This skill costs 100 xp which means you will lose that xp upon the approval of your AoS by the storyline leader.
Prerequisites & Costs: Emerald Rank, Reputation 20, Story of at least 300-500 words, 100 XP

Avatar: A Vindicator of this level has reached such a connection with their deity, that they can draw deeply from their connection. Offering their body up to become an Avatar for their god, their forms take on characteristics of their deity (glowing flesh, eye color, commanding voice, etc., etc.). All damage done is doubled for one attack per combat. The end total of combat dice, trait, weapon, etc are doubled.
Prerequisites: Vindicator (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Avoid Blow : This allows the Thief to see an attack coming and get out of the way, adding 1d5 to his Defense DC against a single attack. Can be used once per combat, but will do one point of strain damage whether it hits or not. Example: Ashton's about to get hit, enemy rolls a 17, which is above his Defense DC. He uses Avoid blow. If he rolls a 1, it increases his defense to 16, which is still not high enough, and he takes whatever the attack's damage is +1 point of strain damage. If he rolls a 3, it bumps him up to 18, and he avoids the attack entirely, only taking the 1 point of strain.
Prerequsite: Thief Adept (Primary) or Swordmaster (Primary) only
DEFENSE

Awaken Animal: Most of your animal companions or familiars are not awakened, they are humble animals serving to the best of their ability through commands you give them. But sometimes, an animal becomes awakened. It gains a personality and becomes more of a 'person' than 'animal'. They can talk, think, and can decide to take actions on its own without waiting for their owner to command them. They still must abide by all skills and commands they know, but it does open up the possibility for taking different types of skills than it could take before.
(CC - Animal Emerald Rank, Animal INT 4, Story of 300-500 words of how it was awakened)

Awesome Blow: Your animal companion or familiar is able to make an attack against a target, and if it hits, pushes them 10 feet and makes them fall prone. This causes the target to lose a turn of combat. This can be used once per combat.
(CC - Bull Rush Strike, Combatant Profession)
COMBAT

Back to Back: [Teamwork]
Your ally’s eyes are your own, and yours are his. While you are attacking the same target with a melee attack as another teammate with this skill, you both gain a +2 to your DDC while you both continue to attack the same target.
COMBAT

Back to Your Feet : This enables you to shrug off disabling conditions as long as you are equal or higher gemstone rank than the attacker. You are able to cause any disabling condition that would effect more than one round of combat to only affect you for one round of combat. If the attack or skill only causes you to be stunned or disabled for one round, you slough that off with ease and the effect does not take place. This can be used only once per day.
Prerequisites: Combat-Oriented Profession, Emerald Rank
(All Combat Class Professions, Monk, Paladin or Vindicator)
DEFENSE
(V - Emerald Rank)

Bank Shot : Bank Shot allows you to ricochet projectiles and thrown weapons off objects on the way to their target. This means you do not need to have a straight shot, but can attack them while remaining hidden. A Bank Shot also bypasses any shield a target might be holding or using. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary), Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Bargainer : You are a master at the art of the deal. You gain a +5 to Diplomacy checks involving gold, and gain 10% more than the quoted price on any sell of an item to the Emporium. This does not stack with any other skill that gives you a better price at the Emporium such as Entitlement, or Fence.
FLAVOR

Bashing Finish : You follow a powerful blow from your weapon with an opportunistic bash from your shield. If you score a critical hit with your weapon, you may then follow through with a Shield Bash in the same round, stunning them for one round if they fail the DC15 Endurance Check.
Prerequisite: Shield Bash Skill, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Battle Blessing: With a word of faith, a metallic shimmer dances over your blade for an instant, leaving behind a thin layer of precious metal. You now have the advantage, invoking your deity's power to overcome your foe's damage reduction. For as many rounds as your INT bonus, you may have your weapon bypass any damage reduction that your enemy may have.
Prerequisites: Devout Class, Obsidian Rank

Bastion of Strength : There is nothing on the field of combat more dangerous than a man or woman that knows they are in the right. It pushes their endurance, it drives their arm, it opens their ability to see the dangers. A knight with this skill able to maker a fearsome blow once per combat, rolling their combat dice twice.
Prerequisite: Knight Profession (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Battle Hardened : You possess a greater reserve of energy and vitality to draw upon when you are wounded. Once per adventure, if you are wounded, you may invoke this skill and gain another 5 hit points that remains till the end of the mission or quest.
Prerequisites: Diehard Skill, Amber Rank
DEFENSE
(CC - Diehard, Amber Rank)

Battle Hymn: A bard at this rank can give such an energizing performance that it inspires those around him to greater prowess in battle. This skill causes all allies to gain a +1 to all rolls for the remainder of combat once this skill has been used.
Prerequisite: Bard (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Battle Rager : The heat of battle, the feel of the splatter of blood, the anger raging inside makes you a monster on the battlefield. Once per combat you may rage and roll 1d more of your dice. (So if you are 2d, you roll 3d. 3d rolls 4d. 4d rolls 5d)
Prerequisite: Combat Class Only (Primary), Topaz Rank
COMBAT - Extra 1d
(CC - Combatant Profession, Topaz Rank)

Battle Sense : Years in the field of battle have taught you to read the small signs presented by a foe giving you the ability to see just how they will come at you. As they close in you snap into action, slipping past their assault with one of your own. Once per combat, you may turn the damage meant for you back upon your attacker.
Prerequisite: Fighter Profession (Primary) & Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Beast Eye : The spellborn can project her senses into an animal within 100 feet, sensing whatever it senses. She cannot control the animal's actions. She can project her senses from that animal to another within 100 feet of it as a normal action, and can continue to make these sensory leaps, potentially viewing things very far from her actual location. She may return her senses to her own body as a free action. Normal animals get no saving throw against this ability, but animal companions, paladin mounts, and similar unusual animals may resist with a magic save; the spellborn may use this ability on her own familiar as if it were an animal.
Prerequisites: Spellborn (Primary), Amber Rank
FLAVOR

Beastspeak: While shapeshifted, you are able to speak normally in any language in which you are fluent.
Prerequisites: Shapeshifting
FLAVOR
(R)

Bestial Fury : A shapeshifter may shift into their hybrid or "war" form or their beast form, and for the duration of being in this shifted form, you gain a +5 DMG.
Prerequisites: Shapeshifting
COMBAT

Better Lucky than Good: Once per day, you can succeed where others would surely fail. If you roll a Critical Fail of 1, you may instead treat that roll as a hit.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Better Me Than You: You are a veteran of the battlefield, and know that in combat many things can go wrong. Once per combat, when you roll a critical fail, the roll on the 1d6 can be changed from whatever it is to a 4, so that you spare your allies and hit yourself instead.
Requirement: Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Big Bad Hoodoo : A shaman may enact a short, dark ritual used only in the most dire of circumstances to evoke the most powerful form of a Voodoo Curse. By bonding fibers of the victim's being to that of the Voodoo Doll, it creates a permanent spiritual link between both doll and subject. The doll is now a permanent effigy of the target and regardless of distance, may effect it as per regular Voodoo Curse. You may inflict pain or registered spells upon a target in such a way once every 24 hours.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Voodoo Curse, Obsidian Rank

Big Enough : You are able to wield a two-handed weapon for one of your dual wield weapons. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: "Large" and above races. This means Medium (Humans, Elves, etc) and below cannot take this skill no matter how muscular or big for your race you are. Even if you can shift into large creatures, this goes by your base race.

Bind the Beast: The mystic can magically cast a rune on a target turning them into a wild beast that is bound to serve them. The mystic is free to choose any creature that is between half and twice the size of the targeted foe. Most common are the forms of bears, great cats, wolves, boars, etc. The newly transformed use their own combat dice and traits though gaining a 1d8/1d8 claw, and 1d6 bite weapon. Mystic rolls 1d20 + Int bonus v.s. Target's 1d20 + willpower to force this skill. It lasts for one combat.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Bind The Dead: Any foe killed near you may be bound to you for the duration of an adventure to answer your questions and do minor tasks such as carry things, open doors, trigger traps, etc. This does not mean it can attack for you. While the spirit is bound to you, during adventures it ultimately depends upon the DM to agree limit the actions of the spirit. This also does not mean that the spirit is content in being a temporary slave.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary), Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

Binding Silence - You may use this at any time, even if it is not your turn, to silence a spellcaster amidst their casting causing that one spell to be interrupted and not end up being cast. No one takes damage, the spell simply fizzles. Once per combat.
Prerequsite: Druid (Primary), Ruby Rank
DEFENSE - Evade

Binding Triad : This triangular design allows the mystic to transform a hostile spell affecting him into a magical tattoo. When the mystic fails a saving throw against a spell that targets only him, he is able to bind the spell, suppressing its effects and suspending its duration for 1 round. Only spells with a duration longer than instantaneous can be bound this way, and only one spell can be held at a time. The next round of combat, on the Mystic's turn, the spell affects the mystic in full force. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Mystic Tattoo Skill, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Bitter Arms : When this skill is activated, all metal weapons that you wield are treated as being made of cold iron, including ammunition, and retain this property for up to 3 rounds of combat.
COMBAT

Blackened Flames : A purple spark erupts from your hand as your opposition is consumed in a black, vile flame, stunting their magic abilities as well as dealing 2d3 damage. You must pass your Strike, if you pass Strike then they are given a contested roll of the Black Mage's Intelligence vs. the Target's Willpower. If they fail, they are unable to cast any magic or use spells for one round of combat AND they take damage (magic damage, roll combat dice add INT, roll extra 2d3). This causes the target to be unable to cast any spells, defensive, offensive or otherwise. This does not affect spell-like abilities, only casting magic. If they pass their save, then they only take damage from this attack as specified above. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary)
COMBAT

Black Fester : This black paste is often applied on orc weapons before going on raids to stymie an enemy's healing magic. Like a poison, black fester stays on a weapon until the first time it strikes an opponent. It remains in the target's body for 1 hour. A creature exposed to black fester is unable to self-heal or use healing potions for one hour. Anyone that attempts to heal someone suffering from black fester must pass a DC15 Intelligence check, and even then it only heals half as many points as they are healed.
Prerequisite: Half-Orc
COMBAT
(R)

Black Magic Pact: Once a week, when an enemy of equal or lower dice that is under the shaman's Voodoo Curse is within 10 points of death, the shaman can attempt to swap the soul of a fallen ally for that of the expendable foe, restoring their ally's essence to the material plane in a resurrection. The chosen victim is allowed a Willpower Save of DC10 + Shaman's Intelligence Bonus. If they fail their save, the fallen ally will be revived from the dead as well as healed of any damage equal to the amount of hit points of the sacrificed victim, though it will never go over however many hit points the ally normally is given. For instance, if a creature with 22 hit points is sacrificed, the ally is resurrected and healed of 22 points of damage. If the pact fails, the victim gets an immediate full attack upon the shaman.
Prerequisites: Shaman (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Black Needle : A shaman that has used Big Bad Hoodoo on a target, may create a needle of pure darkness and use it to further harm any creature under her Voodoo Curse. The target is able to make a 1d20 + Willpower Bonus save against the DC of the shaman's skill. The save is 10 + 1 per Gemstone Rank, so a shaman of of Obsidian Rank would have a DC17. If the save is failed, the target becomes diseased, weak and ill. Only a healer of the same rank or higher than the Shaman may cure this disease. This skill can ONLY be used with permission from the DM, or storyline/mission leader and can only be used once per month.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Big Bad Hoodoo, Obsidian Rank

Black Sky : A Vindicator may use this AoE (area of effect) spell to create an area of magical darkness centered on the Vindicator in a radius of 30 feet around. All those within this area (including allies) must be able to use blindfight/blindsight to make any attacks, otherwise they lose a turn until the darkness fades within one round of combat.
Prerequisite: Vindicator, Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Blade of Zeal: A Vindicator's zealous hatred and killing intent for enemies of his god can be felt keenly through his blade and such an attack against a target hurts more than it rightly should. A Vindicator can use 1d extra combat dice, once per combat, against their enemies.
Prerequisite: Vindicator
COMBAT - Extra 1d
(V)

Bladewind : This allows a psion who has the mindblade skill to momentarily fragment his mind blade into two identical blades, each of which strikes at a nearby opponent for one round in combat. Your attack effects two targets during that one round, you must pass Strike for both of them.
Prerequisite: Psion, Emerald Rank, Mindblade Skill
COMBAT
(V - Emerald Rank, Mindblade Skill)

Blast, Foiled Again! : A high level Swashbuckler may attempt to monkey wrench any action an opponent is taking. The Swashbuckler may throw sand into a beholder's eye, bat aside a key spell component, strike a weapon hand with a thrown object, or flash the wizard as he begins his spell, but the result is the same: the opponent's action is wasted, ability used etc. A Swashbuckler must be within 30 feet of her opponent to use this ability, and must make an attack that hits. You must act quickly, and attempt to foil an action as it is declared, waiting until it is halfway through will not work. This does not work when wearing Heavy armor. This can be done once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Blessed Touch: Whenever a priest expends at least 5 points of healing from her healing point pool, she may also remove disease from any person she touches, and whenever she spends at least 10 points of healing, she may remove a curse from any person she touches. This is in addition to any healing that restores hit points.
Prerequisite: Priest, Healing Affinity, Ruby Rank
(V - Healing Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Blessing of the Dark Gods : Once per combat, you may use this skill to gain a +5 bonus to any strike roll or saving throw you are asked to make. You must state the use of this skill before you roll your dice.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Blindfight : The ability to act and react while blinded / in complete darkness. You do not see things, but you hear / smell / react to what is around you. You can melee fight without seeing your foes. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Combat Class OR Rogue or Monk Profession
(V)
(CC - Combatant or Sneaky Profession)

Blindsense : Using your senses, such as acute smell, hearing, or ability to see heat signatures; a creature with the blindsense skill notices things it cannot see, but without the precision of blindfight. Someone with blindsense cannot use this skill to make attacks but it will allow a person who cannot see the ability to make Listen checks whenever Spot checks are called for, and allows them to pinpoint creatures around them by sound, heat or smell. This is a constant effect.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Bling: If you have it, flaunt it; those are the words some nobles live by. He can now wear extra jewelry: choose an extra ring, an extra amulet/necklace or an extra bracelet, so long as he can dish out the gold to buy it. The effects of all magical jewelry he wears stack if applicable.
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Blistering Bands: These glowing, angular markings encircle the mystic's arms. Whenever the mystic casts a spell that deals energy damage (such as fire, cold, lightning), he can surround himself with an aura of that same energy for the rest of the combat. If the spell deals more than one type of energy damage, the mystic must choose which ONE of those types of energy to surround himself. This gives the mystic an extra +5 DEF against that one energy type he's surrounded himself with, that is allowed to go above the defense amount rules.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Mystic Tattoo Skill, Amber Rank
DEFENSE

Block and Punch : This skill allows a brawler to block an incoming melee weapon or unarmed attack taking only half damage, and then immediately make a counterattack upon the same target. Strike is rolled and the attack proceeds as normal. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Blood and Honor : In the midst of battle, you are able to pull into your inner reserves of strength to fight a little harder, and react a little faster. If you have lost half of your hit points during combat, you may use this skill to add half your strength bonus to your Strike, as well as your DMG to each round of attack until combat is over or you have died.
Prerequisite: Knight (primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Blood Energy : While a Vindicator's stigmata are bleeding, his blood runs down his weapons like sacred or profane liquid energy allowing him to add 1d to his weapon damage, once per combat. So, for instance if you have a dagger that does 1d4, this would allow you to roll 2d4 for damage, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary), Stigmata, Amber Rank
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Bloodlust: The sound of painful grunts, the pain of new wounds, the scent of blood in the air. You are in the thick of it, there is no escape for your enemy. Your anger is at full tilt, unable to control yourself you lunge forwards with nightmarish strength. You may roll your combat dice twice, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Brawler Profession (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Blood Rain : While his stigmata are bleeding, the vindicator's harmful energy is accompanied by a burst of sacred or profane liquid energy. The target is allowed to roll a save, 1d20 + Endurance Bonus vs. the Vindicators 1d20 + Strength Bonus. Creatures failing their saves against the channeled blast of energy lose a turn, unable to engage in combat. You do not roll a strike for this, and there is no damage, merely stunned for as many rounds you are allowed, or not stunned and merely covered in blood if they pass the save.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary), Stigmata, Emerald Rank
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Blood Ripper: When you successfully hit an opponent who is currently at full hit points, you deal an extra 2d4 damage. This cannot be used for a non-lethal attack. You may use this skill once per combat.
Prerequisites: Amber Rank
COMBAT

Blood Salvage : You are able to drink the blood of a dead body to heal yourself, though it must have died no longer than 6 hours ago. You may use this once per combat, and it heals up to 10hp outside of your normal self-healing points.
Prerequisites: Dark Embrace, Emerald Rank

Blood Splattered: The first time you deal damage in a melee encounter and you are sprayed with your enemy's blood (as determined by the DM) you gain a +2 bonus to your Defense DC and Endurance Checks for one round of combat. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Bloodthirsty Bullet : You fire your weapon at a target’s vital points, the energy of your shot tearing through armor and flesh alike to leave your enemy clutching at their wounds. Once per combat, your bullet bypasses any armor or non-magical defenses they may have.
Prerequisite: Use a gunpowder weapon.
COMBAT

Blurred Fist: This skill allows you to make one attack per combat that bypasses all defense boosts that your target may have such as armor, amulets, etc. They may still make defensive actions such as evade, but it negates their defense boosts.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Body Fuel: A psion can expand some traits at the expense of other traits. By giving up trait points in Strength, Quickness or Endurance, you may add to your Willpower, Intelligence or Charisma. You must abide by all trait point rules (cannot go over 16), and this is temporary and lasts for one adventure only.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary), Ruby Rank

Bonded: You and your pet act as one mind in two bodies, enjoying symmetry in battle, making it easy for you to keep your opponents off balance. Whenever you and your pet attack the same target in the same round, you both gain a +1 to Strike and Damage rolls that round. Also, if you are firing into melee and your pet is the only ally currently in combat with the target, you do not need 'combat marksman' to not hit your pet.
Prerequisites: Animal Companion or Familiar Skill

Bonding Strike: You are able to make a single melee attack against two enemies within reach. Each hit deals damage normally if you pass strike. If both attacks are successful, the targets are empathically bound together. Until the end of your next turn, all damage applied to one target is automatically applied to the other target, no matter which ally attacks them.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary), Obsidian
COMBAT

Bond with Terrain: A ranger forms a bond with the land itself, enabling him to assist others in such terrain. When in his favored terrain, the ranger grants all allies within line of sight and that can hear him a +2 bonus on Spot, Listen, Search, and Stealth skill checks. Also, as long as they travel with him, the ranger's allies leave no trail and can’t be tracked. The ranger can choose for the group to leave a trail, or even for specific members of the group to leave a trail if he so desires.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Favored Terrain Skill, Obsidian Rank

Bonebreaker : When your opponent is unable to adequately defend against them, your precise unarmed strikes break bone and tear tissue. When you make a successful strike against an opponent that is stunned, you may add in half of your Strength or Quickness bonus in addition to your normal bonuses for any unarmed attack you make in combat against a stunned target.
Prerequisite: Jawbreaker
COMBAT
(CC - Jawbreaker)

Boom! : You have a temper, you've been taken for granted and underestimated. Once per day, the healer may explode in a flurry of scolding hits dealing an extra 3d5 damage + your Strength Bonus to their opponent. There is a price to pay for such a temper though, and the healer is stunned for one round, leaving them unable to do anything including healing until they snap out of it.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary) Profession Only, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Boon : A mage can select one boon per gemstone rank beginning at Topaz, please mark this clearly on your dossier. You may only use each of your boons once per adventure, on yourself or a target. You may choose from the following boons, the rank needed for each is marked:
    1. Remove Stun (Topaz) - This removes one round of any stun / lose turn effect.
    2. Remove Fatigue Boon (Topaz) - This cancels the effects of "Fatigued".
    3. Remove Shaken Boon (Topaz) - This cancels the effects of "Shaken".
    4. Tongues Boon (Topaz) - This enables the target to understand and speak any language for 15 minutes.
    5. Remove Nausea Boon (Amber) - This removes the effects of "Nausea".
    6. Healing Boon (Amber) - Up to 10 hit points of damage is instantly healed from the target.
    7. Remove Frightened Boon (Amber) - This removes the effects of "Frightened".
    8. Happiness Boon (Amber) - The target cannot stop smiling.
    9. Remove Disease Boon (Sapphire) - Any one disease the target is inflicted with is cured.
    10. Fortune Boon (Sapphire) - The target rerolls one Strike, and takes the best of the two rolls.
    11. Remove Blindness Boon (Sapphire) - This removes blindness from the target.
    12. Remove Fear Stricken Boon (Emerald) - This cancels the effects of "Fear Stricken/Terrified".
    13. Greater Healing Boon (Emerald) - The target is healed instantly of all damage.
    14. Remove Sickened Boon (Emerald) - This removes the effects of "Sickened".
    15. Remove Exhaustion Boon (Ruby) - This removes the effects of "Exhausted".
    16. Remove Paralyzation Boon (Ruby) - Removes the effects of paralyzation.
    17. Courage Boon (Ruby) - For the remainder of the adventure, the target is always first on the scoreboard.
    18. Skillful Boon (Obsidian) - Cause target to gain 2 points to any one Trait for the remainder of combat.
    19. Awakening Boon (Obsidian) - Causes the target to awaken from any sleep effect.
    20. Warding Boon (Obsidian) - The target gains a +2 to their Defense DC for the remainder of combat.
    20. xxx Boon (Diamond) -
    20. xxx Boon (Diamond) -
    20. xxx Boon (Diamond) -
Prerequisites: Mage, Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Born by the Blade : The knight is trained to use all kinds of bladed weapons, and gains a bonus to strike when using one. At Amber, you gain +1 to Strike, at Sapphire a +2, and at Obsidian +3. This is a constant effect skill.
Prerequisite: Knight, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V - Amber Rank)

Born to Water: You may breathe underwater, swim as fast as you can walk, and fight underwater without any penalties. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: T'skrang Racial
(R)

Bottomless Pockets: Your pockets seem to have no end of useful objects that you packed with you on your journey. You can carry mundane equipment in your pockets instead of carrying a pack, and can retrieve any of your mundane gear without it taking up a round of combat.
FLAVOR

Bottoms Up : You have trained yourself to swallow liquids in one quick gulp. You are able to drink a potion as a free action during your turn, also allowing you to make a regular attack or action your turn that round.
COMBAT

Bounce Spell : If your spell fails through any means (usually due to the target passing their save) you may immediately direct that failed spell to a different target, seeking another save, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class, Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Bowling Bash : A knight can cause a chain reaction when attacking one opponent with a successful Strike, causing them to crash into a second opponent, both taking the same damage rolled, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary) Profession Only
COMBAT

Brain Drain : You can take a turn of combat to violently probe the mind of a single intelligent enemy within 100 feet. The target receives a Willpower save (DC10 + Mage's INT bonus) to negate the effect and immediately knows the source of this harmful mental prying if he passes the save. Those who fail this save are wracked with pain, taking 2d3 points of undefendable damage. After successfully using this skill, you may use a full-round action to sort through the jumble of stolen thoughts and memories to make a single knowledge check on anything that the target might know that you wish to find out. The randomly stolen thoughts remain in your mind for a number of rounds equal to your Charisma bonus. Treat the knowledge gained as if you had used detect thoughts. This is a mind-affecting effect. You can use this ability once per day.
Prerequisites: Spellborn (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Breadth of Experience : Although still young for your kind, you have a lifetime of knowledge and training. You may make an untrained knowledge check on any type of knowledge, and gain a +5 bonus to these rolls.
Prerequisite: Any long-lived race, be 100+ years old
FLAVOR
(R)

Breathtwist: You are able to change the nature of your energy breath weapon to deal a different type of energy for one round of combat. For instance, if your breath weapon is acid, you could change it to cold, electricity, fire, sonic, etc for one round. All other parameters of your breath weapon remain unchanged. At Sapphire, you twist it twice per combat, at Emerald three times, and at Ruby, four times. At Obsidian, you may change your breath weapon to a different element any time you wish.
Prerequisites: Have a breath weapon
COMBAT
(CC - Have a breath weapon)

Briarweb - A druid may call upon vegetation and briars once per combat to spring up and entangle a target, causing them to lose their turn/s. The druid must be in a natural environment to use this skill.
Prerequisite: Druid
COMBAT - Lose Turn
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Brilliant Inspiration: [Teamwork] You open a link between your mind and your teammate's mind that also has this skill, giving advice and encouragement, allowing them to roll two d20's for any d20 roll required of them. They may then take the better result. If any roll is a natural 20, the effect ends - your brilliant advice is spent. You may use this skill once per adventure. At Sapphire, twice per adventure. At Ruby, three times per adventure, at Obsidian four times per adventure, and at Diamond five times per adventure.

Bring 'Em Back Alive : A bloodhound can turn a potentially killing blow into an incapacitating one—all the better to bring a mark back for punishment. At the bloodhound’s option, any melee attack that would kill a foe, merely reduces them to one point above death (such as 9/10). The foe is knocked out.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound Profession
COMBAT
(V)

Bruised Armor : Due to punches and cuts on a Brawler's body, they gain a +3 boost to mundane DEF when wearing light or no armor throughout combat. At Emerald it bumps to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6. This is a constant effect skill.
Prerequisite: Brawler
DEFENSE
(V)

Brutal Critical: You know that the best time to plant a dagger in someone is right after a friendly pat on the back. You automatically score a critical hit when you successfully attack a target you've used Diplomacy on previously to gain a friendly attitude towards you (see the Diplomacy tactic). Once per combat.
Prerequisites: CHA 8, Non-Lawful Alignment, Brutal Deception Skill
COMBAT

Brutal Deception : You know that the best time to plant a dagger in someone is right after a friendly pat on the back. Once per day, you may add an extra 1d to your combat dice when you successfully attack a target with a friendly attitude towards you.
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Brutal Grappler : You may add in an extra half of your trait bonus during each round of a grapple that you choose to do damage.
Prerequisite: Half-Orc, Giantkin, or Brawler Profession
COMBAT
(V)

Brutish Durability: This skill makes you harder to kill. Each time you rank up a gemstone, you may add 3 hp. This is NOT retroactive, it starts when you take the skill, so please mark on your dossier the gemstone you take this skill. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Diehard

Buckler Mastery : You are a master at using a buckler, enabling you to shield bash using a buckler. Once per combat, you can use your buckler to bash a foe, rattling their brain and stunning them if they fail an Endurance check of DC15 , causing them to lose a turn for ONE round of combat only. This does not grow with rank.
Prerequisite: Must use a buckler.
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Bull Rush Strike : On a successful bull rush you may not only push them as per the Bull Rush rules, but you may also make an attack once per combat.
Prerequisite: Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(CC - Emerald Rank)

Bulwark : Your armor, your shield, your weapon, all of them are simple tools. It is the man or the woman within or behind them that is the threat. Your ability to attack is well known, here you demonstrate your ability to defend and deflect an assault. Once per combat, you may turn the damage meant for you back upon your attacker.
Prerequisite: Knight Profession (Primary) & Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Buzz : This skill allows a windling to sacrifice his attack to distract an opponent by flying around him erratically. For one round the target gives his attention only to the windling, and can only attack the windling. The windling gets a +2 to their Defense DC that round only. Can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Windling or Faerie Race
COMBAT
(R)

Bypass Wards : Ancient ruins often contain locked and sometimes warded doors; as such, a rogue can pick the lock of even a magically locked door (such as one sealed by an arcane lock) or a magically warded trap. This gives a rogue an extra +3 to their Disable Device Rogue Check on magically locked or warded doors.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Disable Device Skill and Magical Affinity

By the Bootstraps: Adventurers are known for their ability to succeed when everyone thought they would fail. When a rolled check fails to meet the target DC (or the opponent’s result, in the case of an opposed roll) by 5 points, he can consider the action a success, once per adventure. This success is, however, considered a marginal one with reduced effects. This must be played out at the DM's discretion; a barely achieved roll to roll out of the way of a trap might inflict the minimum possible damage for example.
Prerequisites: Reputation 35
FLAVOR

Calculated Hit: A thief adept has gained insight into how best to strike their opponents. Once per combat, they may roll Strike twice, and take best one.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Call Darkness : You have the skill to pull darkness around you and the area you are in, for 15 mun minutes. This is a thick magical darkness and unless one has Blindfight you cannot fight or see within this dark area. Darksight cannot pierce this magical darkness!
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR
(R - Magical or Psionic Affinity unless you have permission)

Called Shot: The ranger has learned how to take perfect aim. While aiming the ranger can attempt to strike a specific body part on a targeted creature within 30 feet, to cause various effects. The ranger must declare her intention to attempt a Called Shot and designate the specific target and body part (an arm, a leg, etc.) before strike roll is made. There is a penalty to the Strike Roll depending on the body part you aim for. If you damage the target, the effect causes debilitating conditions and penalties that stay in place until they are healed of at least 5 healing points.

--Arm: The ranger receives a -2 penalty to Strike. If hit, the target now has a penalty of -2 to damage, and any checks made that use the arm such as climb. A creature with more than four arms is immune to this penalty.

--Hand: The ranger receives a -3 penalty to Strike. If hit, the target drops whatever they are holding in that hand, as well as the penalties for striking the Arm mentioned above.

--Eye: The ranger receives a -4 penalty to Strike. If hit, the target is partially blinded, suffering a -2 to Defense DC and any Spot Checks. If both or all of its eyes are hit with Called Shots, the creature is permanently blinded. If the Called Shot also results in a Critical Hit, the arrow pierces the brain and the creature is forced to make an Endurance Check DC15 to save against death from massive damage, regardless of the damage roll (per the DM). A creature with blind-sight is immune to the penalties.

--Gut: No penalty to Strike. If hit, the target is nauseated each round until the arrow is removed and at least 5 damage healed.

--Leg: The ranger receives a -2 penalty to Strike. If hit, the target cannot make any run or charging actions. They gain a -2 penalty to Quickness, and any checks based on Quickness (Jump, Balance, etc) in which they utilize their legs. A creature with more than 4 legs is unaffected.

--Neck: The ranger receives a -3 to Strike. If hit, the target begins to bleed and takes 1d3 non-defensible damage each round until they are healed of at least 5 total points of damage.

--Wing: No penalty to Strike. If hit, this reduces target creature's Quickness by -2. A small or tiny creature hit loses the ability to fly and falls to the ground, a medium sized creature hit twice in the same wing loses the ability to fly and falls to the ground, a large creature must be hit three times in the same wing, a huge creature four, gargantuan five and colossal six times to lose ability to fly and fall, each taking appropriate falling damage per the DM (Seek DM's aid in determining your enemy size).

Prerequisites: Ranger, Emerald Rank
(V - Emerald Rank)
COMBAT

Call to the Blood Dancer: A vicious spirit of blood and wrath infuses you while you are using your Rune Fang skill, causing you to howl in fury as you slash your foe with claws and fang. For the remainder of time they remain in their Rune Fang form, a roll of 19-20 is considered a Critical Hit. They also gain a +1 to Strike.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Obsidian Rank, Rune Fang Skill
COMBAT

Calm Mind: The monk does not allow for the doubts, fears, or whims of modern day society interrupt their focus while on a task. Even in the chaos of battle they can keep their focus upon the task despite any losses they are their party may suffer. This state of calm allows for a monk to have a greater focus in battle, thus granting a +2 to their damage throughout combat. At Emerald it increases to +3, at Ruby +4 and at Obsidian +5. At Diamond it increases to +6. This is a constant effect skill.
Prerequisite: Monk only
COMBAT
(V)

Calm Under Duress: A life of adventuring gives the character a rock-steady hand and nerves of steel. The character can take 10 on a number of skill checks regardless of circumstance. The applicable skills are Acrobatics, Balance, Climb, Jump, Use Object and Knowledge checks. You may use this skill twice a day.
Prerequisites: Reputation 25
FLAVOR

Camouflage : A bloodhound of this rank can hide in any natural terrain, even if the terrain does not provide cover.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound OR Ranger AND Emerald Rank
(V - Emerald Rank)
FLAVOR

Camouflage Grippli: Gripplis receive a +5 bonus to Stealth checks in marshes, swamps and forested areas.
Prerequisite: Grippli Race Only
(R)

Cannibalize: You can eat the dead bodies around you in order to heal yourself of damage. Once per combat, you may cannibalize an adjacent dead body and heal yourself of all damage taken.
Prerequisite: Forsaken Racial
(R)

Can't Touch This : When a swashbuckler is fighting multiple villains, he may spring into action, tumbling and spinning and leaping allowing him to attack more than one opponent in one turn. Roll a 1d4, the number rolled is how many additional foes can be attacked. This allows breakdancing on the battlefield-use it. A strike must be passed for each target.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler Class AND Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(V - Ruby Rank)

Carouser : The ability to socialize informally with persons of all social classes, without being seen as an outsider. Also includes the ability to drink considerably less than most observers would think, and resistance to drunkenness as well as aphrodisiacs.
Prerequisite: Bard, Rogue, Noble, Swashbuckler, Swordmaster or Charmer
Magiken cannot gain resistance to aphrodisiacs with this.
(V)
FLAVOR

Casing the Joint : Allows a rogue to view a building from every vantage point for one hour's time, and they are able to get a good idea of the layout inside.
Prerequisite: Rogue, Bloodhound or Thief Adept
(V)
FLAVOR

Casterbane Shot: You can ready a ranged attack to target a spellcaster as soon as he begins casting a registered spell, if you pass Strike against the caster, you can lower the DC needed for the target of the spell by -2. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Ranged Weapon Only, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Catch Me If You Can: The swashbuckler doubles her movement speed when wearing light or no armor, allowing her to move with ease and speed around the battle area. This allows the swashbuckler to reach enemies faster than her other allies, and allows for an attack as well as the movement in one round in circumstances where the DM will only allow normally allow movement. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary)
COMBAT

Catchphrase : Once per adventure, the Swashbuckler may spout a clever catchphrase as a free action, allowing them to take a second turn at any point during a round (even if it's not his/her turn).
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler Class (Primary) AND Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Catfall: Instantly save yourself from a fall once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Mage, Psion, Spellborn
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
(CC)

Catfolk Pounce : You may make a full attack at the end of a bull rush. Instead of merely pushing your foe, you attack as well.
Prerequisite: Shapeshifting skill
COMBAT
(CC)

Cauldron Brew : A mage that has this skill uses a cauldron to brew her potions, and gains a boost to potion-making because of the use of the cauldron. At Amber, they may spend twice the gold to double their potions crafted without paying the extra CP, so they make 2 of the same potions for double crafter gp, and CP for one potion. At Emerald, they may pay triple the gold to triple their potions crafted without paying the extra CP. At Obsidian, they may pay four times the amount of gold for one without paying any extra CP for the extra potions, and make four potions for the CP cost of one potion.
Prerequisite: Mage (Primary), Alchemy Skill, Amber Rank

Celestial Charger : This skill turns your current mount (or gives you one if you do not have one) into a celestial steed. Your mount grows celestial wings, and can fly as fast as they can move on land. The mount is covered in celestial barding giving the mount an additional +5 to Defense. You gain the skill, "Mounted Combat" for free if you do not have it.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary)

Celestial Heritage : Your ancestry includes angels or demons. This gives you a charmed existence, and allows you to pass one save or check once per day without rolling. You are also able to tell if someone is lying or telling the truth as long as they do not have an ability that blocks such a thing.
Prerequisite: You must have a demon or angel in your ancestry.
(R)

Celestial Smite : Once per combat, if you are attacked you may turn the entirety of the attack back upon your enemy as you call to your deity and create a blast of holy energy that reflects the attack back to the attacker.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Celestial Wings : An aasimar is able to grow angelic wings, or a tiefling is able to grow devilish wings, allowing them to fly temporarily.
Prerequisite: Aasimar or Tiefling Race
FLAVOR
(R)

Chain Power: A psion who is able to manifest any of the elements of fire, cold, electricity, acid or sonic can arc their non-regged psionic attack to one other target, both taking the same amount of damage if you pass Strike for both of them. At Obsidian, you may arc to two other targets. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Psion (Primary) or Spellborn (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Chameleon's Disguise: You can control your shifting abilities to only alter only your coloring and blending into your environment. Once per day, you can use this skill to gain +5 to Stealth while blending into a background. This skill won't work out in the open, and sudden movements make the blending useless and end the bonus.
Prerequisite: Changeling
FLAVOR
(R)

Champion Challenge : This allows you to call out a formal challenge to the leader of your enemies, urging him to let single combat decide an impending battle. You roll a 1d20 Intimidate Check against their 1d20 Check (they may add Strength or Willpower). If the opponent wins, he may ignore the challenge. If the opponent loses, then the leader is bound to accepting the challenge. Either you, or your chosen champion must face the leader, or his chosen champion in one-on-one combat to the finish. You must have DM permission to use this skill.
Prerequisite: Combat (Primary) Class
COMBAT

Changeling Beasthide : While normally changelings can only take the forms of medium humanoid type races, this allows a changeling to take the disguise of a small or medium sized animal. While in this beast form you gain a natural attack of 1d4 damage that does either bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage (depending on the form). Your equipment does not shift with you.
Prerequisites: Changeling
COMBAT
(R)

Changeling Trickster: A changeling can take the form and shape of any medium sized race.
Prerequisites: Changeling Racial
(R)

Charismatic Fighter : This style of swordplay uses wit and force of personality to increase accuracy taunting and distracting an opponent with feints, misdirection, and deception. When using a light melee weapon, you can use your Charisma Bonus instead of your Quickness Bonus to add to your Strike. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary), Swordmaster (Primary), Charmer (Primary) or Bard (Primary) only.
COMBAT

Charlatan : You're adept at fooling people. You know how to tell them just what they want to hear; you are especially adept at telling lies that people believe to be truth. +5 to Bluff.
FLAVOR

Charming Beauty : A charmer is a stunning physical specimen, so much so that it is difficult to land a hit on her in combat as the attention keeps moving to just how beautiful or handsome the charmer looks. The charmer gains a +3 mundane defense throughout combat. At Emerald it increases to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6 DEF. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Charmer
DEFENSE
(V)

Charnel Miasma : Your close connection to dark and harmful magic causes others to find your company unpleasant. You exude an almost imperceptible scent of the grave wherever you go. You may use this to your favor and gain a +2 to Intimidate Checks when you are close enough for your target or targets to smell the scent of the grave. At Emerald it increases to +3, and at Obsidian +4, at Diamond +5.
Prerequisite: Black Mage
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Charon : A high-level Vindicator may, once per combat, sacrifice an amount of their own hit points to force a single foe within 30 feet to make a Willpower save, or take the full damage. The target rolls 1d20 + Willpower Bonus, against the Vindicator's 1d20 + Intelligence Bonus. If the target passes their save, they only take half of the sacrificed hit points as damage (rounded down). If they fail their save, they take the full sacrificed hit point damage.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Cheap Shot : Whenever you roll a critical hit, you do an extra 1d6 undefendable damage to the target.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession, Finish Him Off Skill
COMBAT

Cheat Death : Once per week, an attack upon you that should kill you, leaves you merely wounded and near death within one point of death. So if you were 20hp you'd be 19/20.
(CC)

Childlike : You are small, and youthful looking enough to pass for a human child when you wish. This causes people to trust you more than they normally would. You may take 10 on any Bluff Checks so long as your story makes you appear innocent.
FLAVOR
(R)

Chink in the Armor: You are adept at slipping a weapon between armor plates or into seams, allowing you one melee attack per combat that disregards the mundane defenses of your target.
Prerequisites: Light or One-handed Weapon, QCK 7, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Chin Music: There is a spot, on the jaw, that if struck just right, puts the assaulted into dream land. As a Brawler, you've learned to master this skill. In one quick flash you set knuckles or foot to that spot and knock your target clean out, stunning them. Use once per combat, target loses a turn from Brawler's attack. Willpower save against brawler's DC10 + Strength each round.
Prerequisite: Brawler (Primary)
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Chokehold : Upon making a successful grapple, you have pinned your opponent into a chokehold. A creature in a chokehold cannot speak, causing them to be unable to cast any spells or use any item that requires a trigger word during the grapple. Once per combat.
COMBAT
(CC - Combatant or Defender Profession)

Chosen One : The paladin has trained himself to protect others and to keep them safe, no matter the cost. The paladin must sacrifice all other actions on their turn to keep this up, but he is able to completely cover and protect any one party member on the field and still retains any skills that boost his defense.
Prerequisite: Paladin
DEFENSE
(V)

Chosen Terrain : Once per day, a ranger can choose a single terrain type that is not one of his chosen favored terrains. For the duration of a quest or mission, he treats that terrain as if it were one of his favored terrains.
Prerequisites: Favored Terrain, Ranger

Chronomancy Focus : You focus much if not all of your magic spells on chronomancy - the magic of time. You gain a +2 to your spell save DC to all spells with the chronomancy type, as well as +2 to all saves against chronomancy magic targetted against you.
Prerequisite: Magical/Psionic Affinity, can be taken as a kh'ronen racial skill

Chug : You are experienced at draining drinks quickly and in multiples—an ability likely gained from spending too much time at the tavern waiting for your party to show up. You are able to drink two potions as a free action, also allowing you to make a regular attack or action your turn that round.
Prerequisites: Bottoms Up
COMBAT

Clairgustance : You can taste things, without having to consume them or even put them in your mouth. You know what a stew, cake, or glass of wine tastes like by simply looking at it. This gift gives the Psion immunity against poisons that have a taste as they are able to detect it - type of poison and how it is used doesn't matter, so long as the substance has a taste it can be detected.
Prerequisite: Psionic Affinity

Clairvoyant : You have visions, of past and of things to come. You know things. Things most people would not. Whether a person, an animal or an object or weapon.. you can see the past or the future. [DM's discretion of what you learn.]
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Clarity of Vision: Your visual talents are so skilled that you can briefly see invisible opponents. If you are fighting an invisible foe, at the start of your turn you may make a DC20 Spot Check, if you pass then you can pinpoint the location of invisible foes within 30 feet. This clarity lasts until the end of your turn.
Prerequisites: Alert
FLAVOR

Claw Fall: A fall can hurt, even be deadly, but you've discovered if you can dig your claws into a soft enough surface, your sheer strength can slow down your descent. Using this skill, all fall damage is reduced by half if there is a wall close enough to get claws onto.
Requirement: A clawed race
FLAVOR
(R)

Claw Strike : You are a type of creature that has claws, and when you choose to use those claws you use them as weapons of 1d5 per hand (2d5 for both hands). Claw Strike does not work if you are using an unarmed tech or weapon with the same hand/s. This is a constant effect skill. Whatever trait you use for melee, you use with this skill; ie. If you have Dexterous Fighter you'd use QCK for damage. This is considered your weapon, and you may enchant your claw strike up to five points of enchantments total as if this was a tech of 2d5 dmg.
Prerequisite: Lycan Race, or any Clawed Race
COMBAT
(CC - Have claws)
(R)

Cleaving Blow: You have gained mastery using a two-handed weapon and the supernatural strength placed behind each blow, allowing for a devastating horizontal or piercing attack to quickly dispatch multiple foes. Once per combat, you may choose two nearby targets to attack. You must roll Strike on both. If you succesfully hit your targets, both take the full damage that you roll with your dice.
Prerequisites: Two-Handed Expert, STR 10, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Cleric's Bargain: A priest or priestess can buy Rezz Dead potions and Rezz Coins from the Emporium for half price.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary)

Close Quarters Fighting: Swashbucklers can fight normally when grappled or pinned. People can still hurt her in a grapple, however she can move around enough to easily use any of her weapons. Additionally, she can fight without penalty in cramped conditions. These abilities do not work when wearing medium or heavy armor. This is a constant effect skill.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler
COMBAT
(V)

Clothes to Chocolate/Oil : A charmer with magical ability can turn one's clothing into chocolate, or sweet scented oil. The target gets a willpower save of 1d20, DC15 against this ability, if they pass then the ability did not work. If they fail, their clothes have turned to chocolate or oil (per charmer's choice) and they lose all mundane defense boosts for the rest of the combat (leather armor, bracers, clothing, etc but not magical defenses) unless they take one round to dress themselves again instead of attacking. Their clothes are nearby neatly folded when this spell is successful.
Prerequisites: Charmer (Primary) Profession, Magical Affinity, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Cloud Leaper : This gives a monk a -5 to the DC of any Athletics or Acrobatics check that they are required to make, once per adventure. For instance, if the DC of a Jump is 15, it would be 10 for the Monk.
Prerequisite: Monk Only
FLAVOR

Cloud Step : You are able to walk upon the air for a distance not exceeding 50 feet, and must end on a solid surface.
Prerequisite: Monk
(V)
FLAVOR

Coat of Arms : A Knight that bears their coat of arms somewhere, such as a tabbard, or shield, gives those fighting with him or her a boost to their Strike of +1 for the entirety of one combat. Only one Coat of Arms may be in effect at any given time.
Prerequisites: Knight or Paladin
COMBAT
(V)

Code Breaker: You are adept at deciphering the secret codes and scripts of others, granting you a +5 to your results when attempting to crack any code.
Prerequisite: Rogue, Thief Adept, Bard
FLAVOR
(V - Intelligence 5)

Cold Affinity: Iceborn are immune to cold, and adept with cold-type spells, giving them an extra +1 to any save DC's targets must make against their cold spells.
Prerequisites: Iceborn Racial
(R)

Cold One: You are able to hide from the undead, but in exchange for this power you may not be healed in any way with positive energy while you are using this skill. Undead treat you as one of their own, but if you make any attacks against them this skill ends.
Prerequisites: Mage, Psion, Black Mage, Spellborn
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Collective Recollection [TEAMWORK]: Teammates may choose to work together for knowledge checks, enabling two individuals to roll a knowledge check (for the same type of knowledge) and add their final totals together.
Prerequisites: Any Knowledge Skill

Colossus Hunter : You have honed your skill at fighting massive creatures, and know exactly where to hit them to do the most damage. You do +1 extra damage per size category above yours. So with the chart below, this means that a Tiny creature does +2 extra damage to Medium sized creatures. This is a constant effect.
Here are the size categories with one or two examples.
Tiny (Windling, Faerie)
Small (Gnome, Halfling, Faerie Dragon)
Medium (Almost all races in OH)
Large (Giantkin, Giants, Obsidiman, Dire Animals)
Huge (Some Dragons, Triceratops)
Gargantuan (Most Dragons, Kraken)
Colossal (Elder Titan, Stone Colossus)
Titanic (Anything bigger than Colossal)
COMBAT
(CC - Combatant Profession)

Combat Affinity : You have an innate or learned fighting style. You cannot use combat maneuvers in OH without this skill.

Combat Climbing: The Swashbuckler is extremely adept at climbing. He needn't even hang on with his hands, and can fight just fine hanging upside-down. When he fights while climbing, enemies must pass a Climb Check as well as Strike to hit the Swashbuckler of DC15, if they fail then the swashbuckler is safe. This does not work in any armor heavier than light. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Combat Cloak Defense : You must have purchased and wear a dueling cloak to use this skill. You may use your dueling cloak to confuse your foes by holding it like a curtain in front of you, making it difficult for enemies to read your defensive moves. This allows a swashbuckler to evade 1/2 damage once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler or Swordmaster, Dueling Cloak
DEFENSE - Evade
(V)

Combat Cloak Whirl : You must have purchased and wear a dueling cloak to use this skill. You can attempt to use your cloak to confuse your opponent. After successfully striking an opponent in melee, you whirl your cloak around him, temporarily ruining his defenses as the enemy becomes confused. Your opponent cannot make any attacks against you (or a chosen ally you are protecting) for one round, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler or Swordmaster, Dueling Cloak
COMBAT
(V)

Combat Marksman : You can send your ranged weapon into melee fighting without fear of hitting allies. If you do NOT have this skill, if you send any ranged weapon into melee, a roll will be made to see if you hit the baddie or one of your companions. This is a constant effect.

Combat Medic : A healer who is trained in working on the battlefield, who can dash in and give simple healing, bandaging to stop bleeding and the like and then dart back out of the line of fire. A combat medic has up to 10hp outside of their normal healing point pool to heal during combat when someone is injured and DOES NOT have to wait for their turn to heal. When someone is injured simply post (Combat Medic!) and roleplay running to them and giving healing. This is mundane first aid, it is not positive energy. You may use Combat Medic once per combat.
Prerequisite: Healer
(V)

Combat Panache: Your glowing personality and sharp performance abilities allow you to navigate the battlefield on sheer chutzpah alone. While others rely on swords and armor, you use your cutting wit and ability to manipulate others.The Combat Panache skill grants you access to three special tactics. At Amber you gain "Play Dead", at Emerald you gain "Fortuitous Tumble" and at Ruby you gain "Sneering Glower". You may choose ONE of these three tactics per combat, and use it. At Diamond, you may choose TWO of these three tactics per combat to use.
Prerequisites: CHA 6, Bard, Noble, Swordmaster or Rogue Only
COMBAT

Play Dead: You crumple to the ground as if slain, luring your opponent into a false sense of security. As an immediate action after you are hit for at least 10 points of damage by a single attack, you can attempt to play dead. You drop prone and make a Bluff check opposed by your attacker's (or any other relevant observer's) Insight check. If you succeed on this check, the observer assumes you are dead. If you subsequently rise and attack him in the same round, he loses his QCK bonus to his DDC, making it a DC10 to Strike for the first attack that you make.

Fortuitous Tumble: For a brief moment, you appear to let your guard down. As your foe swings at you, you slip out of the way, causing his attack to slam into one of his allies. By positioning yourself correctly and making yourself an appealing target, you dupe your foe into making a critical blunder. To use this tactic, you must be successfully attacked and take damage from a foe. On your next turn, you can make a Bluff check opposed by your target's Insight. If you succeed on the check, you can take an immediate action at the start of your chosen foe's next turn and designate a different target for your opponent's next melee attack. The target must be within range of the melee attack.

Sneering Glower: With just the right mix of your intimidating presence and your martial talents, you strike such fear into your target that he has difficulty fighting you effectively. On your next turn after you deal at least 1 point of damage to your opponent, you can make an Intimidate check against him. If you succeed on this check, your foe takes a penalty to his Strike rolls against you equal to half your Charisma bonus. You can gain this benefit against only one foe at a time; it lasts for the duration of the combat or until you switch targets. If you designate a new target for this ability (by attempting a new Intimidate check against a different creature), the previous target no longer takes the penalty on his strike rolls against you. Opponents that are immune to the effects of the Intimidate skill, such as mindless creatures and those with immunity to fear, are immune to this tactic.

Combat Teleport : Once per combat, a caster with this skill may teleport to any location within 25 feet, allowing them to evade all damage.
Prerequisite: Teleport Skill or Psychoportation Circle, Sapphire Rank
DEFENSE - Evade
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Command Pleasure Zones : The seducer has the power to move one's erotic zones, so that perhaps even the act of shaking one's hand, or caressing the cheek, or running fingers through the hair gives as much pleasure as if they were touching the erogenous zones of the normal body. Used in combat, touching the opponent can cause them to become so disoriented at the feeling that they are stunned and unable to attack for one round of combat. You must physically be able to touch the target, and allow them a Willpower save of DC10 + the Charmer's Charisma. If they fail, no damage is done but they are stunned for one round only.
Prerequisite: Charmer
COMBAT - Lose Turn (1 Round)
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Commune with Nature : This gives you the ability to communicate with nature to find out basic information such as locate water, find path, what animals saw recently, etc.
Prerequisites: Druid, Shaman or Ranger Only
FLAVOR

Companion Boon: You may take this skill for your Animal Companion or a Familiar with stats (Familiar, Imp Companion, etc). This skill boosts your companion's dice by 5 sides, so a companion with 2d80 would be 2d85.
Prerequisites: Any Animal Companion or Familiar Skill, Owner is Ruby Rank
(CC - Owner is Ruby Rank)

Compel Hostility: Whenever a creature that you can see makes an attack against one of your allies, you can instantly compel that creature to attack you instead. The original target remains unscathed, and the attack is now made against you, regardless if the strike they rolled would normally hit you or not. You cannot use any type of evade against this attack. This can be used once per combat.
COMBAT

Competitive Edge: During activities, you become so competitive that you simply cannot miss or be left behind. In marksmanship, racing and horseshoes all rolls of 1 are automatically 2's. Does not include Jousting, any type of Sparring, or other specialty event for tournaments or games.

Concealed Healing : You are so skilled at healing during combat, that the enemies do not take notice of what you are doing, allowing you to keep from being targeted for attack.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary) Profession Only
FLAVOR

Concealed Spellcasting : You are able to cast spells without bringing any attention to yourself. Why is this helpful? Because it's common knowledge that taking out the spellcaster first is the best move most times, for your own tactics or enemy tactics.
Prerequisites: Magical Affinity
FLAVOR

Conceal Weapon : Allows a Thief to hide a weapon using sleight of hand and illusion magic. Must make an actual attempt to hide the item, but the illusion will mask any obvious shortcomings (ie: the hilt sticking out of a pocket.) Can only be used on one-handed weapons, and it must be listed on your dossier as a hidden weapon. DC to detect is a roll plus the Thief's quickness and intelligence. If a weapon concealed in such a way is undetected, it may be used along with Surprise Strike even if the Thief is already detected.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept AND Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V - Emerald Rank)

Concerted Attack: [Teamwork] You and your allies are trained to work as a team while defeating your foes. When allies who have this skill are attacking the same foe in combat, each ally gains a +2 to Strike against that one foe for as long as they are focused on the same foe.
COMBAT

Concussive Breath : When you use your breath weapon, you have the ability to stun your opponent as well as damage them. They must pass an Endurance check of 10+ your gemstone level (such as Topaz would be 12, Amber would be 13), if they fail then they not only take damage but are stunned and unable to react for as many rounds as allowed by rank. A save is given for each round. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: You must have a breath weapon per your race.
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Condemnation: This allows a cleric to attack two evil aligned opponents in one round, once per combat. The cleric may choose to make both attacks on the same target if they so desire.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary)
COMBAT

Confound the Caster: Whenever you successfully pass a spell save, you may cause the caster of the spell to become confused for as many rounds as a normal lose turn is allowed if they fail a Willpower Check of DC10 + Your Quickness. They do get a save each round.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
COMBAT

Constant Cover : A swashbuckler can always find cover, no matter the situation. Once per combat, a swashbuckler can use this cover to block the damage of an attack.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary)
DEFENSE - Evade

Consume Doll : A shaman may devour the doll which he is currently using with Voodoo Curse, and by doing so use the powerful spiritual link to convert the victim's pain into positive healing energy for the shaman. This action deals 3d5 non-defendable damage to the target, and the shaman is healed for as many points as the damage. This is a full combat action, no other dice need be rolled save for the 3d5 damage. This destroys the doll, and stops any Voodoo Curse that was going on.
Prerequisite: Shaman, Voodoo Curse
COMBAT

Contact Perception: Although your sight is gone, you still remember the feel of certain objects. Instead of rolling a Search based on Perception, you roll a Search based on Intelligence as you use your memories to determine what it is you are feeling with your hands; you take a -4 penalty to your check. This can be dangerous in certain situations, and there is a high chance of triggering traps using contact perception.
Prerequisites: Blindsense AND Blind Flaw or Lost Eye Flaw
FLAVOR

Control Body: Take rudimentary control of your foe’s limbs, causing them to attack another enemy for one round of combat.
Prerequisite: Psion
COMBAT
(V - Psionic Affinity)

Coordinated Attack: [Teamwork]
You and an ally gain damage bonuses on attacks. If you hit an opponent with an attack, until your next turn, the next successful attack made by any ally with the Coordinated Attack skill against the same opponent deals +5 damage. This can be used once per combat.
COMBAT

Cooperative Defense : Whenever a spell targets one or more allies within 30 feet, you can use this skill to allow your allies to use your saving throw against the effect in place of their own. Each ally must make this choice individually before the rolls are made. This can be used once per combat.
DEFENSE
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), Emerald Rank

Correcting Aim : You gain a +2 to your ranged Strike in the round immediately after a miss, only if you go after the same target as the round before, as you've corrected your aim and have a better chance of hitting. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Ranger
COMBAT
(V)

Cosmopolitan : Your exposure to the workings of the city has taught you things you ordinarily would never have uncovered. This gives you a +5 to any Knowledge check you take concerning urban settings, and allows you to know who you need to talk to for certain dealings.
FLAVOR

Counter Attack : If an enemy attempts to attack you and you take damage, you may counter attack them immediately. Roll strike as normal, and then proceed. This can be used once per combat.
COMBAT
(CC)

Counterpoint to Inspiration [Teamwork]
When an allied bard with this skill is within 60 feet and uses their bardic performance to grant allies a bonus, you may perform the same bardic performance or to increase those bonuses by +1. This increase only lasts as long as you and your ally each maintain the same performance, and can only be extended if you both have Lasting Inspiration.
Prerequisite: Bard Profession

Crafter's Comprehension: After hours of working in your field, there is no one that could argue the depth of your knowledge. Taking this skill allows you a +5 to any knowledge checks that involve crafting skills that you've acquired.
Prerequisites: Artisan Crafting, Alchemy, Poisonmaking And Use, Engineering Knack, or Craft Magic Item.
FLAVOR

Craft Magic Item : This crafting skill allows you to create magical items, or enchant weapons or armor, and sell them to others. You may choose one type of CMI crafting per gemstone rank, and be sure this is listed very clearly on your dossier.
Types of CMI
    Magical Weapons/Weapon Tech and Invocation Enchants
    Magical Armor/Armor Tech Enchants
    Magical Jewelry
    Magical Clothing
    Magical Fireworks
    Inkantation
    Etch Runes
    Wandcraft
    Dragoncrafting
    Wards and Mythals
    Bard Instrument Enchantments
    Wondrous Items [Ruby Rank]
    Unarmed Weapon Tech Scrolls
    Unarmed Defense/Armor Tech Scrolls
    Invocation/Evocation Scrolls
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity

Crafting Prodigy : This skill lowers the amount of CP needed to craft items to 1CP per 1000gp, instead of the normal 1CP per 500gp.
Prerequisite: Obsidian Rank and Advanced Crafting

Crane Riposte: When you use the Crane Wing skill, you may make an immediate counter attack upon the target after evading the damage, once per combat. If you make strike, you proceed with damage as normal.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Crane Wing Skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Counterattack

Crane Wing: You move with the speed and finesse of an avian hunter, your sweeping blocks and graceful motions allowing you to evade one melee attack with ease so that you take no damage when you otherwise would take damage, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Amber Rank
DEFENSE - Evade

Craven : This skill allows a rogue to roll a 1d extra for one weapon roll during their Primary Strike. So, for instance, someone using a sword would roll 2d6 for weapon damage instead of 1d6.
Prerequisite: Rogue Profession, Emerald Rank
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Create Doll : A shaman may create a featureless doll, save for the basic anatomy of a body, which takes up one round of combat. The doll is the vessel for the shaman's Voodoo Curse. The doll will work only on the person that the shaman has chosen during the creation of the doll. The target is allowed a Willpower Save against the creation of the doll. The save is 10 + shaman's INT. A doll lasts for one full combat.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary)
COMBAT

Creature Comforts: With this skill if you are in the wild or exploring you are able to call forth a small camp from your bottomless pockets. It has a small tent, bedroll, small pack of meats and mead, and everything needed to make a fire for the night. It can only be used once per day for about 8 hours.
Prerequisite: Bottomless Pockets Skill
FLAVOR

Crescendo of Blood: This battle hymn is the result of the culmination of skills for those that walk the path of the blade and waltz across the verses of song and poem. Standing in the midst of combat they begin to sing out this hymn, which grows in potency with the amount of foes slain during the song. The song's effect lasts only as long as the person sings/plays it. For every foe slain during the song grants the party a Temporary boost of 2 HP. When song ends those temporary hit points vanish which could result in their death.
Prerequisites: Bard (Primary) AND Combat Class (Secondary Class)
COMBAT

Crippling Disgrace : This allows a priest to curse a group of up to 8 creatures with a crippling disease. This can be used once per week. Each target gains an Endurance save of DC10 + the cleric's Intelligence trait points. The target must gain a Cure Disease, or be afflicted by the disease.
Conditions:
1st Round - Exhaustion & Fever, -2 to Strike
2nd Round - Break out in oozing sores, -4 to Attacks
3rd Round - Nausea & Vomiting, Lose Turn
4th Round & Beyond - Too sick & weak to fight any longer. Cannot engage in any combat until you are cured. Covered in oozing scabs, purple from infection, nausea, fever.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Crippling Strike: A bloodhound can deliver a strike against his mark with such precision that a successful attack also deals 2 points of Strength OR Quickness (Bloodhound must choose in attack post) damage to the mark. A bloodhound can deliver a crippling strike with a melee attack, or with a ranged attack from a distance of up to 30 feet. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Critical Shift: You may choose to forgo a critical hit in order to pass it on to an ally. Once per combat, if you roll a critical hit, choose another ally to use the critical on their next turn. You must choose and name your ally before your turn ends.
Combat

Crowd Tactics: You are adept with dealing with crowds. This skill allows you to gain certain benefits when a crowd is indifferent, or friendly to you. You are able to move with ease within the crowd without any need of special checks. You gain a +5 to Hide Checks while within a crowd of people. You are able to influence groups instead of merely individuals, gaining a +5 to either Intimidate or Diplomacy while attempting to influence a crowd of people. You cannot use any other skills for Diplomacy while using this skill, but you may use loot items, and spells. The amount of people you can influence increases with your gemstone rank, 10 people per gemstone rank.
FLAVOR

Culinary Alchemy: You've expanded your potion-making skills to include food or baked goods. The goods you make still have all the same effects as the potions you cook into them, just prepared differently with your own flavor.
Prerequisite: Alchemy
FLAVOR

Cull Wand Essence : You can focus the raw magical energy of a wand or staff into a stronger beam of energy, once per combat, giving an extra 1d to the wand damage roll. For example, a charge from a wand that would normally deal 1d3 would for that one attack deal 2d3 damage.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Cult of Personality: People can't help but like you. And why shouldn't they; you're amazing! When interacting with non-hostile NPCs, their attitude is always friendly regardless of the allegiances or reputation of either party. Note that circumstances that would make an NPC hostile void the effects of this skill and proceed normally. In other words, don't expect to rob them and kill their family and get away with it.
Prerequisite: CHA 10, Reputation (Fame) 50
FLAVOR

Cumbrous Endurance: Before rolling an Endurance save for your animal companion or familiar, you can decide to activate this skill, which gives you a +5 bonus on your save. After the save is resolved, regardless of the result, your companion loses its next turn. Once per combat.
(CC - Sapphire Rank)

Cumbrous Willpower: Before rolling a Willpower save for your animal companion or familiar, you can decide to activate this skill, which gives you a +5 bonus on your save. After the save is resolved, regardless of the result, your companion loses its next turn. Once per combat.
(CC - Sapphire Rank)

Cure Disease : A healer is able to cure minor diseases and illnesses in a patient. DM always has final say as to the level of a disease or illness.
Prerequisite: Healer
(V - Healing Affinity)

Curse of the Flesh : If the shaman happens to possess any piece of the physical body of a creature (such as a lock of hair, a nail or a finger) this particular creature takes a -4 penalty to Willpower Saves against the doll creation. This skill may be used in conjunction with the skill "Create Doll.".
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Create Doll

Curse of the Mask: A ghostly version of your mask appears on the target’s face, stealing away his or her vision. The target is blinded, and his Defense DC is now 10 for a number of rounds equal to your rank (use lose turn rounds), unless the target can fight without the use of his eyes. The target is given a save every round of their Willpower vs. DC10 + the Shaman's Intelligence.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary or Secondary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Curseproof : Vindicators become immune to all curses. They may use cursed items without penalties. This is a constant effect skill.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary), Emerald Rank

Cynosure : Teleportation to an exact place. Magiken can merely think of a place they've been before, or seen in a book, or on a map or even been described to before, and be instantly teleported to it.
Prerequisite: Magiken Race only
FLAVOR
(R)

Dance Magic: You've learned to cast magic without the need for a verbal component, instead replacing that with some form of physical gesture that must be repeated correctly each time. This also allows you to cast spells while silenced, but you can't cast any spells while bound or physically restrained. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Magical / Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Dance of a Hundred Cuts: You become a lethal combat dancer, swirling and spinning with grace and precision. For one round you gain a +3 to Strike and Damage, as well as +2 to your DDC for that round. You must continue to move throughout that round to gain the benefits. This may be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swordmaster (Primary)
COMBAT

Dance of Thousand Cuts: This is an upgrade to Dance of a Hundred Cuts, granting you all the benefits of Hundred Cuts with the addition of allowing you a counterattack against each enemy that attacks you during the round this skill is in effect. This may be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Dance of a Hundred Cuts, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Dance of the Unicorn: Whirling your pointed finger through a complex gesture, you create a cool and fresh mist that cleanses the air of pollutants. You surround you and your allies with a purifying, swirling mist that washes the air clean of smoke, dust, and poisons. Non-magical contaminants, including inhaled poisons, are automatically negated within the cloud.
Prerequisite: Druid, Emerald Rank

Daredevil Athlete : You are capable of pulling off amazing stunts. Three times per day, you can immediately gain a +5 bonus on a single Acrobatics or Athletics, Escape or Ride check. Must be stated BEFORE you roll for check.
FLAVOR
(CC)

Dark Companion: Your companion's natural attacks are infused with shadow. This is a constant effect.
(CC - Magical Profession)

Dark Embrace: The blood drinker finds the urge to draw life into their wounded body to undo the damage done. They roll a strike against their target. If they hit, then they choose how many of their self healing points will go to damage against the target, and they heal as many points as is damaged. Def does not apply for target. If attack misses, no self heal points are lost. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Blood Feeding Creature, Self Heal Skill
COMBAT
(R)

Darksight : The ability to see in total darkness up to 60 feet. This is a constant effect.
(CC)
(R)

Darkwood Body : Instead of a steel/mithral/adamantine or other metal body, your structure is largely made of darkwood. Your defense decreases to +5 Natural Defense, but you are treated as having only Light Armor instead of Medium Armor for init penalties. This is the usual path of a Warforged Druid. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Warforged
DEFENSE
(R)

Daywalker : The vampire has grown in power and endurance, and is able to walk in daylight without taking damage in the sunlight for short periods of time. By making use of clothing that covers the skin, and staying in the shadows, a vampire can move about fairly normal. Extended exposure to sun will still cause damage, so no sunbathing!
Prerequisites: Vampire Race Only
FLAVOR
(R)

Dead End : You know what your opponent is going to do. You can see how they adjust their grip upon their weapon, how they shift the weight in their stance, the look of concentration before a non-regged spell, the reaching for an arrow, the twisting of fingers, how they eye where they wish to strike you. As they act against you, the fool, they were already stopped. Before they can finish their attack you lash out and stop them cold with a terrible strike. Once per combat, you may turn the damage meant for you back upon your attacker.
Prerequisite: Brawler Profession (Primary) & Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Dead Men Are Poor Men: Due to a bloodhound's need to be paid for his bounty, he develops a sixth sense that helps him dodge unexpected blows so he can receive payment in the future. This gives a bloodhound the ability to evade full damage, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary)
DEFENSE - Evade

Deadly Cocktail: A thief adept or rogue with this skill can apply two doses of poison to a weapon at one time. These can be separate poisons, in which case they both affect the target individually, or two doses of the same toxin which cause double the effects and increase the save DC by +1.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary) or Rogue (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Deadly Poison: If your companion or familiar has a natural poison attack, then this skill can be used to force the target of poison to make two Endurance saves, and they must pass both in order to endure the effects of the animal's poison. This can be used once per combat.
(CC - Poisonous Skill, Amber Rank)

Deadly Precision: This allows a rogue to immediately reroll their Strike if they roll a Critical Failure of 1. This can only be used once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Rogue Profession (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Death From Above: Your skill at ranged combat is without peer. You can achieve things from a distance that would cast fear into any foe. This skill doubles the boosts to your Ranger profession. This is a constant effect skill.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Death Knell : You draw forth the ebbing life force of a creature and use it to fuel your own power. If a target is within 5 points of death, you may touch this creature and attempt to draw out it's final spark of life to give you 1d8 temporary hit points, and a +2 to your spell DC for the remainder of combat. The target is allowed a Willpower save against the mage's normal spell DC. If they pass their save, they merely take as much damage as the caster's Intelligence bonus. This may only be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Black Mage (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Deathless Transformation : A Black Mage gains the virtues of the undead. His body becomes partly mummified (though he is not truly undead), and he becomes immune to poison, and sleep effects. He still needs to breathe, eat, and sleep as normal for his type, and still ages as normal.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary), Ruby Rank

Death's Shroud : A Black Mage has the ability to cloak his true intentions with others, allowing his true alignment to become undetectable for up to 3 hours, once per day.
Prerequisite: Black Mage
(V - Magical Affinity)
FLAVOR

Deathwatch : Once per combat, you may channel the knowledge of your deity to determine information about any one target. This information tells you how enduring they are (hit points) as well as how close to death they are at that time. You may also use this to find out general statistics for the target (including their spread of trait points).
Prerequisite: Devout Class (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Decadence: A noble knows very well how debauchery and decadence can be common in the court, whether he embraces it or not, he has become resistant to it. A noble gains a +3 bonus on Endurance Saves against all negative effects of drugs, alcohol and ingested poison.
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Emerald Rank

Deceptive Dance: This is the culmination of both the swordmaster's fluid graceful steps as well as their precise and deadly flourish of weapon. They attack their target once per combat with such a graceful tenacity that the assault leaves their victim stunned and confused, losing as many turns of combat as allowed by rank as well as taking damage from the attack. A willpower save is given every round of DC10 + the swordmaster's Quickness.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary)
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Deceleration: Halve the speed of an incoming enemy, causing you to only take half damage from their attack, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Psion, Topaz Rank
DEFENSE - 1/2 Evade
(V - Psionic Affinity, Topaz Rank)

Decipher Languages: You've been around the world a few times, and while you can serenade someone in their native tongue you can't necessarily wrap your head around the writing on the wall. You'll have a good bash at it though! Your experiences grant you a +5 when trying to read languages you aren't already proficient with.
Prerequisite: Polyglot or Polylingual
FLAVOR

Deduction: The character has great powers of observation and can make an Insight check to make a deduction about a person after observing him for 1 minute. This deduction yields one of the following facts: target’s class and profession, target’s dice level, one trait level, one skill, or one non-obvious trait or talent.
Prerequisites: Incredible Insight Skill, Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Deep Denizen: You are a type of animal that has adapted to a subterranean environment very well, either because you are naturally from that type of environment or you and your owner spent much time there. This skill gives the animal companion a boost of +5 to Spot checks while underground, and boosts their Scent range while underground.
(CC - Scent, Subterranean type animal)
FLAVOR

Deep Draw : The heat of battle, you may draw your bowstring further, or crow hop while you throw your missile, etc. This grants you a roll of 1d more of your dice on your ranged attack, once per combat. (So if you are 2d, you roll 3d)
Prerequisite: Combat Class Only (Primary), Topaz Rank
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Deepened Vision: Your mental focus helps you see farther with darksight. You gain a range increase of 30 feet. You gain a +3 to any Spot or Search checks while using your Deepened Vision.
Prerequisite: Psion or Spellborn, Darksight Skill
(V - Psionic Affinity, Darksight Skill)
FLAVOR

Deepsight : This increases your range of sight for darksight to 120 feet.
Prerequisite: Darksight, Amber Rank
(CC - Darksight)

Defender of Nature: A druid has an all-encompassing disdain for creatures which pervert nature's order. Starting at Amber Rank, she may add an additional half of her Intelligence bonus to the damage against aberrations, oozes, and undead for one powerful attack, once per combat. This includes weapons, natural weapons, and any spells which might deal damage or require an attack roll.
Prerequisite: Druid, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V)

Defense Maneuver : The character goes into defensive mode for one round, where no attacks may be made and is able to add half their Quickness bonus to their Defense DC for that one round only.
Prerequisite: Combat Class (Primary), Light Armor or Unarmored only
DEFENSE

Defensive Disarm
When attacked and missed you may attempt to disarm the attacker once per combat. If you are attacked by an opponent using a melee weapon and the attack misses you may make an opposed Strength check once per combat to try and disarm the attacker. If you win, they are disarmed and will need to take a turn of combat to pick up their weapon.
Prerequisite: Disarm
COMBAT

Defensive Resurgence : On your turn, you heal yourself up to 10hp of damage. You may not make any attacks during this round, but you gain a boost to your Defense DC for the round you are healing of half of your Quickness Bonus added. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Knight (primary), Sapphire Rank

Defensive Roll: This skill allows a thief adept to roll with a potentially damaging blow so as to take less damage than she otherwise would. Once per combat, if more than 20 points of damage will be taken from a weapon or unarmed attack, she may attempt to roll with the damage by making an Acrobatics Check (DC = 1/2 damage dealt BEFORE use of armor, spell defenses, etc. For instance, if you are about to take 30 damage, it is DC15. Round up.) If the save succeeds you only take half damage. If it fails, you take full damage.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept, Acrobatics Skill
(V - Acrobatics Skill)
DEFENSE - Evade

Deflect Arrows: Once per combat, you may deflect a ranged weapon attack and take no damage from it. This can be done unarmed, as well as with a weapon in hand.
Prerequisite: Quickness Bonus +8
DEFENSE - Evade

Deflecting Shot: A knight or fighter can choose to shield one person, once per combat, by firing a projectile to impact with the weapon coming to harm the protected. The force of the impact knocks the weapon off it's path and no one takes damage. They must use a ranged weapon in combat to use this skill.
Prerequisites: Knight or Fighter, Uses Ranged weapon in Combat
DEFENSE - Evade
(V - Use ranged weapon)

Déjà Vu: Every so often, the gods of fate send you dreams about places and situations you will visit or experience in the future. Once per day you may add a +5 bonus to any one tactic or talent check, or saving throw. You may wait to decide to use the bonus until after you have rolled the dice, but must announce your intent to use the bonus before the DM announces whether or not the roll was successful. Alternately, instead of using the bonus yourself, you may grant the bonus to one of your companions. Your companion must be within hearing or vision range of you in order to receive the bonus.
Prerequisites: Cannot have Impious Flaw

Delay Affliction: Once per day, you may cause a target who has been poisoned, cursed or diseased to delay the affliction for as many hours as your Intelligence bonus. A delayed poison or disease does not begin it's effects until the time allotted has passed. It can be cured during that time, in that case the effects never show.
Prerequisites: Healer, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)

Delay Pain : You are able to delay the pain from wounds, even severe wounds, during combat until after combat ends. At that time all of the pain from every wound rushes upon you and if it is severe you may pass out.
FLAVOR
(CC)

Delay Potion : You may drink a potion and delay it's effects for up to 1 hour mun time. If this is used before combat, using the potion does not take up one's attack turn and can be used at will.
Prerequisite: Magical Affinity

Delay Spell : A spellcaster can use this skill to cast a spell, and delay it's effects for up to 15 minutes (mun) time or until combat begins, if it is an in-combat spell. If this is used before combat, invoking the spell does not take up one's attack turn, but only one delayed spell may be used per combat.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Demand Surrender : Once per combat, you can make an Intimidation check as your turn's action to demand surrender from an opponent who has been reduced to one-half or less of its hit points. If your check result equals or exceeds the targets opposed check, it surrenders to you and your allies, drops any weapons it is holding, and takes no hostile actions. If the target is higher dice than you, it gains a +5 bonus to its opposed roll. If you or any of your allies attack it, it no longer submits to your will and can act normally. This skill can be used against a particular target once per combat. This is a mind-affecting effect.
Prerequisite: Charisma Bonus of 5 or Higher
COMBAT

Demoralizing Stare: The bloodhound gains an additional bonus on Intimidate checks equal to half his Strength Bonus. In addition, when he successfully uses the Intimidate skill to demoralize an opponent, the target remains shaken for an additional 1 round.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Deny the Reaper: [Storyline] Escaping death strengthened your bond to life, making it a little more difficult to die another time. This skill allows you to remain alive even with negative hit points. You remain alive for as many hit points as you have Endurance trait points. So if you have 5 Endurance, you remain alive until -5 hit points.
Prerequisites: You must have died and been rezzed, gaining "Red Shirt" badge.
COMBAT

Desecration Zone : A Black Mage is continuously surrounded by an aura of negative energy, causing the area of 20 feet in radius to be considered desecrated. This gives the Black Mage a +2 to any Halt (I Said Stop skill) or Command Undead (I Said Come skill) rolls they make for undead in the zone.
Prerequisite: Black Mage, Command Undead Skill, Emerald Rank
(V - Magical Affinity, Command Undead Skill, Emerald Rank)

Desert Dweller: You are a type of animal that has adapted to a desert environment very well, either because you are naturally from that type of environment or you and your owner spent much time there. This skill gives the animal companion the ability to resist environmental heat dangers without need to make Endurance checks. You can also go without water for as many hours as 24 + your Endurance Bonus.
(CC - Hot environment animal)
FLAVOR

Desert Mining : Once a week, a desertfolk may roll 3d100 to see what three precious gemstones they've found or mined that week from the desert. Please see the gemstone chart to see what you have found, and send the roll as well as list of gemstones each week to our Treasury Moderator.
Prerequisite: Desertfolk
FLAVOR
(R)

Detect Alignment : You are able to detect the alignment of any creature you come in contact with, unless it is being magically hidden. If it is being hidden then roll a d20, creature rolls d20, if you roll higher you detect it.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Detect Magic: You have the ability to sense magical enchantments or spells on people or items within a range of 25 feet once per day. You can't identify the spell or enchantment unless you have Knowledge (Arcane) and pass the DM's DC. This skill doesn't work on illusions or spells designed to conceal, and won't reveal what's concealed or that anything is being hidden or masked.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Detect Spirits : A shaman knows when there are incorporeal creatures, astral creatures, ethereal creatures or fey within 60 feet of him. A shaman also knows roughly how many hit points such a creature holds (seek DM's aid).
Prerequisite: Shaman or Mystic, Emerald Rank
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Detect the Faithful: You are able to detect other worshipers of your particular deity, as long as they are not using a skill or item to magically hide this information.
Prerequisites: Devout Class
FLAVOR

Detect Trap : This skill gives a magical boost to the Thief's ability to detect traps. On a regular detect traps roll, if this skill is possessed, the Thief may choose to roll 1d5 and add the result to their attempt.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept
(V)

Devastation: Even in the chaos of a battlefield, there are moments when a fighter has a clear picture of what they must do. Once per combat the fighter may double his rank dice, making their one attack truly destructive.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Devil's Foe: Face 10 different demons or devils in combat and take damage or suffer some other sort of injury from five or more attacks made by each one without falling unconscious, fleeing, or otherwise becoming unable to strike back at them. This skill enables you to bypass any damage reduction that demons or devils might have.
Prerequisite: Proof
COMBAT

Dexterous Fighter : This fighting style values placement and quickness of the attack to do the most damage over raw power, and allows a combatant to use their quickness (QCK) instead of their strength (STR) for adding to damage. This is an innate skill.
COMBAT
(CC)

Diagnose : The Diagnose skill allows a healer to determine if a subject is afflicted with any diseases or internal injuries, and to check the general state of the subject’s health. You are able to detect any injuries, diseases, poisons, illnesses or other afflictions affecting the subject, as well as know how close to death they may be (hit points). This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Healing Affinity

Diehard : You have the ability to stay within combat longer than normal. You gain 5 extra hp. You may take this skill as many times as you desire. This is an innate skill.
(CC)
(R)

Dire Arrow : You may choose to hold your attack up to two rounds, building focus so that when you do choose to fire your arrow, it has much more force and power behind it. For every round that you hold your fire, you may add half your Quickness to the damage. If you hold your attack both rounds, you may then fire on the third round and add in double your Quickness Bonus.
Prerequisites: Ranger, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Dirty Fighter : You know the brutal and effective fighting tactics of the streets and back alleys. In brawls you get a +2 to your damage, and +1 to Strike. This is a constant effect.
COMBAT

Dirty Trickster : You can attempt to hinder a foe in some way, while making an attack. This skill covers any sort of situational attack that imposes a penalty on a foe for one round only. Examples include kicking sand into an opponent’s face to blind him for 1 round, pulling down an enemy’s pants to cause him to fall, or hitting a foe in a sensitive spot to make him sickened for a round. This allows creativity on your part, as to what you actually do, but the penalty is always a single round lose a turn in combat by being blinded, dazed, entangled, afraid, dazzled, deafened or sickened. DM/Proctor as always has final call on anything you may choose to do. You may use this once per combat
COMBAT

Disable Device : This gives a rogue a +5 to Rogue checks made to disable a device.
Prerequisites: Rogue (Primary)

Disabling Strike: Sometimes the goal of the hunt is not to kill, only to capture. You take this ideal and apply it into the field of combat, your blow putting your target down long enough for you to get away or close upon. Once per combat, your target is stunned and loses as many turns as allowed per rank. Willpower save vs the Ranger's DC10 + Quickness. Save allowed each round.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary)
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Disarm : Allows a successful melee strike to knock a weapon out of your opponent's hand instead of doing damage. It takes up a turn to pick it up if they want to continue using it. Once per combat.
COMBAT
(CC)

Disarm and Fling: Not only do you disarm your target with a passed Strike, but you are able to fling it as a ranged attack to a different target. Roll Strike, if you hit both with that Strike then you not only disarm your first target, but do ranged damage to your second target.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Disarm Skill, Sapphire Rank

Disarming Retrieval [Teamwork]
As your ally disarms a foe, you knock the disarmed item out of the way. If your ally disarms a foe (or otherwise removes an item from them), if the item lands within melee range you can move the disarmed item further away as a free action, causing the target to be unable to retrieve the item in one round; needing two instead. If you have at least one hand free and could carry the disarmed item, you can instead pick it up. When your ally fails to disarm an opponent within your reach, this teamwork skill allows you to try to disarm that same foe even if it is not your turn in combat. Roll an opposed Strength check, if you win, then you successfully disarm the opponent and they must take a round of combat to pick up that weapon.
Prerequisite: Disarm
COMBAT

Disarming Strike : When you make a critical hit upon an opponent, you not only damage them but you also disarm them. They must take a turn to reclaim their weapon before they are able to use that weapon again. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Disarm Skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(CC - Disarm, Sapphire Rank)

Discern Lie : The Mystic develops the ability to gauge whether another character is telling the truth by reading facial expressions and interpreting body language. The Mystic must be able to see and hear (but not necessarily understand) the individual under scrutiny. The Mystic gains a +5 to their roll to determine whether a spoken statement is true or false, with a successful Insight check opposed by the subject’s Bluff check.
Prerequisite: Mystic
(V)
FLAVOR

Discern Shapechanger : A Mystic is able to see through any disguises and shapechanges to see what the base creature is. If the creature is using magical means to hide this, then an opposed check will need to be rolled.
Prerequisite: Mystic
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
FLAVOR

Discovery Torch: An object you touch emanates a 20-foot radius of bright light. The effect looks like a regular flame but creates no heat and uses no oxygen. Allies within the area of this light gain a +2 bonus on Perception and Insight checks, as well as on Knowledge (Monster Lore) checks to identify monsters that are also within the area and their special powers and vulnerabilities. This light lasts 10 minutes per gemstone rank of the Priest.
Prerequisites: Priest, Sapphire Rank
(V-Magical Affinity, Sapphire Rank)
FLAVOR

Disguise Aptitude: You have a knack for mundane alterations to your appearance giving a +5 to Disguise checks.
FLAVOR

Disguise Self : Unlike a normal disguise, this will allow the Thief to use illusion magic to alter his or her appearance to that of another humanoid form. Disguised being can not weigh more than twice, or less than half of the individual attempting to use it. Add a Thief's charisma to the roll as a normal Disguise Check, and it will last 24 hours or until the Thief discards it. Can be dispelled by anything that dispels magic.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept AND Sapphire Rank
(V - Magical Affinity, Sapphire Rank)
FLAVOR

Dishonor's Bane: You can strike hard against anyone who attacks you in a cowardly fashion once per combat. If you are attacked dishonorably, you gain a counterattack against that attacker immediately. The opponent must, in the current encounter, have attempted a dishonorable action. Dishonorable actions include all ranged attacks, surprise attacks, ambushes, poison use, concealed magical attacks, or attempted an attack while you are stunned, helpless, or surprised. If you are currently stunned or held, you gain this counterattack as soon as it wears off.
Prerequisite: Knight or Paladin, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT
(V - Obsidian

Dismount Attack : You can jump out of the saddle onto an opponent without needing to roll any special checks. If your strike misses, you tumble out of the way and are able to attack from the ground on your next turn.
Prerequisites: Mounted Combat
COMBAT

Dissolving Breath : You may use your breath weapon to lower an enemy's defense bonuses for one round. If you make a successful strike with your breath weapon, then for one round your enemy loses all mundane defense bonuses. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: You must have a breath weapon and be Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Distract : You are one of the few warriors who can regularly throw enemies off-balance and reduce the effectiveness of their attacks. Through a combination of feints and diversions, you can keep an enemy on his toes and yet retain your own devastating attacks. This gives you a +3 to defense for the duration of the combat.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary)
DEFENSE

Distracted Shot: A thief adept with this skill knows how to take advantage of her opponents when they are distracted by her allies. When an opponent is engaged in melee with an ally, the thief adept can target that opponent with a ranged attack, treating him as though they have Defense DC (DDC) of 10. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept
COMBAT

Dive Attack : The Dive Attack skill allows a creature with natural wings the ability to swoop down in a diving attack and quickly fly away again, not permitting the target to perform any type of counterattack, or reflect. Evades, defense and such can still be used. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Race with Natural Wings, such as Windling, Faerie, Dragon
COMBAT
(CC - Have wings)
(R)

Divine Accuracy: You can channel positive energy to assist your allies melee hits to hit. For one round when this skill is used, all allies gain a +5 to Strike against undead or incorporeal creatures.
Prerequisites: Priest (Primary)
COMBAT

Divine Delving : Your keen magical intuition makes reading signs, portents, and mystical clues quick and easy. Work with the DM in order to find out what it is you may be seeing during a mission or adventure.
FLAVOR
(R)

Divine Grasp : The paladin has become so in tune with their deity that they can temporarily control the flow of magical energy, enabling him to negate any one spell (registered or not) against himself, once per combat.
Prerequisite : Paladin (Primary), Ruby Rank
DEFENSE - Evade

Divine Healing Surge : A paladin is more combative than a healer, but that does not remove their role of a support healer. Once per adventure, a paladin may heal everyone on the board at one time for 5 hit points each with positive healing magic.
Prerequisite: Paladin
(V - Healing Affinity)

Divine Health : You have been blessed by a deity with resistance to diseases, viruses and illness. They simply cannot get sick. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Priest, Paladin, Druid, Ranger, Monk only.
(V)

Divine Interference : When an enemy within 30 feet hits an ally with an attack, you can make the enemy re-roll the strike roll and take the second roll. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Devout (Primary)
COMBAT

Divine Retribution : Vindicators mete out divine judgement. If a Vindicator brings a target down to within 5 points of certain death, he may immediately make a second attack of his weapon damage only upon that SAME target. No strike needed.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Divine Ruination : As you make a ruinous strike against your opponent, a blast of divine energy hurtles from your blade hitting a second enemy that is within close range. The second opponent takes the same damage that you gave to the first. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary)
COMBAT

Divine Sacrifice : You may give up 5 or less hit points to grant an ally of your choice twice that amount in restored health, at any point in combat.
Prerequisite: Devout Class
(V)

Domestic Appearance : A werecreature can cause themselves to look like a domesticated version of themselves, allowing them to walk comfortably among humans and humanoids. This skill causes a werewolf's wolf form to look merely like a large dog, or a werecat to look like a housecat. True-seeing sees through this skill.
Prerequisites: Lycans
FLAVOR
(R)

Dominate Arrow : This skill allows a Ranger to control the flight path of a missile fired by another person. The ranger must be equal or higher dice than the person firing the missile, and the ranger must be able to see the missile during its flight. You may direct the object away from the intended target, or choose a new target for the missile including the firing person. This works with any ranged weapon, and may be used once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary)
COMBAT

Don Armor : You are adept at donning and removing armor in a very short period of time, allowing you to react quickly to enemies who attack camps and other places of rest or to remove your armor quickly when the need calls for it. If forced to do so in combat, it takes one round to don medium armor, and two rounds to don heavy armor. Removing medium armor in combat is a free action, removing heavy armor takes one round.
Prerequisite: Knight or Paladin
(V)
FLAVOR

Doomspeak: You can demoralize an enemy with horrible condemnations and grim portents of impending doom by uttering a string of crass and appalling epithets and curses at one enemy within 120 feet. The intended target must be able to hear and comprehend your damning remarks. A target that fails a Willpower save (DC 10 + your CHA bonus) is cursed with a -10 penalty on strike rolls, saves, checks, and damage for 1 round.
Prerequisites: Bard (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Double Attack: You've become such a fluid master of weaponry that you are capable of striking faster than any normal fighter, gaining a second roll of your weapon damage each time you attack. The limit is a total of 6d, so even if you own a 4d or higher weapon, the most you can roll is 6d. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Two Handed Weapon, Einhander, One-Handed Weapon, or Ranged Sniper, AND Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Double Tech : You may use two unarmed techs in combat. You may attack one opponent, or split your attack to hit two targets. For two targets, you would roll your combat dice and divide the damage by 2, and then 1 tech damage goes to one person, the second tech damage to the other. You may not use a weapon or invocation with this skill, only unarmed attacks with "techniques" you've purchased. This is an constant skill.
Prerequisite: Unarmed Only
COMBAT

Double Invocation : You may use two mage invocations in combat. You may attack one opponent, or split your attack to hit two targets. For two targets, you would roll your combat dice and divide the damage by 2 and then 1 invocation damage goes to one person, the second invocation damage to the other. You may not use a weapon with this skill, only non-regged magical attacks with mage invocations you've purchased. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Double Team: Your pet knows how to knock enemies off balance to give you an edge in battle. Once per combat, after your pet has successfully attacked and done damage to an enemy, you may make an immediate attack against the same target.
Prerequisites: Animal Companion or Familiar Skill, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Do You Know Your Enemy?: This skill allows you to commune with your deity to gain a +10 on Knowledge (Monster Lore) Checks even if you do not have the Knowledge skill.
Prerequisites: Paladin (Primary), Vindicator (Primary)
FLAVOR

Dragon Breath : A dragon is able to use their dragon breath throughout combat. This gives them 2d3 damage. No other weapon or attack can be used during the same round as dragonbreath, that is your attack and you must still pass ranged Strike. This is an innate skill.
    Some common dragons and their breath weapons:
    Black, Copper: Acid
    Blue, Bronze: Lightning
    Red, Gold: Fire
    White, Silver: Cold
Prerequisites: Dragon Racial
(R)

Dragon Heritage : You are descended from dragons, and are able to use a breath attack in any form. This gives you a one time 2d3 dmg in combat when your breath weapon is used.
Prerequisite: Dragon in your ancestry
COMBAT
(CC - dragon)
(R)

Dragonsight: Those with the blood of dragons see more than lesser men. With this skill, you gain a +5 to Insight checks concerning another person, as well as once per day, the ability to see a few things (Dice rank or class/professions or trait point allotment, based on your rank vs the target's) with just a glance. Work with the DM.
Requirement: Incredible Insight, Dragon, Half-Dragon or Dragonborn race.
FLAVOR
(R)

Drain Item : A spellborn can drain a charge from a magical item that holds charges, and uses that energy to heal themselves 5 points. A creature may make a save to prevent a charge being stolen by the spellborn, use the spellborn's rank DC save.
Prerequisites: Spellborn (Primary) AND Sapphire Rank

Draw of Life: By concentrating on a foe the healer makes a connection between their target and themselves. This link acts as the bridge in which the life force will flow from the targeted foe to the healer to be stored in reserve. Once per combat, the healer pulls the life energy out of a foe to restore all lost healing points the healer may have used, no strike needed.
Prerequisites: Healer (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Driving the Nail : This grants a brawler an extra 1d of their combat dice, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary) Only, Amber Rank
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Drunken Fighter - A brawler, fighter or monk takes no penalties to combat while they are drunk. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Brawler, Fighter or Monk Profession
(V)
FLAVOR

Dual-Wield : This skill allows you to dual wield two one-handed weapons with the same base trait bonus to gain damage to both. This means you can use two light melee weapons or two pistols but not one of each. (Example: If you have dual-wield, you may use two swords in combat which makes your weapon damage roll 1d6 & 1d6). This is an innate skill.
*Note: If you wish to target 2 people, then the Strike roll HAS to have beaten both targets Def. DC. You divide your damage in half, and add one weapon's damage to one and one weapon's damage to the other.

Dual-Wield Expert: You are an expert at hitting hard and powerful blows to your enemies. You may now double your damage trait to every attack you make. This replaces Dual Wield Focus on your dossier. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Dual-Wield Focus, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Dual-Wield Focus: You have become a master of using dual one-handed weapons or techs, and your strikes hit with more damage, allowing you to add in half your damage trait bonus to every attack you make. This is an constant skill.
Prerequisites: Dual-Wield Skill
COMBAT

Duck and Cover: Once per adventure, you may take a nearby ally's Acrobatics roll instead of your own.
(CC)

Dungeon Sense : Through experience you’ve developed an intense familiarity with the design and construction of dungeons and can correctly predict the layout of corridors and chambers you have not yet visited. To use this ability you must make a Knowledge (Dungeoneering) check. The total result – times two – equals the radius in feet that you may sketch out as a map that properly reflects the dungeon terrain. You do not know where secret doors, or hidden traps are located. This does not apply to natural caverns or tunnels.
Prerequisite: Knowledge (Dungeoneering) Skill

Durability : A Swordmaster may invoke his durability at any time in combat, gaining temporary 5 hit points that lasts until the end of the combat. If, at the end of combat and hit points revert to normal and he is past his hit point limit, he will die.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster
COMBAT
(V)

Dwarvencraft : A dwarf that takes dwarvencraft has essentially the skill "Artisan Crafting", but starts with armorsmithing, weaponsmithing and stonecraft when you take this skill. For each gemstone rank you gain after this, you may choose one more artisan crafting type.
Prerequisite: Dwarf
(R)

Eagle Eye: A ranged combatant's senses have developed so keenly that he is now able to use point blank shot benefits at a distance.
Prerequisites: Point Blank Shot
COMBAT

Early Judgment: Depending on the creature's alignment, you can provide it a brief glimpse of the reward or punishment that waits for it when it dies by showing it a mental image of its destined plane in the afterlife. The target is given a Willpower Save vs DC10 + Your Intelligence. If the target is good-aligned, it is fascinated for one round on a failed save. If the target is neutral-aligned, it is confused for one round on a failed save. If the target is evil-aligned, it is shaken for one rounds on a failed save. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Ear to the Ground : By lying down and placing your ear to the ground you are able to identify the location and distance of creatures in contact with the ground for a range of 30 feet.
FLAVOR

Earth Bond : You must be standing on natural ground or an earthen or stone surface to use this skill. This allows an obsidiman to heal himself up to 10hp, using this bond with the earth, once per combat. You cannot make any attacks or counterattacks during the round you are healing. This skill can also be used outside of combat to nourish the surrounding land, making the land especially fertile for a year and a day.
Prerequisite: Obsidiman
(R)

Earth Power: As long as you are standing on stone or unworked earth (including normal soil), you can pull psychic energy from the earth. Once per combat, when you would otherwise be knocked prone or fallen such as by a Critical Fail, you are able to remain standing and do not take the loss of a turn or detrimental effects that you would gain by falling.
Prerequisite: Psion, Amber Rank
(V - Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank)

Ease of Faith : This gives you a +2 Diplomacy. Your mentor, the person who invested your faith in you from an early age, took steps to ensure that you understood that what powers your divine magic is no different than that which powers the magic of other religions. This philosophy makes it easier for you to interact with others who may not share your views.
Prerequisite: Paladin
(V)
FLAVOR

Easy Reload : You have specialized in hand-held gunpowder weapons, allowing you to load and fire one gun on the same round as your attack. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: For gunpowder weapons only
COMBAT

Easy to Flimflam: Once per adventure, this skill allows the thief adept to roll twice while making a Bluff check, and can take the better result. You must choose to use this before you make your Bluff Check roll.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept
(V)
FLAVOR

Echo Spell : You may, once per adventure, cast the exact same spell a second time on the round immediately following the last casting of your spell.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class, Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Ecstasy : The gestures of the charmer, along with his erotic incantations causes the person to go into an enjoyable, screaming, orgasmic, erotic fit. The term person includes any bipedal human, demihuman, or humanoid of giant-size or smaller, such as dwarves, elves, gnolls, halflings, kobolds, and others. The person receives a Willpower save vs the Charmer's Charisma roll. If the person fails the saving throw, he/she loses all Quickness bonus to Defense DC, causing them to have a DC10 for one round of combat.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Topaz Rank, Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Einhander: You have chosen to use a one-handed weapon, with nothing in your off hand. If you are fighting with a one-handed weapon or a light weapon and carrying nothing in your off hand, the Einhander skill grants you access to three special tactics, you may choose ONE of these three tactics to use once per combat (or as stated, since if you choose Narrow Profile it has unlimited use).
Prerequisites: You must only use a one-handed or light weapon, and have nothing in your off-hand including shields. Buckler is acceptable since it leaves your hand open.
COMBAT

Narrow Profile: You can tuck your arm behind your back and offer a narrow profile when you concentrate on defense rather than offense. You gain an additional +2 bonus to your Defense DC if you choose to defend yourself (or others) during a round of combat. You cannot make any attacks this round, but you may defend yourself including evades, reflects, and other defensive moves. There is no limit on how many rounds you may use this tactic as long as you are not making any attacks.

Off-Hand Balance: You use your off hand to balance yourself while fighting. After you successfully strike an opponent, you may evade any attacks from that opponent for one round of combat. When you flip and roll out of harm's way, you use one hand to keep your balance and your other hand to keep your weapon trained on your foe.

Off-Hand Swap: With a flourish, you flip your weapon into the air, catch it in your off hand, and continue to press the attack. When you use this tactic, you gain an extra 1d to your weapon dice, so for instance a sword that does 1d6, will now do 2d6 damage.

Eldritch Focus: This skill allows a spellcaster to double their magic trait bonus for damage when casting an attack-based spell of any sort, including unregged, regged, wands and 'vocations. If your spell does damage then you may add in 1/2 of your damage trait to every attack you make. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Eldritch Master: This skill allows a spellcaster to double their magic trait bonus for damage when casting an attack-based spell in combat. If your spell does damage then you may double your trait bonus for damage every time you cast an attack spell in combat. This is the Class version of Eldritch Focus and replaces that skill on your dossier list. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Arcane or Devout Class Only, Eldritch Focus, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Electrical Affinity: Electrical attacks heal half the damage instead of harming at all, so for instance an electrical attack of 20dmg would heal 10hp. They are immune to Electrical damage. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Mechanatrix Racial
(R)

Elemental Affinity : Once per combat, an elemental may infuse their attack with the element they are born with, giving them 1d over their current dice for one attack. (So a 2d would use 3d).
Prerequisites: Elemental Race Only
COMBAT - Extra 1d
(CC - Elemental type creature, Combatant Profession)
(R)

Elemental Co-Mixture [Teamwork]
You can combine your elemental spells with those of your allies to produce entirely new and synergistic magical effects. You and an ally within 30 feet who shares this skill can cast your regged spells together to create a more powerful, hybrid effect. Both spells must have an elemental descriptor (air, earth, fire, shadow or water), or an energy descriptor that corresponds to one of the elements (acid [earth], cold [water], electricity [air], or fire [fire]). The primary caster's regged spell is considered the primary spell, and that is the spell that the opponent must save against. If they fail, then both spells take effect. For instance, you could combine a spell that does Fire DMG + a spell that uses smoke for a Hold. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Elemental Focus : A Mystic may choose one element each time this skill is taken, and any time they cast an elemental spell using this element, they gain an extra 1d5 damage for their attack. Choose from: Fire, Cold/Ice, Electricity, Air/Wind, Earth, Sonic, or Water.
Prerequisite: Mystic
COMBAT
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Elemental Immunity : You may take this skill to become immune to one of the following elements: fire, cold, wind, sonic, earth, lightning, water. You may not take this skill to become immune to a weakness of any sort, including flaws. You may only take this skill ONCE.This is an innate skill.
This skill takes TWO SKILL SLOTS.
(CC - Takes two skill slots)
(R)

Elemental Inspiration : You can channel the power of the elements into the attacks of your allies, causing their weapons or unarmed attacks to claim an elemental boost as long as the bard continues to perform. You must choose which one element you wish to use for this skill when the skill is taken. For instance, if you choose fire, you may boost your allies (# of allies boosted per chart below) causing all their weapons to become fiery; or choose ice and weapons become coated in ice, etc. There is no boost to damage or dice, unless the target is weak to whatever element is chosen.
Prerequisites: Bard (Primary)

Crystal and Topaz: [2 PCs]
Amber: [3 PCs]
Sapphire: [4 PCs]
Emerald and Ruby: [5 PC's]
Obsidian: [6 PCs]

Elemental Resistance : Pick one element to take +5 defense against. You may take this more than once, for different elements. Elements you may choose are fire, water, earth, air, lightning, shadow, prismatic. This is a constant skill.
DEFENSE
(CC)
(R)

Elemental Signature: You may choose one elemental attack that allows you an extra 1d once per combat.
Prerequisites: Arkai Racial
COMBAT
(R)

Eloquent Bargainer : Getting permission to enter treasure-laden ruins sometimes requires talking to the right people and handing around a few coins for bribes, “finder’s fees,” and so on. This skill allows you to know which palms to grease and what promises to make, gaining a +5 to Diplomacy Checks when you offer an appropriate bribe (minimum 10gp).
Prerequisite: Noble or Bard, Sapphire Rank
(V - Sapphire Rank)
FLAVOR

Elusive Dance : Your training in dance allows you to mirror and anticipate an opponent's moves, granting you +3 mundane defense throughout the combat. At Emerald, it improves to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6 DEF. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Noble
DEFENSE
(V)

Elven Accuracy : Your sharp eyesight makes difficult shots easier. If you miss when making a ranged attack with a longbow or shortbow (including composite bows), you can reroll once per combat to see if you actually hit.
Prerequisite: Elven, Half-Elven or Feykin
COMBAT
(R)

Elven Beauty : Your elven heritage has made you beautiful to gaze upon. The kind of beauty that woos those around you, starts wars, and has songs written about them. This gives you a +10 to Diplomacy.
Prerequisite: Elven, Half-Elven or Feykin
(R)

Emblazon Crest: Any tabbard or tunic worn and any shield carried by the paladin can be made to display a coat of arms when the skill is used. For example, even if the subject picks up a different shield, it still displays the subject's crest, regardless of the shield's normal appearance.
Prerequisites: Paladin
(V - Magical Affinity)
FLAVOR

Empathic Transfer: A psion is able to take the wounds of an ally onto themselves, healing the ally. They now have the ally's wounds, though, and will need to find their own healing. This can be done as often as a psion wishes.
Prerequisites: Psion, Sapphire Rank
(V- Psionic Affinity, Sapphire Rank)

Empathic Pain: With a touch, you can transfer your wounds to a target, causing them to take the damage from you, and healing you of that damage. You must pass melee Strike to touch them, and they may use magical defense against the attack.
Prerequisites: Psion, Emerald Rank
(V - Psionic Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Empathy : You are able to feel the emotions of anyone in your general area. You cannot alter their emotions with this gift but you are able to "know" what is wrong. Players can roll 1d6 to determine the "strength" at which they understand the targets emotion.
Prerequisite: Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

1 - 3 = Insight. You know "something" is wrong or something is up.
4 - 5 = You know what is wrong or what is up, down to the exact detail.
6 = Shared Emotion. You know and feel everything the target does, as it were happening to you.

Empowered Innate Spell : You are able to cast your one innate spell without asking for a save from the target or targets. Once per week, your innate spell simply works. You must use the same spell that you've chosen for your Innate Spell skill, and it cannot be changed once it has been decided.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Enchantment Resistance : You gain +2 to your save against any enchantment or mind-affecting effects or spells.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class, Bard, Swordmaster or Charmer
(V)

Encryption: You possess the full understanding and workings of a secret code or script, enabling you to recreate any text and ensure the result is near impossible to understand. Any encrypted text you write is given a DC10 + your Intelligence bonus for others to break its code.
Prerequisite: Rogue, Thief Adept, Bard
FLAVOR
(V)

Endure Blow: Your animal companion is able to resist bludgeoning attacks made against them, allowing them to take half damage from one bludgeoning attack, once per combat.
COMBAT
(CC - Amber Rank)

Enfeebling Strike: Once per combat, if you successfully attack a target, you cause them to take a -2 to Quickness for the remainder of combat.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary), Priest (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Engaging Banter : A Swordmaster is able to use his charming style and a touch of magical suggestion to distract a character. The Swordmaster must be able to be understood by the target character for the banter to work. An opposed check is made against the Swordmaster's 1d20 + Charisma Bonus v.s Target's 1d20 + Willpower. If the Swordmaster wins, both he and the character spend time engaged in witty, idle chat even in the midst of combat around them. The Swordmaster must concentrate on the conversation, and cannot make any other actions during this time or the effect stops. This lasts for as many rounds as the Swordmaster wishes to engage simply in conversation, or until the target is attacked. While engaged in banter, their Defense DC is lowered by 2 points as they are stable and unmoving and totally at ease with the Swordmaster.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

En Garde!: You are amazing at dueling with your foes. Once per combat, if you pass your strike against a target, you may either deny them a counterattack, or they are forced to drop whatever is in their hands - be it weapon, wand, or other item. You still make a normal attack and they take damage. Choose one (no counter or drop item), and this can only be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler or Swordmaster, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - Sapphire Rank)

Engineering Knack: You have a knack for innovation in your craftsmanship, and are considered the most technologically advanced crafter in the community. This skill allows you to craft engineering feats and marvels of science with schematics. See our crafting rules for more information.
Prerequisite: Alchemy

Enraged Casting : Once per combat, you can channel your magical energies to cast a more powerful spell. You may add a +2 to the DC of your saving throw. For instance, if you are an Amber rank and have a natural 15, you'd claim this skill and it would become a 17 that your opponent would have to roll to save.
Prerequisite: Mage, Black Mage, Psion or Spellborn
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Ensemble: Nearby performers can aid your own performance by singing, dancing, playing an instrument, etc. When you are aided by an ally (or allies) in your performance, you may double the payment you roll for tips.
Prerequisites: Performance Skill
FLAVOR

Entangling Spell: A spell that you cast successfully also entangles the target for one round. If your attack is on multiple foes, choose one foe to entangle.
Prerequisites: Mage
COMBAT - Lose Turn (One Round)
(V - Magical Affinity)

Entitlement : A Noble is able to browbeat or sweet-talk a shopkeeper until he or she gets a discount of 15% (when buying) or a bonus of 15% (when selling) from the Emporium. This does not stack with Fence, Bargainer, or any other skill that allows you to get a discount from the Emporium.
Prerequisite: Noble, Sapphire Rank.
(V - Sapphire Rank)

Entrepreneur : You have an entrepreneurial spirit and wish to join the ranks of the business men and women of the world. This skill enables you to open a business, such as a tavern, inn, market, etc. At the end of each week, roll a d250 to determine how much gold you've made that week. The number of dice you roll depends on your gemstone rank. So, a Crystal would roll 1d250, Topaz 2d250, Amber 3d250, etc. There are also ways to upgrade your businesses, which allows you to make more gold and earn more CP if you are a crafter!
FLAVOR

Epic Power : You have truly come far, trained your body and mind to their limits and now are able to claim even more power than ever thought possible. You gain 4d dice and may choose 3 more skills. You must have Aura of Strength to take this skill, and this skill replaces AoS on your dossier when your quest is complete. This is an innate skill. Note: This skill costs 200 xp when the quest is completed, which means you will lose that xp.
Prerequisites & Costs: Aura of Strength (replaced), Obsidian Master Rank, 200 XP, 35 Reputation, Special Quest by TesarikOne, Missions Mod or Senior DM

Equipment Tricks: You must choose a piece of equipment (sunrod, cloak, shield, blade scabbard, rope), and you become proficient in a trick with that equipment. When you take this skill, choose 1) your piece of equipment, and then 2) pick which trick you wish with that equipment. Make sure you meet the prerequisites for the trick you choose. At Topaz, you may choose a FLAVOR trick, at Amber you may choose a second trick (either with the same piece of equipment or a new one). At Sapphire another FLAVOR trick, at Emerald a third trick, at Ruby another FLAVOR trick, and at Obsidian a fourth. So by Obsidian you should have FOUR tricks, and THREE Flavor tricks.

Blade Scabbard Tricks:

Capture Weapon: When you successfully disarm an opponent, you may flip that weapon (or other item such as a wand) into your scabbard as long as it would actually fit there.
Prerequisite: Disarm

Find the Hidden: You can use your scabbard to probe for hidden dangers. You may sweep your scabbard through an area where you suspect there is an invisible creature; while attacking with a one handed weapon. If your Strike hits, you may attack that target without any penalties for it being hidden or invisible. All other attacks you make against that creature do not gain this benefit (though you can sweep again on your next turn).
Prerequisite: Blindfight

Scabbard Grab: You can use your scabbard to halt a fall, keep from being dragged or stop other sorts of involuntary movement by grabbing your scabbard with a free hand, jamming it into a hard surface, and clinging to it. This can be used as often as you like outside of combat, but once per combat.
FLAVOR

Hurl Scabbard: You may draw your weapon in such a way that you hurl your scabbard whirling off to strike a targeted creature with an extra 1d5 damage. This is treated as a ranged attack, you may still make your normal attack along with the hurled scabbard. This can only be done once per combat, your first attack when you draw your blade.

Tangle Leg: You may draw your weapon in such a way that it hurls your scabbard against an opponent's legs and trips them. They must make an Acrobatics DC15 to avoid being tripped, if they fail they lose a turn in combat. Can be used once per combat.

Shield Tricks:

Break Ground: In place of a melee attack, you can throw your shield at an opponent’s feet, interfering with his movement and tripping him. You must be holding (not wearing) your shield or using a throwing shield to use this trick. If your target fails an Acrobatics check of DC15, they lose a turn from being tripped. Once per combat.

Little Wall: You may contort your body behind your shield in such a way that you gain complete cover for one round. You add your shield bonus to your Defense DC that round, but you cannot make any other actions that round except hide behind the shield. You may do this as often as you like in combat, but you cannot make any other actions.. You are essentially hiding behind your shield and doing nothing else.

Keen Eye: You have mastered the art of using the reflective surface of your shield to locate foes that you dare not look at directly, such as those with gaze attacks. This allows you to attack such creatures without any penalty or fear of being countered with any gaze attacks. This can be used at will.
FLAVOR

Ricochet Shield: When you throw a shield, you can bounce it off one or more hard surfaces in order to strike a target from an unexpected angle or to bypass an obstacle such as cover. Each object you ricochet your shield off of imposes a –2 penalty on the Strike roll.
Prerequisite: Shield Weapon

Shield Gag: You can force your shield into the mouth of a large creature to prevent it from using bite attacks or other mouth-based abilities. If you succeed on a Strike, you may choose to wedge your shield into a creatures mouth as you hold it, keeping it from making any attacks with the mouth. You may choose to release your shield at any time, leaving it wedged in the creatures mouth until it breaks it, spits it out, or swallows it.

Rope Tricks

Knotted Weapon: You can use a knotted length of rope as a two-handed weapon (much like a spiked chain) that inflicts bludgeoning damage of 2d4.
FLAVOR

Lash: You can use a length of rope as a whip 1d3 (nonlethal). The piece of rope that is used as a whip must be 10 feet long—length in excess of this must remain coiled or otherwise unused at your feet or side.
FLAVOR

Lifeline: When you or a nearby creature is falling (from a failed Climb check or otherwise), you can throw a held rope , maintaining a grip on one end. If you are falling, this is treated as an attempt to catch yourself while falling made with a +5 bonus, but there must be some sort of solid anchor available for your rope to loop around. When attempting this check on another creature, treat it as if you yourself were falling. If the weight of the creature is too much (per DM), you are pulled after it.

Quick Release: You can secure a rope such that you can loose it from either end by making a quick series of tugs (a move action) at any point along the rope’s length.
FLAVOR

Slip Away: You gain an additional bonus of +5 on Escape checks to escape from ropes and ropelike restraints (such as vines).
Prerequisite: Escape Artist

Tangle: You can throw a coiled length of rope as a ranged weapon. If you hit with a ranged strike, the target becomes entangled for one round. It can cut or burst the rope, or escape with a DC15 Escape check. The rope must be unsecured to use this trick.

Sunrod Tricks

Flare: You may expend the remaining life of a sunrod (lit or unlit) in an instant. Sighted creatures within a 20-foot-radius burst of the sunrod must succeed at a DC15 Endurance save or be dazzled for one round. Creatures with light sensitivity or light blindness receive a –2 penalty on their saving throws. Alternatively, you can strike a creature with the sunrod (must pass Strike) or throw the sunrod as a ranged attack with a range increment of 10 feet. When it strikes a hard surface, it flares as described above. If you strike a creature with the sunrod and they fail their Endurance save, they are blinded for the round of combat as well as dazzled.

Fast Sunrod: You can draw and light an easily accessible sunrod from a pack as a swift action without it taking up a turn of combat.
FLAVOR

Like the Sun: You can use a sunrod as an additional material component for any spell that bears the light descriptor. The spell gains a +2 to it's spell save DC.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity

Lodge Sunrod: You can throw your sunrod as a ranged improvised weapon. If you hit with a ranged attack, the sunrod does no damage, but stays lodged on the target until the target or another creature spends a round to remove it. This is great for creatures hiding in darkness, so that everyone else on your team can see where they are!
FLAVOR

Lure: While holding a lit sunrod in your hand, you can attempt to move a natural animal in any direction you desire. Make an Animal Affinity check with DC15. If you are successful, the animal moves 5 feet in the desired direction on its next turn. For every 5 points by which your check exceeds the DC, the animal moves another 5 feet, up to the animal’s maximum speed (ask DM). If the animal is attacked during this time, the animal immediately stops moving (whether or not the attack hits). You cannot move an animal into an obvious hazard with this trick, but you can (for example) lure it into an open cage.
Prerequisites: Animal Affinity

Twice as Brightly: As a full-round action, you can tamper with an unused sunrod such that it burns out in a single hour, but shines much more brightly. It sheds bright light in a 30-foot radius and increases the light level by two steps for an additional 30 feet beyond that area (darkness becomes normal light, and dim light or normal light becomes bright light). It does not increase the light level in bright light.
FLAVOR

Cloak Tricks

Glide: By gripping the edges of your cloak, you are able to glide for short distances or slow your fall from heights.
FLAVOR

Cloak Defense: You are able to use your cloak to make it more difficult for your foes to hit you. If you have a free hand, you can hold it before your chest like a curtain, making it difficult for enemies to read what you are planning to do next. Your cloak grants you a +1 bonus to your DDC for one round. If you are in total defense mode that round (making no attacks of any sort), your cloak's shield bonus improves to +2.

Cloaked Strike: You can use your cloak to hide a light weapon. To utilize this, on the first round you must move adjacent to an opponent while you do not have a weapon in either hand. On the second round, you make a Bluff check opposed by your foe's Insight check as you draw your weapon. If this check succeeds, your opponent loses his Quickness bonus to DDC until the end of your turn that round.
Whirling Cloak: You can attempt to use your cloak to confuse your opponent. Any round after successfully striking an opponent in melee, you make a melee strike roll against that foe. If your Strike hits, you whirl your cloak around him, temporarily ruining his defenses for one round of combat.

Escape Artist : You are skilled at getting out of whatever binds that they might find themselves in, this gives you a +3 to Escape checks. This also allows someone with this skill to make an Escape check during a grapple instead of a Strength check for the opposed roll.
(CC)

Escape the Cage: A properly trained Bloodhound knows to be wary around a Spell-casting Mark. At Amber, you gain +1 to Saves Against your Mark's Spells, at Sapphire a +2, and at Obsidian +3, and at Diamond +4.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound (Primary), Witch-Hunt Skill

Esoteric Erotica : The charmer has taken a special interest in the sexual proclivities of the more ... peculiar denizens of the fantasy world. Forbidden texts have been studied and the mothers of planetouched children have been spoken to. Thanks to this the seducer has an unrivaled understanding of the anatomy and tastes of the beings from other planes and the non-humanoid sentient beings. This gives a +5 to all Knowledge Checks involving extraplanar creatures.
Prerequisite: Charmer only.
(V)
FLAVOR

Ethereal Weapon : Allows the character's weapon to become incorporeal, passing through physical objects such as armor, turning solid as soon as it strikes a living (or undead, etc) target. Bypasses all armor-based defense entirely for one attack, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Etiquette: You can use your knowledge of proper manners to smooth over social blunders.You may attempt to smooth over bad feelings from a social faux pas and/or vulgar breach of etiquette, committed either by you, your compatriots, or someone for whom you are sympathetic. You cannot undo the mistake, but you can erase the social stigma from whoever committed the error and thereby avoiding the consequences of such a gaffe. You can use your Etiquette a number of times per day equal to your Charisma trait.
For instance, if Lady Donna inadvertently insulted Baron Esquival by mistaking him for the stable boy, you can step in to cool rising tempers or tarnished pride by quoting maxims from Count Edvard Torenson’s The Nobility of the Steed and its Admirers, a classic volume expounding on the important relationship between a master horseman and his staff (not to mention his horse). Hence, you can convince them that there is no shame in such a mistaken identity—as long as it doesn’t occur again.
Prerequisites: CHA 6
FLAVOR

Evaluate Item : This allows the Thief to take a look at an item and determine its value. A d20 Appraise Check plus your Perception Bonus is rolled, with the following results.
1: No information.
2-11: Can determine the value of the item within 1000 gold.
12-16: Can determine the value of the item to within 100 gold.
17-19: Can determine the value of the item to within 50 gold.
20: Determines the exact value of the item.
Can be useful in circumstances where it would help to know the value of an item (ie: negotiations with other player characters or NPCs. If taken and stated in a selling transaction with the emporium, will give a 10% bonus to gold received. This stacks with the Fence skill.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept, Noble OR Rogue AND Sapphire Rank
(V - Sapphire Rank)
FLAVOR

Everybody Move : Once per combat, you may take up your turn to allow every ally to move and change positions.
Prerequisite: Combat Class
COMBAT
(V)
FLAVOR

Even Thicker Skin: This skill boosts your animal companion or familiar's natural defense to +10 DEF. You must abide by the max defense rules of armor, if your companion does not wear armor the max defense is +20 DEF. Light, Medium and Heavy armor have their own rules, please see the Armor section. This is a constant skill.
(CC - Thick-Skinned)

Evil Brand : The character is physically marked forever as a servant of an evil power greater than herself or as a villain who does not care who knows that she seeks only death, destruction, and misery for others. The symbol is unquestionable in its perversity, depicting a depravity so unthinkable that all who see it know beyond a doubt that the bearer is forever in the sway of the blackest powers. Evil creatures automatically recognize the symbol now emblazoned upon the character as a sign of her utter depravity or discipleship to a powerful patron, although the specific identity of the patron is not revealed. She gains a +2 bonus on Diplomacy, Insight and Intimidate checks made against evil creatures.
FLAVOR

Evil Eye: Once per adventure, when an enemy makes a successful save, you may force them to re-roll their save. This can be used at any time, even if it is another ally that is seeking the save from the enemy.
Prerequisites: Shaman (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Exceptional Breeding: The noble is of such exceptionally fine birth that he maintains superiority and grace at all times. He is gifted with the ability to negate fumbles in any of his skills (even to Strike, although the roll will still fail). The character can fail at a task but will never look ridiculous doing so. Thus even the worst rolls will not look horrible to observers. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisites: Noble
FLAVOR

Excuse Me, Pardon Me: Due to their way with people, charismatic persons can sometimes talk others into letting them head the charge. This skill allows a person to add their Charisma (CHA) bonus to their initiative checks in addition to anything else, such as Quickness (QCK) and Lightning Initiative.
Prerequisites: CHA 8
FLAVOR

Executioner's Shot : As your enemy charges towards you, you calmly prepare to put him down right when you know you won’t miss. This skill allows you to double your damage bonus trait for each ranged attack you make in combat. This replaces Ranged Sniper skill on your dossier when you take it. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Ranged Sniper Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Exorcism : A cleric is able to cleanse a creature or object of possession. The cleric and the creature/DM roll 1d20 twice in a row, and if the cleric rolls higher both times then they are cleansed. Creative roleplay is essential between rolls.
Prerequisite: Priest Only
FLAVOR

Expensive Clothing: The noble radiates the air of nobility, People feel very comfortable with his presence. They are more likely to invite him to exclusive places, treat her with respect, and regard him ‘first amongst equals’.You wear the most fashionable and well-fitting clothing, gaining the favor of those around you. This gives you a +1 to all Social based skills such as Diplomacy, Bluff, etc.
Prequisites: Noble, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Exploit Lore: Once per combat, after successfully identifying abilities and weaknesses of a creature using a Knowledge (Monster Lore) check of at least DC20, you gain a +1 bonus on strike and damage against that creature for 1 round. If you score DC30 or above, you gain a +2 bonus on strike and damage for 1 round. If you identify the abilities and weaknesses of numerous creatures, you must pick one creature to be the target of this effect.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (Monster Lore)

Extension of Self : The fighter has spent their entire life training for that one moment. They suffered so many hardships to learn that valuable lesson. The knowledge to know when to strike. Their weapon becoming a piece of their own body. Driving it forth with thunderous effect. Once per combat rolling their combat dice twice.
Prerequisite: Fighter (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Extra Commands: Your companion may learn two extra essential commands per gemstone rank.
Prerequisite: Any Companion or Familiar Skill
(CC)

Extra Companion: This skill allows you to have a second animal companion, though it is not near as powerful as your main companion. Your animal starts at Topaz Journeyman. When you reach Emerald, your companion is now Amber Adept. At Ruby, your companion is now Sapphire Adept. At Obsidian, your companion is now Emerald Adept. At Diamond, your companion is now Ruby Shield. You cannot use more than ONE companion or familiar at a time in combat, so while you may bring both your companions on missions and quests, only one can be on the scoreboard during any given combat or encounter.
Prerequisite: Sapphire Rank, Any Animal Companion or Familiar Skill

Extra Rings : Your familiarity with forging magic rings allows you to make use of more rings than normal. If you are a crafter of magical rings, then you may wear one extra ring for a total of three magical rings. If you are an Arcane (Primary) crafter of magical rings, you can wear two on each hand for a total of four magical rings, and all function normally.
Prerequisite: Craft Magic Item: Magical Jewelry, Emerald Rank

Extra Spell : A spellcaster is granted an extra spell for each gemstone rank they gain. Such as moving from Crystal to Topaz you get an extra spell. Topaz to Amber you get an extra spell.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class (Primary) Only
FLAVOR

Extremely Thick Skull: Your headbutt is delivered good and hard, don't mind the headaches! You can choose to increase the damage of your one-time headbutt unarmed attack by 2d5, 3d5 or even 4d5. If you increase it to 2d5, you take 1d5 undefendable damage to yourself. If you increase it to 3d5 you take 2d5 undefendable damage to yourself. If you choose to increase it to 4d5, you take 3d5 undefendable damage to yourself. You may only use your headbutt once per combat, either with it's normal damage (1d5) or increasing it's damage using this skill.
Prerequisites: Thick Skull, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Eyes of the Raptor : The creature can see for miles, as if the distance were a mere twenty yards. While the creature is in the sky or perched in a high lofted vantage point such as a tower or the top of a tree, they can see for as many miles as per their gemstone rank, so Crystal can see 1 mile, Topaz 2 miles, etc.
Prerequisite: Any type of Bird race or naturally flying race
FLAVOR
(CC - Bird or flying creature)
(R)

Eyes of the Storm: A druid with this skill can see through 10 feet of magical fog, mist, gas, wind, rain, or similar inclement weather conditions, ignoring any concealment it might grant. This distance increases by 5 feet for each gemstone level the druid earns.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary)
FLAVOR

[Head Moderator]

Fae Flicker: Your natural glow grows to a harsh glare, dazzling your enemies for one round, while you slip away unnoticed. This allows a faery to remove themselves completely from combat and escape. You may not enter the same combat again after using this skill.
Prerequisites: Faery Racial
(R)

Faithful Feedback : A shared religious fervor makes your healing magic more effective. Whenever you heal someone with your healing points, you always heal them an extra +2 points that does not come out of your healing points, it is completely extra. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Paladin, Amber Rank
(V - Healing Affinity, Amber Rank)

Faith Healing : A Vindicator is not only able to heal himself of injuries, but he also gains the power to cure himself of disease or illness (mundane or magical) at will, regrow lost limbs if needed, and even cure himself of blindness or deafness.
Prerequisite: Vindicator, Self-Healing
(V - Self-Healing)

Falling Star Strike : You have mastered the art of striking a nerve that blinds a humanoid opponent. If your attack is successful, your target must pass an Endurance check of DC10 + 1 for each gemstone rank, or be blinded for one round of combat. They may not make any moves for that round unless they have Blindfight. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Monk, Amber Rank.
COMBAT
(V - Amber Rank)

False Hits: So tough and so frightening is a Brawler's demeanor, it is often difficult to tell if an attack hits or misses a brawler. This skill allows for the brawler to force an opponent to re-roll a successful strike once a day. The second roll will always be taken over the first.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

False Shackles : This skill enables those who have successfully made an Escape check, but wish to keep that a secret. The character arranges his shackles (or whatever binds him) so that they appear to be in place, and mimics the stance and movements of a bound prisoner.
Prerequisite: Rogue, Swashbuckler or Thief Adept, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Familiar : You gain a familiar, which is able to channel your spells. You may send your familiar to deliver your registered spells, allowing you to stay out of melee range of combat. Familiars may also make their own attacks, if you so choose. The benefit of a familiar is that it allows you one extra attack spell per combat, that the familiar delivers. Familiars are specialized Animal Companions, so please see the Animal Companion skill for how you build your Familiar NPC.
Prerequisite: Magical Affinity

Far Reaching Shot: You have learned to be accurate over longer distances. This skill doubles the range of your weapon. At Obsidian, it triples the range of your weapon. This is an innate skill.
FLAVOR

Fast Hand : This skill allows the Thief to switch the places of two objects, using sleight of hand and illusion magic. The Thief rolls a d20 + quickness, which becomes the DC to detect the switch while it's happening. Cannot be used to empty a purse but could, for example, be used to switch one purse for another.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept or Rogue AND Sapphire Rank
(V - Sapphire Rank)
FLAVOR

Fatigue Immunity: Your mount can withstand great stress. Your mount becomes immune to any of the Exhausted or Fatigued effects. This is a constant effect.
(CC - Combat Mount Profession)

Faultless Hunt: A bloodhound who establishes an implacable hunt can intensify this to a faultless hunt, enabling her to locate her mark even across planar boundaries. Unlike an implacable hunt, which can affect several marks at the same time, only one faultless hunt against a single individual can be pursued at one time. For the bloodhound to begin a faultless hunt, she must abandon any faultless hunt that she is already conducting.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Ruby Rank, Implacable Hunt
FLAVOR

Favored Enemy : A ranger can choose a certain kind of creature whose nature and habits he knows inside and out as a favored enemy. Thereafter, he gains +5 damage anytime he faces this enemy as a bonus. Must name your enemy upon taking this skill, and your enemy must be stated in your CHARACTER SHEET clearly. At Amber, Emerald, Obsidian and Diamond Rank you may choose a second, third, fourth and fifth favored enemy giving you a total of FIVE favored enemies by the time you reach Diamond Rank. Please choose one of the following types. If you choose "Humanoid" Or "Outsider" choose a subtype. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary) Only
COMBAT

Type | Examples of Choice
Aberration | Beholder, Illithid, Rust Monster
Animals | Bears, Alligators
Animals (Dire) | Dire Wolf
Beasts | Owlbears, Hydra, Basilisk
Constructs | Golem, Clockwork
Dragons | Blue Dragons
Elementals | Xorns, Genies
Fey | Dryads, Faeries
Giants | Ogres, Ettins
Humanoid (Aquatic)
Humanoid (Dwarf)
Humanoid (Elf)
Humanoid (Giant)
Humanoid (Goblinoid)
Humanoid (Gnoll)
Humanoid (Gnome)
Humanoid (Halfling)
Humanoid (Human)
Humanoid (Orc)
Humanoid (Reptilian)
Magical Beasts | Displacer Beasts, Manticore, Sphinx
Monstrous Humanoid | Harpies, Minotaurs
Oozes | Gelatinous Cubes
Outsiders (Air)
Outsiders (Chaotic)
Outsiders (Earth)
Outsiders (Evil)
Outsiders (Fire)
Outsiders (Good)
Outsiders (Lawful)
Outsiders (Native)
Outsiders (Water)
Plants | Shambling Mounds
Planetouched | Tieflings, Aasimar, Tanarukk
Shapechangers | Lycanthropes, Doppelgangers
Undead (Corporeal) | Zombies
Undead (Incorporeal) | Ghosts, Shades, Wraiths
Vermin | Giant Spiders, Swarms

Favored in Death: The divine power wielded by a priest grants them a strong connection with their physical form even after death, one that can be used to make a return to it less difficult. Once per week, if a priest is slain, they may instantly recover without loss of any rezzes or penalties. They instead are 1 hit point before death such as 29/30.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Emerald Rank

Favored Region : You are able to select a region of our land (Doxenia, Avilon Islands, Kir'viir, etc) and due to your extensive experience with the people, customs, and attitudes of the nobles and training in techniques for manipulating the nobility of this region, the noble gains a +2 bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, Gather Information, Intimidate, Knowledge (Nobility), and Insight checks when using these skills in relation to regents and members of the upper class of this region. At Emerald you may choose a second region, at Obsidian a third.
Prerequisite: Noble, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Favored Rival: Choose an organization. The bloodhound gains +2 bonus on Bluff, Intimidate, Gather Information, Knowledge (Geography and Local), and Insight checks, made against and pertaining to known affiliations of that organization. Available rivals are: Countries (subtype), Churches (subtype), Guilds (subtype), Houses (subtype), Organizations (subtype). At Emerald you may choose a second organization, at Obsidian a third organization, at Diamond a fourth organization.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Favored Terrain : A ranger may select a favored terrain from the terrains available, and they gain a +4 to Stealth, Spot, Listen, Athletics and Nature in that terrain. When the ranger reaches Sapphire they may choose another terrain, and yet another at Obsidian rank, and one more at Diamond rank.
Terrains: Aquatic, Desert, Underground, Forests, Hills, Marshes and Swamps, Mountains, Plains, Cities, Tundra
Ranger (Primary) Only
FLAVOR

Fealty: There is an air of command around you befitting your role in this life. You can command those of your lands to be sworn to your service. The noble rolls a 1d20 + Charisma v.s. Targets 1d20 + Willpower. If the target fails they swear fealty to the noble and will serve him/her as if they were a proper guard of the noble's house. (This skill only applies to sentient 'civilized' races. In end DM will give the final say.)
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Obsidian Rank
FLAVOR

Fearless : This does not mean you have no fear, it merely means you are able to handle any fear that wells up without reacting negatively, or running away from the area or creature. This is an innate skill.
(CC)
(R)

Fearsome Mein: Your mask takes on a fearsome appearance, scaring off enemies with a crack of thunder. This can be used once per adventure against enemies equal or lower dice than the mystic. Each enemy that meets this requirement, and can see the mystic and hear the thunder crack must make a save of Willpower vs the mystic's Charisma. Any that fail are unable to make any actions except to run away for one round of combat. Whether the enemies run away for good, or merely struck in fear for one round is up to the DM.
Prerequisite: Mystic, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Felling Escape: Through the use of fluid contortions and manipulations of leverage, you can throw your opponent to the ground after escaping a grapple. When you escape a grapple, you trip and send the grappler to the ground, causing them to lose their next turn of combat while they right themselves. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Dexterous Fighter
COMBAT

Fence : This skill allows a Thief to get a better price for stolen goods. If this is going to be used, it must be stated in the email sent for the sale of the goods, at which point the DM will roll a 1d25 and add the result in % to the price given for the goods. This does not stack with any other skill that gives you a better price at the Emporium such as Entitlement, or Bargainer.
Example: Someone else playing a Thief Adept sells a stolen item to the shop. The base value they'd get is 100. When I receive the email stating they want to sell the item, I will roll 1d25. If it comes up a 25, they get 125 gold.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept OR Rogue AND Reputation 5
(V - Reputation 5)
FLAVOR

Fencing Parry: Swashbucklers are good at keeping themselves safe from injury. Once per combat, a Swashbuckler may make a counterattack strike roll when attacked. If the Swashbuckler's strike is higher, the attack is parried and he is safe from harm, neither takes damage. This does not work in heavy armor.
Prerequisite: Swashbuckler
COMBAT
(V)

Feral Rage: A lycanborn, when angered, can attack harder, faster and more potent than before giving them that little extra push during combat. This gives them an extra 1d to their dice, such as a 2d may roll 3d once per combat.
Prerequisites: Lycanborn Racial
(R)

Fight Club: Once per combat, as a free action, you may choose one Brawler skill that you possess, and each of your teammates may gain the chosen skill as a temporary skill until the end of the current combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Fighters Defense : A fighter having trained with their weapon knows how to use it in both a defensive manner and an offensive manner. Once per combat when attacked with a physical attack, the fighter can defend against it using their primary weapon, causing the attack to do no damage to the fighter.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Amber rank. Can only be used with primary weapon.
DEFENSE - Evade

Final Vengeance : Once per day, you can make one melee attack against an opponent within reach in response to an attack that would kill you. Once your attack is resolved, you suffer the normal effect of the attack that provoked this ability.
Prerequisite: Ruby Rank, Diehard Skill
COMBAT

Finish Him Off: When an enemy's hit points drops to below half, the brawler's threat range for a critical drops to 19-20.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Fireblood : The Fireblood makes the blood oozing from your scratches, cuts, and injuries bubble and hiss, cleansing, cauterizing and healing the wound. This also serves to cure your blood of any natural poison or venom (but not rare or magical poisons) once per week. This is a specialized self-healing skill enabling you to not only gain a bonus of 5 healing points when you take this skill, but allows you to use your Self-Heal Skill in this manner (fireblood healing).
Prerequisite: Self-Healing
FLAVOR

Firewater Breath: If you have the Drunken Fighter skill, you can take a drink and expel a gout of alcohol-fueled fire in a 30-foot cone. Creatures within the cone take 2d6 points of fire damage. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler, Fighter or Monk, Drunken Fighter Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

First Impression : This skill allows a Swordmaster to favorably impress someone he has just met for the first time. An opposed roll is made, the Swordmaster adding their Charisma Bonus to their roll, and if he the target character’s attitude improves towards the adept by one degree; for example, a Neutral character becomes Friendly, an Unfriendly character becomes Neutral, and so on. The new attitude may be changed for better or worse through future interactions, but reverts back to the original within 6 hours. Any openly hostile act the Swordmaster commits against the impressed character immediately erases the impression. This may only be used once against any given character.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Charisma Bonus 5
FLAVOR

Fist of the Gods: A priest may make one powerful attack per combat, using 1d extra of their dice.
Prerequisite: Priest
COMBAT - Extra 1d
(V)

Flame Survivor: You must be knocked unconscious or killed by fire damage at least 10 times to gain this skill. It grants you a +5 defense against fire damage, and a +2 to any saves or checks versus fire effects.
Prerequisites: Proof

Flicker Jab: The Brawler uses a quick jab to a weak point in his opponent's stance, bypassing any mundane defenses for that one attack. The target may still evade, reflect, etc but any mundane armor defenses are bypassed.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession (Primary)
COMBAT

Flickering Eye: This tattoo is a stylized eye which enables the mystic to become invisible at will, for one round in duration. This does not negate any damage if a creature happens to be able to find and hit the mystic but it does allow them to be immune from any attacks (except AoE) for the round in which he is invisible.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Mystic Tattoo Skill, Sapphire Rank

Flick of the Wrist: A bard with this skill can draw a light weapon with such ease and with a single motion, allowing for one devastating attack once per combat. This causes your opponent to be caught unable to use their Quickness bonus, causing their DC against you that round to be DC10.
Prerequisites: Bard, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V - Amber)

Flow of Aura : The fox gains a perception for the feel of a place, its general bent and any psychic residue left on an area by strong emotion. Births, deaths, sicknesses, joys and other such emotions may be sensed. Work with the DM for what your character would know.
Prerequisites: Any type of fox race, such as werefox or Fox Beastfolk
FLAVOR
(CC - Fox)
(R)

Flummox the Fighter: When an opponent attacks you and misses, you are able to cause the attacker to become confused for one round if they fail a Willpower Check of DC10 + Your Quickness. It is up to the DM what the confusion entails, but it could be a lost turn, or even attacking allies.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
COMBAT

Flurry of Blows: A monk can attack so rapidly on their turn that when attacking one opponent with a successful Strike, they additionally attack another nearby opponent, both taking the same damage rolled, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Flyby Attack: You are able to attack two enemies during one round using a flyby attack. You must pass Strike for each enemy in order to do damage to each one. If you wish to attack the same person with both attacks, you must roll your Strike twice; if you pass both strikes you may roll damage as if they are two separate attacks and the target gets defense against both as if they are two separate attacks (in other words, each dmg should be done separately, with defense added to each one. Don't just add it all together into one big damage number) If you only pass one strike, you only attack once. If you fail both strikes against the same person, you miss both attacks.
Prerequisites: Must be able to fly
COMBAT
(CC)

Focused Rend: You can sense the stress points in any hard construction, such as wooden doors or stone walls, and can ignore half of the object’s total hardness (or hit points) (round down) when attacking that object. This allows you to destroy objects with ease.
Prerequisites: Psion or Spellborn, Amber Rank
(V - Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Focused Shot : This skill allows the user of a ranged weapon, to use their Intelligence modifier for ranged damage instead of Quickness. This is an innate skill.
COMBAT

Focused Strike: Channeling that legendary force within the monk's body, and unleashing it out in one devastating attack. Through concentration, training, and sheer force of will, the monk can add more power to their strike than their body should have been able of holding. The effect is that the monk may add 1d extra to their attack (meaning if they were 2d they may roll 3d). ONE time use in combat.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary)
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Focused Sunder : You can sense the stress points on others’ weapons or armor. Once a day a spellborn may destroy a weapon or armor used by a foe. The item cannot be repaired, must be bought again (legacy simply reappear whole next day). Renders weapon or armor piece useless and therefore giving the owner of the destroyed item no boost or extra dice. The target also receives the damage from the magical attack.
Prerequisites: Spellborn (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Forced Repentance: You force an evil creature to momentarily reflect on its past actions and be overcome by grief and conscience. The target immediately drops prone and begins to loudly confess all of its sins and transgressions to the paladin for one round, no save needed. The effect immediately ends if you move out of line of sight or if the target is attacked. Once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Paladin (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Force of Will: You are able to resist certain attacks and effects with extreme force of will. Once per adventure, you may make a Willpower save in place of any Endurance save you are asked to make. At Emerald, you may use this skill twice per adventure. At Ruby three times per adventure and at Obsidian, four times per adventure. At Diamond, five times per adventure.
Prerequisites: Psion or Spellborn Only

Force Shapechange : A Mystic who has seen through any disguise or shapechange is then able to force that creature into his base form. If the creature resists, then an opposed willpower check will need to be rolled.
Prerequisite: Mystic, Topaz Rank
(V - Magical Affinity, Topaz Rank)

Forge the Chains of Life: As you feel an ally’s spirit begin to slip away, you shout a word of command that fills that ally with new life. This can be done at any time during combat, and it causes the target to only take as much damage that will leave them within 1 point of death. It can be used once per week.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Ruby Rank

Forgetful Caress : You are able to make a target lose certain memories. You must touch the target with a caress, kiss or some other intimate contact. The target rolls a Willpower Save (DC10 + Charmer's Charisma Bonus). If the save is failed, the charmer may cause the target to forget one single piece of information such as the charmer's appearance, their meeting, or even the charmer's name. The charmer cannot make them forget a skill, ability, spell or anything of that sort. If they pass their save, they do not forget anything but do not realize the skill was used on them either. Once a target has passed the save, the Charmer cannot try again on them for 24 hours.
Prerequisites: Charmer, Magical or Psionic Affinity
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
FLAVOR

Forgo Components: This skill allows spellcasters to forgo the use of any material components. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisites: Magical Affinity
FLAVOR

Fortune : A spellborn, at any time, can re-roll any one d20 check or save that has just made before the results of the roll are revealed. You must take the result of the re-roll, even if it's worse than the original roll. This can be used once per day. At Obsidian, you may choose which roll to use.
Prerequisites: Spellborn, Emerald Rank
(V - Emerald Rank)

Forsaken Undead : This gives a Forsaken immunity to disease and poisons (unless specifically for undead), as well as immunity to sleep. Forsaken do not breathe or sleep, but they do need to eat and drink. But, since they are immune to poisons they can eat just about anything. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Forsaken Race
(R)

Four Eyes, Four Ears: It is very difficult to blind or deafen you. You may roll two saves against any attempt to blind or deafen you, and take the better roll.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Friends in Low Places : You are feared and respected throughout the seedier side of town. You gain a +3 to Intimidate while in the lower class areas of any city you've spent at least 2 weeks. With a successful DC20 Intimidate Check you receive free lodging, food and clothing for one week.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept, Rogue, Bloodhound, Swashbuckler or Bard AND Reputation 10 AND Sapphire Rank
(V - Reputation 10, Sapphire Rank)
FLAVOR

Frightful Presence: The first round of any combat, an animal companion with this skill may choose to attempt to frighten enemies instead of making an attack. The animal may attempt to frighten as many enemies as their gemstone level, so at Crystal they can target 1 enemy, at Topaz 2 enemies, etc. The enemy must pass a Willpower save against the companions DC10 + Strength Bonus. If they fail, they are Shaken for the remainder of combat (-1 to ALL rolls).
(CC - Intimidating, Combatant Profession)

Gain Local Acceptance : The people living within 10 miles of your cottage think of you as 'their' witch, their primary source of healthcare and well-being, granting you additional sway over them. You gain a bonus of +5 to Bluff, Diplomacy, Gather Info, Intimidate, Insight checks while interacting with humanoid creatures residing within 10 miles of your cottage. Such locals also suffer a -5 penalty to any willpower saves against your spells, skills and item effects.
Prerequisite: Mage (Primary), Emerald Rank, Witch's Cottage Skill
FLAVOR

Gain Wand Essence: You may use up one charge of a wand to heal yourself instead, rolling the damage of the wand. Whatever you roll is how much you may heal yourself.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary)

Gallant : A knight has been subject to enough courtly intrigue to learn some tips. You get a +5 bonus on Diplomacy, Knowledge (Nobility) and Insight checks.
Prerequisite: Knight
(V)
FLAVOR

Garrote : The rogue can use a garrote weapon on a target during a sneak attack (an attack where the target has not perceived them) causing that target to be silenced, vocal components needed for spell casting due to the injured throat cannot be used, nor can they warn any of their other allies. Crystal and Topaz: 1 round, Amber and Sapphire: 2 rounds, Emerald and Ruby: 3 rounds, Obsidian: 4 rounds, Diamond: 5 rounds.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary)
COMBAT

Get Up and Fight! : This allows a knight who has healing affinity to heal an ally for up to 10 hp (can be mundane such as bandages or magical energy) in between turns, not taking up his own turn to combat in that round. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Knight, Healing Affinity, Topaz Rank
(V - Healing Affinity, Topaz Rank)

Ghost Walk: A black mage is able to become incorporeal and invisible once per day for up to 5 minutes per gemstone rank. While in this form, the black mage can move in any direction and through any object (unless it is made of force energy). He can take no action but movement in this form.
Prerequisites: Black Mage
FLAVOR
(V-Magical Affinity)

Giantbane: You are skilled at fighting creatures larger than you. The Giantbane skill grants you access to three special tactics which can be used once per combat, each. You gain Duck Beneath at Sapphire, Death from Below at Emerald, and Climb Aboard at Ruby.
Prerequisite: Colossus Hunter, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Duck Beneath: To use this tactic, you must have been attacked by a foe at least two size categories larger than you. You gain a +2 bonus to your Defense DC for that round. If the foe still hits you, you may make a DC15 Acrobatics check. If the check succeeds, you move immediately to any unoccupied area on the opposite side of the foe (having successfully ducked underneath your foe) and take half damage. If there is no unoccupied square on the opposite side of the foe or you fail the Acrobatics check, you remain in the square you are in and have failed to duck underneath your foe, and take all damage.

Death from Below: To use this tactic, you must have successfully used the duck beneath tactic in the round before you use this tactic. You may make an immediate single attack against the foe you ducked underneath. That foe loses his Quickness to his DDC (making it DC10), and you gain a +2 bonus on your Strike roll.

Climb Aboard: To use this tactic, you must be facing a foe at least two size categories larger than you. Instead of making an attack, may make a DC15 Acrobatics (Climb) check to clamber onto the creature's back or limbs. The creature you're standing on takes a -2 penalty on strike rolls against you, because it can strike at you only awkwardly. If the creature moves during its action, you move along with it. The creature can try to shake you off by making a grapple check opposed by your Climb check. If the creature succeeds, you wind up tossed off into a random area.

Glib Tongue : This skill makes listeners hear whatever they wish to hear. The feykin can say anything, even total gibberish, but anyone listening will agree heartily. While this skill is not a way to talk someone into giving over all their gold, it is a superb method of talking one's way into a noble's party, making fast friends or avoiding being caught in a lie. It can be used once per day.
Prerequisites: Feykin Race
FLAVOR
(R)

Glider: Gripplis' aerodynamic bodies and thick webbing between the toes enable a falling grippli to treat the distance fallen as half the actual distance. The grippli can steer himself while falling, moving horizontally up to a number of feet equal to half the vertical distance fallen. The grippli cannot use this skill if it is wearing heavy armor, is carrying a heavy load, or is unable to react to the fall (such as being helpless).
Prerequisite: Grippli Race Only
(R)

Gloomstrike: On a successful attack, you are able to magically blind your target for one round of combat, once per combat. They cannot do anything that round unless they have Blindsight.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Gold Sense : Much like Lock Sense, will allow you to detect any gold, no matter how well-hidden, within a range of 1d25 feet. Can be used once per adventure. Also grants a bonus of +3 to any Rogue (pickpocket) attempts if gold is the objective.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept AND Emerald Rank
(V - Emerald Rank)
FLAVOR

Good Karma: Once per adventure, you can re-roll any dice roll and take whichever is the best roll.
Prerequisites: Windling Racial
(R)

Gotcha: You can stop an ally from falling or being moved. When an ally in reach is knocked prone, pushed, pulled, or is falling you can make a DC15 Strength or Quickness check immediately to keep them standing or prevent the movement. In the case of falling allies you must keep hold of them. You must have a free hand to perform this action but you may drop an item as part of this action before making the check.
Prerequisites: Acrobatics

Grab Arrows: This allows you to not just deflect the ranged weapon attack, but to actually catch it in your hand. It may then be thrown back or used upon your next turn.
Prerequisite: Deflect Arrows
COMBAT

Graceful Exit : This is very similar to "Live to Fight Another Day" except that the Swordmaster is such a charming, engaging creature that his allies find no fault or cowardice in his actions if they would normally do so. In fact, they may even pat him on the back and congratulate him for his prowess on the battlefield, even if he withdraws from the combat.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Grand Deception: At the top of their game, the Thief Adept has learned to harness the whole of his skills and talents and set them to use. Once a day automatically pass ONE of the following, Rogue, Disguise, Bluff, Diplomacy, Gather Information
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Grant Initiative : Using your magic prowess, you are able to grant any one ally the first spot on the scoreboard at the start of any combat. If someone of higher ranking has a skill of similar effect, you would only be able to place them second. This can be used once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Mage
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity)

Grappled Pin : Allows a brawler to pin their grappled target on their turn instead of the normal choice of doing damage or releasing the target. The target is given an Escape Check of DC10 + Brawler's STR trait, if they fail, the brawler can continue to pin (Escape allowed each turn) or tie them up. Escaping from being tied up also takes an Escape Check, DC determined by the DM. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession, Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V-Emerald Rank)

Grasp of the Dead: A black mage can summon a swarm of skeletal arms to burst from the ground to rip and tear at his foes as a magical hold/attack. The skeletal arms erupt from the ground beneath the chosen foes, and must appear from a solid surface. The black mage can target 2 enemies at Amber, 3 enemies at Emerald, and 4 enemies at Obsidian. Roll a magical strike, any enemy targeted that you hit is not only held for one round, but takes 1d6 slashing damage.
Prerequisites: Black Mage (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT - LOSE TURN

Great Escape: This gives you a +5 to Escape checks, and also allows you to auto-pass one escape maneuver per day.
Prerequisite: Rogue Profession (Primary), Ruby Rank
(CC - Sneaky Profession, Ruby Rank)

Great Fervor: Once per day, you may re-roll a failed save of any kind. You must add your Intelligence to the second roll instead of what was initially required, and must accept the second roll even if it is worse than the first.
Prerequisites: INT 6
(CC - INT 6)

Greater Dual Wield: You get an extra attack with your main hand weapon, giving you a total of three attacks in one turn. You may still attack two different persons, or just attack one person. If you attack one person, the most you can roll is 6d (2d, 2d, 2d or any combination that makes 6d). This gives you three rolls of your weapon damage. Divide damage per the rules for Dual Wield, choosing one target for the third extra weapon damage. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Dual Wield or Double Tech or Double Invocation, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Greater Poisonmaking : This skill increases your DC by +4 instead of +2, and enables your poisons to be more enduring, and more powerful. The greater improvement for each poison is listed.
Prerequisite: Improved Poisonmaking, Amber Rank

Greater Stigmata: The connection to their chosen deity has strengthened over time. The Vindicator's faith is nigh unbreakable. Their devotion is whole and complete. When they choose to open themselves to the raw power of their stigmata, those with this level of devotion may double their normal stigmata bonus. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisites: Vindicator (Primary), Stigmata Skill, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Greater True Seeing : This allows one with True Seeing to be able to see the true form of shapeshifted, polymorphed, changed, or transmuted things.
Prerequisite: True Seeing Skill

Green Eyed Monster : With this skill a charmer can fill a foe with a horrible, malicious rage that makes them attack their own allies, choosing first and foremost the last ally that attacked the Charmer. Use the Lose Turn chart for how many rounds in one combat this can be used, either on one subject or several but never more than allowed per lose turns. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Gris-Gris : The shaman has created a crude amulet or token out of nothing but natural materials around her (aka bits of dried mud, straw, sticks, feathers etc) called a Gris–Gris. The Gris–Gris attracts and contains minor spirits of protection and luck and thus serves to protect the shaman from otherworldly forces as well as enhancing her natural luck. Once the Gris–Gris completed and worn, it provides the shaman with +5 Defense against magical and mundane attacks as well as providing a +1 luck bonus to all saving throws of the shaman. The shaman can only use one Gris–Gris at a time. Only the shaman who crafted the Gris–Gris may use it and any other character that attempts to use it finds it has no affect whosoever. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary)
DEFENSE

Grudge Fighter : Gain a +1 to Strike, and Damage against any opponent that dares to attack you in combat.
Prerequisite: Half-Orc
COMBAT
(R)

Gun Mage: You have learned to cast spells and wield your gunpowder weapon at the same time. You may wield any type of gun, while imbuing your bullets to attack with magic during combat against one target. This is a constant effect. Additionally, once per combat you may not only add your normal bonus to your ranged damage against the target, but your Intelligence bonus to your magic attack as well to the same target.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Gunner's Secret : Just as the echoes of your first shot dissipate, your enemies are shocked as your gun sounds once again a second later. This allows you a second shot of only gunpowder and residue from any gunpowder weapon, allowing you to roll half your weapon damage dice for added damage to one target, once per combat. For instance, if your weapon is a 1d6 pistol then you may roll an extra 1d3 for added damage.
Prerequisite: Use a gunpowder weapon.
COMBAT

Gun Twirling: You can spin and juggle a one-handed firearm, making it difficult to predict where you will shoot. This lowers your target's DDC by 2 for that round, and can be used once per combat. At Ruby, your target's DDC is lowered by 3, and at Obsidian it is lowered by 4.
Prerequisites: Use a One-Handed Gun, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Hag's Gift : The mage may freely use her abilities under water, breathe underwater, and may perfectly mimic the sounds of any animal she has ever heard before.
Prerequisite: Mage
(V-Magical Affinity)
FLAVOR

Halfling Resilience: A halfling gets a +1 save bonus on all saves.
Prerequisites: Halfling Racial
(R)

Halfling Slinger : Gain a +2 damage to attacks made using a sling. This increases to +3 at Sapphire, +4 at Ruby and +5 at Obsidian, +6 at Diamond. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisite: Halfling
COMBAT
(R)

Halo of Light : The spell creates a small halo of light above the caster's head, which will light a small area, and move with the caster for one mun hour per INT bonus or until extinguished.
Prerequisites: Magical Affinity
FLAVOR

Hallowed Bolt : By swinging your holy weapon, you can call divine bolts of lightning down upon your target dealing a one time 1d5 extra damage as you attack, once per combat. This increases to 2d5 at Emerald, and 3d5 at Obsidian.
Prerequisite: Paladin
COMBAT

Hard-Headed : Your thick skull is almost a weapon unto itself. You gain a +1 damage with any attack that you use your head, helmeted or otherwise, as part of the attack. You also gain a +1 to your save against any spell or effect that is mind-altering such as charm.
Prerequisite: Dwarf
COMBAT
(R)

Hardened Mind: A thief adept with this skill is hard to fool with mind-affecting effects. Once per combat, at the start of her turn, if she is subject to any mind-effecting spells or effects she can make a willpower save of DC15. If she succeeds, she is no longer subject to the mind-affecting effect. She can also make this save against effects that normally don't allow a save.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary), Amber Rank

Hard to Fool: Once per adventure, this skill allows the thief adept to roll twice while making an Insight check, and can take the better result. You must choose to use this before you make your Insight Check roll.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept
(V)
FLAVOR

Hateful Attack: Each time the ranger makes an attack against one of his favored enemies, threat range increases by 1 step of his weapon for this attack (so a weapon that crits at 20, would crit at 19 and 20). This does not stack with other abilities that increase a weapon’s threat range.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Hateful Rager : From a young age, many half-orcs are treated cruelly, bullied, ridiculed, and made outcasts. While some hide their shame, others foster a deep, burning hatred that they channel into a raw fury and unleash against their enemies. These half-orcs gain a favored enemy that causes a burning rage to appear, much like the ranger skill, though they only take one. Against this one enemy, they gain a +5 DMG and a +1 Strike.
Prerequisite: Half-Orc
COMBAT
(R)

Haunting Melody : A bard is able to use their performance to inspire fear in their enemies. Using your bardic talents, you cause fear to develop in all opponents within hearing or sight range. Bard rolls 1d20 + Charisma versus the target rolling 1d20 + Willpower, if target fails then they are Fear Stricken. Instead of attacking on their turn, though, the bard must continue to perform each round to keep the bonus going. This does not stack with any other bard using the same skill, only one haunting melody can be in effect at a time.
Prerequisite: Bard (Primary), Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Heal as One : This skill allows you to heal both you and your animal companion at the same time, once per adventure. Whether by healing potion, self-healing, or a healer's touch however many points of healing that you are healed for is also applied to the wounds upon your animal companion.
Prerequisites: Ranger, Ranger's Bond Skill
(V - Healing Affinity)
FLAVOR

Healer's Bargain: A healer is allowed to purchase healing potions at half price from the Emporium. If they have Alchemy, they may craft any type of healing potion without using CP.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary)

Healing Affinity : You have the ability to heal yourself, and others. A healer is given healing points per their rank, see "How Healing Works" for more information.
Crystal - 10
Topaz - 12
Amber - 14
Sapphire - 18
Emerald - 22
Ruby - 26
Obsidian - 30
Diamond - 34
(R)

Healing Arrow: An arrow of positive energy forms before you. You may shoot up to three of these healing arrows per combat, that each heal 5 hp each, at any time during the combat even if it is not your turn.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Sapphire Rank

Healing Circle : All creatures within a circle made by the healer are healed at once up to 10hp of damage, instead of having to heal individually. You may use this once per adventure and does not take any of your normal healing points.
Prerequisite: Healer OR Druid
(V - Healing Affinity)

Healing Hands : A healer can add their Charisma Bonus to their healing points once per adventure, giving them a little more healing energy for use during that adventure.
Prerequisite: Healer
(V - Healing Affinity)

Healing Kick: You hate to see your careful work ruined by an attack made right after you heal! You may imbue your healing with a little 'kick'. Once per combat, when you heal a target of at least 5hp that is engaged in battle, you also give them a +5 to their Defense for one round of combat that can go above their allowed defense.
Prerequisites: Healer, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)

Healing Kick II: You hate to see your careful work ruined by an attack made right after you heal! You may imbue your healing with another little 'kick'. Once per combat, when you heal a target of at least 5hp that is engaged in battle , you may give them a +2 to their Defense DC only for one round of combat.
Prerequisites: Healing Kick Skill, Sapphire Rank
(V - Healing Kick, Sapphire Rank)

Healing Kick III: You hate to see your careful work ruined by an attack made right after you heal! Every time you heal a new person during combat, you may choose to give that target the bonus from Healing Kick or Healing Kick II. You may only give any one person one bonus per combat.
Prerequisites: Healing Kick II Skill, Obsidian Rank
(V - Healing Kick II, Obsidian Rank)

Healing Run: When your allies need healing, you are able to help them and then get back into position. You may heal up to three allies, and then make a normal attack for your turn.
Prerequisites: Healing Affinity, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Healing Shift: When you shift from one form to another, you are able to heal yourself of all damage, once per day.
Prerequisites: Shapeshifting, Sapphire Rank

Heartening Laugh : A Swordmaster is able to support friendly characters against fear and intimidation attempts by spending a round directing a booming, mocking laugh at his opponents. This gives all allies a +5 to Willpower Checks. The effect lasts for a number of rounds equal to the Swordmaster's Charisma bonus and may be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Heartglow : A priest is able to focus his holy or unholy power within themselves into their heart, causing it to glow, which can be seen beneath your chest, even your armor and clothing. While your heart glows with either a holy or unholy light, all enemies in your presence suffer a -2 to Strike, -2 to Saving Throws and -2 to Damage as they are discomfited in the presence of your shining light. This can be used once per combat, and lasts one full round.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Heartthrob : The charmer is extremely effective at fooling others into believing they are in love. The victim’s heart believes it too, at least for a moment, until the charmer causes it to stop. This gives a charmer an extra roll of 1d of their combat dice, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Charmer
COMBAT - Extra 1d
(V)

Heat Endurance: All desertfolk gain a +5 DEF against fire damage, and never succumb to heat related environmental issues.
Prerequisites: Desertfolk Racial
(R)

Heavy Engineering: Simply modifying your existing schematics wasn't enough for you was it? You just had to push the scroll (instead of envelope, get it?) and amaze not only onlookers but yourself as well didn't you? Well now you have done it, you have created such complex pieces of art that they can only be proclaimed as heavy schematics.
Prerequisite: Modified Engineering

Heresy : This skill gives a +2 to Knowledge Checks made to recall a Fiend's True Name allowing control of a fiend the Black Mage's rank or lower for one full combat. The DC of the Knowledge Check is determined by the DM based on the power and reputation of the fiend in question. At the end of the combat, the fiend is banished back to the plane it came from.
Prerequisites: Black Mage (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Heroic Defiance : Once per day you can delay the onset of one harmful condition or affliction (such as panicked, paralyzed, stunned, and so on), including permanent and instantaneous conditions. Activating this skill delays the onset of the condition until the end of your next turn, after which time the condition takes its normal effect. This skill has no effect on hit point damage or ability damage, though.
Prerequisite: Diehard, Emerald Rank

Hex : A witchy mage can select one hex per gemstone rank beginning at Topaz, please mark this clearly on your dossier. You may only use each of your hexes once per adventure. Your target gets a willpower save against DC10 + the mage's Intelligence, if they fail the hex lasts as many rounds as the mage's Charisma, unless a Remove Curse is used on them.
Prerequisites: Mage
COMBAT

You may choose from the following hexes, the rank needed for each is marked:
1. Fatigued Hex (Topaz) - This puts the target under the effects of "Fatigued".
2. Shaken Hex (Topaz) - This puts the target under the effects of "Shaken".
3. Cackling Hex (Topaz) - This causes the target to begin laughing, and leaves them unable to cast any spells.
4. Agonizing Hex (Amber) - This puts the target under the effects of "Nausea".
5. Cursed Wound Hex (Amber) - Any wounds taken during this curse only heal half as many points. So 10 points of healing would do only 5 points of healing.
6. Frightened Hex (Amber) - This puts the target under the effects of "Frightened".
7. Infection Hex (Sapphire) - Any wounds taken during this curse become infected with disease and cannot be healed until they gain a Cure Disease. They must continue to gain Cure Diseases for additional wounds during the hex's effect unless the Remove Curse is given.
8. Misfortune Hex (Sapphire) - The target is forced to reroll one Strike, and take the worst roll of the two.
9. Blindness Hex (Sapphire) - This blinds the target for the duration of the hex.
10. Cowardice Hex (Sapphire) - The target becomes cowardly, and is always placed last in the scoreboard.
11. Fear-Stricken Hex (Emerald) - This puts the target under the effects of "Fear Stricken/Terrified".
12. Discord Hex (Emerald) - The target creature does not trust his allies for as long as the curse is in effect.
13. Sickened Hex (Emerald) - This puts the target under the effects of "Sickened".
14. Exhaustion Hex (Ruby) - This puts the target under the effects of "Exhausted".
15. Hoarfrost Hex (Ruby) - Causes target to be paralyzed with a sheen of frost while hex is in effect.
16. Withering Hex (Ruby) - Cause one extremity on a creature to wither and become useless such as an arm or leg.
17. Evil Eye Hex (Obsidian) - Cause target to lose 2 points from any one Trait.
18. Slumber Hex (Obsidian) - Causes the target to fall asleep while hex is in effect.
19. Pariah Hex (Obsidian) - Causes the target to be shunned and distrusted by all of his allies.
20. Alignment Hex (Obsidian) - Causes the target to change to it's opposite (Chaos to Law, Good to Evil, etc)

Hex Strike: Chanting and cursing, you put a hex on your enemy as part of your unarmed or melee attack. If you make a successful melee strike against an opponent, in addition to dealing your normal damage, you can deliver the effects of the chosen hex to that opponent. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Hex Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Hidden Sniper : You are accomplished at remaining unseen when you’re sniping with a ranged weapon. You are able to stay hidden and unseen by the enemy even after a ranged attack, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Ranger
(V - Use ranged weapon)

Hide in Plain Sight : At this rank, a bloodhound can use his camouflage skill even while in plain sight of their Mark.
Prerequisites: Camouflage Skill AND Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

Hidden Blade Master: A good blade is a necessity, but a hidden blade is even more dangerous. With this skill, the user of such a weapon no longer has the -2 penalty imposed on their strike. They have become so efficient with using a hidden blade that they can easily slip it into their attacks as if it was an everyday common occurrence. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Uses a hidden blade
COMBAT

High Society : You know good manners and were trained to handle social interactions in noble circles. While in noble circles you gain a +5 to Diplomacy checks.
FLAVOR

Hog-Tie : A bloodhound can attempt to pin an opponent down, and hog-tie them. A bloodhound must have a rope, chain, or manacles in one hand to use this ability. If the bloodhound makes their Strike against the target, they may then roll an opposed athletics or acrobatics check, if the bloodhound's roll is higher, then the target is hog-tied and will remain hog-tied until they roll an Escape or Strength, or they are untied.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound
COMBAT
(V)

Hollowing : Hollowing is a horrifying ritual that mutilates a creature's soul and reshapes the creature's body and mind, the resulting creature is completely under the control of the psion or spellborn. The target must be living and must have a soul: constructs, elementals, oozes, and most aberrations cannot be hollowed (per DM). The target must also be of lesser dice than the psion/spellborn. Hollowing can only be done on NPC's allowed by the DM, and only once per adventure. Once a creature has become Hollowed the process cannot be reversed. A permanently slain Hollowed creature cannot be resurrected or raised by any means. The target is given a willpower roll against a DC of 10 + the psion/spellborn's Intelligence Bonus.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary) or Spellborn (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Holy Aura : Paladins exhibit a divine and good aura at all times around them. They are unable to be turned undead by any means. You gain a +5 defense against unholy attacks.
Prerequisite: Paladin
(V)

Holy/Unholy Resistance : If you are good aligned, you gain a resistance of +2 defense against unholy attacks. If you are evil aligned, you gain a resistance of +2 defense against holy attacks.
DEFENSE

Holy Strike: Any weapon that is held is treated as a holy, good aligned weapon. Holy weapons using this skill always deal double weapon damage to evil creatures, no matter what they are weak to.
Prerequisite: Devout Class
COMBAT
(V)

Holy Valor : A Paladin or Priest gains an extra +5 DMG to any attack against evil or undead.
Prerequisite: Paladin or Priest
COMBAT
(V)

Homegrown : Using herbs grown in the witches own garden, the potions the witch brews in her cauldron have a critical effect which either have a curse effect (Hex) or a positive effect (Boon) on the target of the potion. You must decide when you craft the potion if it has a hex or boon. When the potion is used, roll 1d20 on the Boon Skill chart or the Hex Skill chart to determine the effect.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), Alchemy Skill, Witch's Cottage

Honest Lies: If a thief adept is placed under an effect that would force her to tell the truth, she may make a Bluff Check to cause the effect to not detect her lies or force her to speak the truth.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept, Ruby Rank
(V - Magical or Psionic Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Honor Resurrection: If you died an honorable death, your political connections resurrect you. You have gained the reputation enough to warrant the higher lords to finance an resurrection of your person. As such they have decided that because you died a noble and honorable death they will assist you. This allows you to gain one rezz a week without payment, or need of any item to rezz you and you do not lose one of your five rezzes.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary), Emerald Rank, Reputation of 15

Honor Shield : A knight or fighter can choose to shield one ally, once per combat, the attack glances off the knight's shield and no one takes damage. They must use a shield in combat to use this skill.
Prerequisites: Knight, Paladin or Fighter, Uses Shield in Combat
DEFENSE
(V - Uses Shield)

Horse Whisperer: You are able to urge horses and ponies to their best performance, to calm them when they are agitated, and allow them to accept you as a rider. You receive a +5 to Handle Animal and Ride checks concerning horses, ponies, mules or donkeys. In addition, any animal you are riding gets a +5 to Acrobatics if needed.
FLAVOR
(R)

Howl of the Wild: Your eerie howl channels primal power into your allies, giving them a boost of +2 Strike for one round of combat. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Druid, Sapphire Rank, Savage Blessing Skill
COMBAT
(V-Sapphire Rank, Savage Blessing Skill)

Hunter’s Eye : A ranger has been hunting his favored enemies so long that his skill borders on the supernatural. He is instantly aware of any favored enemy within (ten times Intelligence bonus) feet and may immediately make a surprise attack on any one of them, getting a +2 to Strike on that first attack.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary), Favored Enemy, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Hunter's Shot: Once per combat, an archer can take a shot that ignores a creature's natural armor.
Prerequisite: Use a Bow, or Crossbow
COMBAT

Huntsman/Huntswoman: You do not only understand your favored terrain, you are part of it. Blending in with it like a drop of water in a stream, a blade of grass in a field, or a cobble in the street. This skill doubles the boosts to favored terrain.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Favored Terrain Skill, Obsidian Rank
FLAVOR

I Will Break You: Brawlers are back-breakers, the limb-twisters, and the neck-snappers among the fighting classes. Their bare hands acting like hammers as they crash upon bone. The brawler picks a bone in their foe (arm, ribs, leg, jaw, etc., etc.. NOT skull, neck, spine) and on a successful hit they break the bone. The target loses control over the broken limb and they must have a Healer or pay for Services Rendered to mend the bone, self healing or magical healing will not mend the attack.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Illusory Nakedness : "Imagine then naked" is often given as a way to lower one's nervousness when performing. With this ability, the charmer can see all as they were without clothing. It also has a side effect that is helpful, for perhaps when the charmer sees how small, or how large, or how...fake someone is in the nude they will fare much better choosing another victim...or it can be used to reveal items, weapons and the like hidden upon the target's body. (Muns should answer any questions about their character's nude bodies if charmer asks.)
Prerequisite: Thief Adept OR Charmer, AND Magical Affinity.
(V - Magical Affinity)
FLAVOR

Imbue Ammunition: You may cast any regged spell in your spellbook by imbuing your ammunition with the spell and then proceeding as a normal ranged attack. If you Strike your enemy, they not only take damage, but must save against the effect of the particular spell that was imbued. You may do this as many times as you are allowed spells in combat, for instance, normally you are allowed two spells in combat. You may use both of those in this way.
Prerequisites: Arcane Class, Arcane Archer or Gun Mage Skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Immobilization: A Bloodhound often finds the only way to gain the advantage over a Mark is to make one themselves. Successfully grappling their target provides the opportunity to Hog-Tie without further effort. When Mark is Hog-Tied, combat ends. Target must make escape check to get free using appropriate DC.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound (Primary)
(These are on Escape DC in "Sample DCs")

Escape
Restraint - DC
Ropes - Binder’s Use Object roll
Net, animate rope spell, command plants spell, control plants spell, or entangle spell - 20
Manacles - 30
Masterwork manacles - 35

Immunity to Sleep : Your blood allows the act of any sleep effects to be nulled automatically. This is an innate skill.
(R)

Immunity to Charm : You are immune to the sweet and seductive words of a Charmer. A Charmer cannot seduce or charm you by any means, magic or otherwise, outside of combat. The following skills do not work: All You Can Think About, Aura of Lust, Forgetful Caress, Smoldering Glance and Pheromones. Spells that attempt to charm or seduce the target outside of combat simply do not work. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Bard, Noble, Rogue, Swordmaster, Charmer or Arcane Class only

Immunity from Disease : A charmer need not worry about contracting diseases during his trysts, nor becoming a carrier or passing on any disease that they may already have. This doesn't cure disease, it merely prevents it's transfer. This is an constant effect.
Prerequisites: Charmer
(V)

Imp Companion : A Black Mage forms a close bond with a particular imp. The imp is loyal to the mage (though ultimately loyal to Hell), and acts as per the Familiar skill, and the Animal Companion skill. If the imp is slain or the diabolist release it from her service, she may gain a new one by performing a ceremony requiring a 24-hour ritual to conjure and bind the new imp to herself. This skill is in place of Animal Companion and Familiar, you may not take either of those skills AND this skill. If you have one already, this skill replaces it on your skill list.
Prerequisite: Arcane (Primary), Amber Rank

Implacable Hunt: If the bloodhound wounds a mark and the mark escapes, the bloodhound always knows the direction in which her mark lies and the approximate distance between her and her mark. If the target is within 50 feet, the bloodhound can pinpoint the target’s precise location. This ability only works if the bloodhound and her target are on the same plane of existence. Implacable hunt can be used simultaneously against different marks.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Emerald Rank

Impressive Tool: The finest meal in the world can be let down by presentation. The humanoid species are very visually oriented, especially the men, when it comes to breasts this fixation is even more acute, though a man's "package" can be just as tempting to stare at when it's presented just right. The seducer with this feat has learned how to enhance, manipulate and present her boobs to the best effect, how to lean over just right in a low cut top, how to enhance with wads of cloth or how to slim down with a little strapping. A man has also learned the best way to present his package for the maximum exposure, enhancing with just right tight clothes, or even wads of cloth. Those will magical ability have also learned how to create the illusion of a larger package, or bigger boobs.

The charmer gets let into places not otherwise allowed, such as exclusive clubs or parties, often getting free or cheap drinks in taverns and bars and never failing to attract attention. In non-combat situations, the seducer can use their impressive bust or package to distract men or women. After the seducer puts on a bit of a teasing display, the subject of the attempt must make a willpower check of 1d20, DC15 or be considered distracted, missing one combat turn.
Prerequisites: Charmer (Primary)
COMBAT - Lose Turn (One Round)

Improved Disable Device : Once per adventure, a rogue can disable a device without any Rogue check.
Prerequisites: Disable Device skill

Improved Grapple : You are skilled at grappling your foes. You gain a +2 to all grapple checks (opposed strength check), regardless of whether you started the grapple.
COMBAT

Improved Iron Will: Once per adventure, you may re-roll your Willpower Check and take the better of the two rolls.
Prerequisites: Iron Will, Sapphire Rank
(CC - Sapphire Rank, Iron Will)

Improved Poisonmaking : This skill add +2 to the DC of your poisons. Your poisons will also be improved, each poison's improvement is listed.
Prerequisite: Poisonmaking and Use, Topaz Rank

Improved Psicrystal: Your psicrystal can be implanted with a second personality, which also enables you to imprint a second spell into it which can be used within combat without taking up a combat spell slot.
Prerequisite: Psion (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Improved Rezz : Once per day you may rezz a creature without them losing any of their five OH rezzes. At Emerald Rank, you may rezz twice a day. At Ruby, three times a day. At Obsidian, it is unlimited.
Prerequisites: Rezz the Dead AND Sapphire Rank

Improved Runecraft : This skill increases your DC for runes by +2, and allows you to purchase gemstones for runecrafting ONLY for half price. Your runes are considered "improved".
Prerequisite: CMI:Etch Runes, Topaz Rank

Improved Winged Fist: A monk may channel his chi and damage a ranged target with his unarmed attacks, gaining all boosts to unarmed that he normally gains. At Sapphire, he may use IWF twice per combat, at Emerald/Ruby three times per combat, at Obsidian four times per combat, and at Diamond throughout a full combat.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Winged Fist Skill
COMBAT

Incite Monologue : This skill allows someone with the Engaging Banter skill to keep a target talking after the duration of his Engaging Banter talent ends. To use Incite Monologue, another opposed check is made against the Swordmaster's 1d20 + Charisma Bonus v.s Target's 1d20 + Willpower. If the swordmaster wins, then the target continues to talk (and take no offensive or defensive actions) for one more round even after the swordmaster moves away and ends the banter. If the target is attacked during that round, they are able to take defensive action.
Prerequisite: Engaging Banter
COMBAT

Incite to Anger : You are able to incite one target to rage against you, and only you, through words and/or actions causing them to only attack you for the duration of the combat or until you state you are not using the skill anymore. You may incite as many targets to anger as your Charisma bonus. After the first round, an enemy may attempt to break free of this skill and an opposed roll is made. The enemy adds Willpower, the inciter adds Charisma.
Prerequisites: Knight, Fighter, Brawler, Charmer, Swordmaster OR Rogue
(V)

Incorporate Ghost : This skill forces an incorporeal creature into a solid and corporeal form, causing it to be affected by physical attacks. Follow the rules for Lose Turn as far as how many rounds the creature is forced into a corporeal form. You may use this skill once per combat.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, Topaz Rank
COMBAT
V - Magical or Psionic Affinity, Topaz

Incredible Insight: You are very good at determining a creature's body language, giving you a +5 on Insight checks.
FLAVOR
(R)

Inertial Armor: Your mind generates a field of protective energy around you. This inertial armor grants them a +3 boost to magical and mundane defense throughout combat. At Emerald, the defense improves to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6 DEF. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Psion
DEFENSE
(V - Psionic Affinity)

Infernal Charm : +2 to Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, and Gather Info Checks vs Daemons, Demons, and Devils.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, Non-good alignment
(V-Magical Affinity, Non-Good Alignment)
FLAVOR

Innate Spell : You have mastered one spell so well, that you may cast it once per combat, and it does not count towards your one registered spell per combat. You still must give a save if such applies. You MUST choose your spell at the time of taking this skill, and it MUST be posted on your sheet!! You cannot change it out until you reach the next gemstone level. You may only take this skill one time!
Prerequisite: Mage/Psion/Spellborn (Primary) AND Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Inspirational Elegy : Your performance causes either yourself, or your target, to sharpen their mind and allows the wisdom of those past to fill their minds to assist them in solving problems or deciphering riddles or codes. This gives you (or one target) one hint from the DM which will help you solve the problem or riddle.
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)
FLAVOR

Instinct Attack: Shapeshifting warriors know that the magic wielded by many powerful creatures can confuse the mind and cloud a warrior's judgment, and so they learn to react to magic forcefully. Whenever you fail a Willpower save against a spell (excluding "harmless" spells), you can make a single melee attack as an immediate action before the spell takes effect.
Prerequisites: Shapeshifting, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Intimidate Shot : You are able to shoot an arrow at a target so that it falls away right before it strikes them, giving a +3 to an Intimidate Check you roll instead of an attack roll. If the target fails, they turn and run for one round. (Up to DM if they keep running, or join the battle again.)
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary)

Intimidating : You have a knack for creating fear and loathing in those around you, giving you a +5 to all Intimidation rolls.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Investigator: You gain a +5 on Gather Info, Insight and Search Checks.
FLAVOR
(R)

Invisibility : You can become invisible at will, giving you a +5 to Hide Checks. Once per day you may pass a Hide check without rolling.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity, Or by special arrangement by race
(R - special arrangement)

Ioun Master : This skill allows you to gain, and use ioun stones without the need for any of them to take up a loot slot. At Crystal rank you may use 1 ioun stone freely, at Topaz two, Amber three, and so on - adding 1 stone per gemstone rank you are allowed to freely use. Ioun stones can be gained through adventuring (loot) and special sales. This is a constant skill.

I Remember This One! : You have a love of drink and a keen alchemical sense. They use these skills to remember potions and tonics once tasted or smelled. You can automatically identify any potion, tonic or poison you have tasted or smelled at least once before by sipping or sniffing it.
Prerequisites: Alchemy Skill
FLAVOR

Iron Paw : This skill causes your animal companion's or familiar's claws to be considered cold iron for one full combat. Can be used once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Companion / Familiar Only
(CC)

Iron Will : You have extreme willpower, giving you a +1/+2/+3/+4 to any Willpower Checks. Willpower is what you use to fight against mental, emotional, and magical effects, spells and powers. As you strengthen your resolve and gain experience in the world, so too does you will grow. +1 at skill selection, +2 at Amber Rank, +3 at Emerald and +4 at Obsidian.
(CC)

I Said Come: A Black Mage can choose to command an undead creatures instead of halting them, allowing the undead an opposed Willpower Check vs your 1d20 Roll + Int Bonus. If you roll higher, then the undead creature is under your command for one turn of combat.
Prerequisite: Black Mage, I Said Stop Skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity, I Said Stop Skill, Sapphire Rank)

I Said Stop: A Black Mage can halt undead creatures by channeling negative energy through his body. This means that they may attempt to force an undead creature to simply stop everything they are doing for one turn . On your turn you would roll an opposed Willpower Check. If you roll higher, then the undead halts and takes no action for one round.
Prerequisite: Black Mage, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity, Amber Rank)

I See Your Stitches : The body and soul are two components of one complete being. You know much about undead, including the fact that undead spirits are barely stitched to their bodies; you're an expert at exploiting this weakness. All Hostile undead (those that you do not control and which threaten you and your allies) within Close Range, are affected by a minor disruption. You cause them to suffer a -1 penalty to Strikes, Damage, and Saves.
Prerequisite: Black Mage, Topaz Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity - Topaz Rank)

Jawbreaker : You deliver a powerful strike to the mouth, breaking teeth and bone. When you make a successful strike against an opponent, you can cripple that opponent’s mouth, dealing normal unarmed damage as well as stunning them for one round. Also, until they heal of the damage inflicted on that attack, the target is unable to use its mouth to attack, speak clearly, and employ verbal spell components. A creature that has no discernible mouth is immune to the effects of this skill. Once per combat.
COMBAT
(CC - Combatant Profession)

Jinxed : The target feels a sharp, stabbing pain along it's chest and other regions whenever it utters a word, causing its focus to slip as a thousand pin points jab at it quickly. The target affected by a Voodoo Curse can no longer speak - including any skills that have spoken parts, or verbal components of spells - for one round of combat without causing sharp pain to themselves. If they insist on speaking anyway, the pain causes them to lose one round of combat immediately following and take 5 points of damage (no defense against). Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Shaman, Voodoo Curse
COMBAT

Jousting Mastery : This gives the knight a -2 to jousting rolls. In jousts, you roll a 1d10 to determine points scared. The lower the number you roll the better you score.
Prerequisite: Knight or Paladin
(V)
FLAVOR

Juggernaut: When you take over 20hp of damage in one hit, you may choose to convert up to 1/2 of that damage to non-lethal damage.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT
(V-Obsidian Rank)

Jumper: A Grippli can always 'take 10' for Jump Checks, and once per day they may choose to auto-pass one Jump Check.
Prerequisite: Grippli Race Only
(R)

Just Desserts : Once per combat, a mage or black mage can cause terrible wounds to rip open across a target's flesh if they have dealt damage to the mage. This is similar to a reflect, but both the mage and the target take the full damage of the incoming attack. Only magical defense is allowed from the target, it bypasses any mundane armor they may be wearing.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), or Black Mage (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Karma : A Lucky Duck has learned how to integrate his luck into battle. If good, a Lucky Duck can redirect an attack against an ally to himself 1/combat. If evil a Lucky Duck can redirect an attack directed at himself to an ally instead. If neutral, he can redirect the attacks either of those ways.
Prerequisite: Lucky Duck Skill AND Amber Rank

Keen Memory : You have a memory so fine tuned that you can recall any event as if it was currently happening. You can remember passages from books you've read once, or signs you just briefly glanced at in passing. You can perfectly repeat to others what you hear. Whenever you make a successful Listen check to hear a noise, you can describe that sound any time up to 1 hour later with such clarity that any individuals hearing the description are treated as if they had heard the sound themselves. This trick is particularly useful if you overhear a conversation but don't understand the language spoken, since it allows you to repeat it verbatim to an ally who might be able to translate.
Prerequisite: Alert or Voracious Reader Skill
FLAVOR
(R)

Kh'ronen Focus: Depending on what subrace of kh'ron you are, you gain the ability to infuse one attack per combat with the element you are associated with, giving you an extra 1d to your attack dice (so a 2d would use 3d).
    Winter Kh'ron (du'kh'ron): Ice
    Woodland Kh'ron (twi'kh'ron): Nature
    Dark Kh'ron (lo'kh'ron): Shadow
    Water Kh'ron (ag'kh'ron): Water
    Royal Kh'ron (ela'kh'ron): Fire
    Star Kh'ron (uv'kh'ron): Radiance
    Silver Kh'ron (ne'kh'ron): Chaos
    Mixed Kh'ron (twa'kh'ron): Choose from one of the above.
Prerequisites: Kh'ronen Racial
(R)

Ki Focus : You have reached the very apex of your training. The sum of your lessons, the ability to siphon out all the commotion in combat and narrow your attention to that one moment. Focusing on nothing but your strike, you channel all your inner energy into one devastating attack. Rolling your combat dice twice, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary) & Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Killing Flourish: You inspire dread in other foes when you slay an enemy. Once per combat, when you reduce an opponent to below 0 hit points with an attack, you may immediately attempt an Intimidate check to demoralize all foes within 30 feet who can see your attack. Demoralized foes are considered Shaken for the remainder of combat.
Prerequisites: CHA 5 or Intimidating Skill
COMBAT

Kippup : The character gets back on his feet with a flip or roll and is able to perform a counterattack immediately upon being attacked. This enables the fighter or brawler to roll 1d of their dice on an attack immediately after they are attacked without a strike needed, once per combat. They may also use any attack bonuses on their weapon they have up to +5.
Prerequisite: Fighter or Brawler
DEFENSE
(V)

Kitten’s Cry : You are able to make a pitiful sound, a tone so pathetic that anyone who hears it goes out of his way to comfort you. This compulsion extends to attackers, who break off hostilities unless they are attacked in return. A save is given of a 1d20 + Relationship Difficulty from list below, against the werecat's 1d20 + Charisma. . If the roll succeeds, the target immediately stops whatever he’s doing and offers sympathy for the werecat’s pain. This is a mind effect.
Relationship Difficulty
    Lover/relative 4
    Friend 5
    Passerby 6
    Total stranger 7
    Rival 8
    Enemy 9
    Foe in combat 10
Prerequisite: Any type of cat race: werecat, beastfolk cat, etc.
(CC - cat type animal)
(R)

Knock Out Blow - A rogue may use their Primary Strike to knock out an opponent for one round only, once per combat, instead of dealing damage if they are successful in hitting their target.
Prerequisite: Rogue

Know Direction : You instantly know the direction of north from your current position. This is effective in any environment in which “north” exists, but it may not work in extraplanar settings. You know instantly how to get to any place you've been before, and you are aware of all major cities and towns, and major landmarks in any given land which allows you to follow directions with ease. You can backtrack your way to the point you started no matter the environment unless it has been magically changed (such as in the Maze House).
Prerequisite: Ranger OR Druid
(V)
FLAVOR

Knowledge: You have accrued knowledge of one specific source. You also gain a +10 to each knowledge check asked for in that area. You may choose ONE type of knowledge per Gemstone rank you attain to gain your boost in! This is retroactive, you may choose as many knowledges as your gemstone ranks. Without Knowledge, you normally cannot make knowledge checks unless untrained is allowed. You may take this skill more than once.
FLAVOR
(R)

* Architecture & Engineering (buildings, bridges, man-made creations, aqueducts, fortifications)
* Anthropology and Archeology (ancient ruins and humanoids, ancient history, legends)
*Arcana (ancient mysteries, magic traditions, arcane symbols, cryptic phrases, constructs, dragons, magical beasts)
* Astrology and Astronomy (constellations, planetary movement, reading of omens, stellar phenomenon)
* Body Modification (what tattoos, piercings and scarification means)
* Botany (plants, fungi, sentient plants)
* Alchemy & Potions (properties of chemicals, compounds, organic materials)
* Deities (the deities and their legends and lore)
* Dragons (In-depth information about dragons, their physiology, powers, weaknesses, and their role)
* Dungeoneering (anything related to dungeoneering, including finding your way through dungeon complexes, navigating winding caverns, recognizing dungeon hazards, and foraging for food in the Underdark, aberrations, oozes)
* Geology (rocks, mountains, land masses, volcanoes)
*Geography (where things are located, lands, terrain, climate, people)
* Literature (epic poems, literary devices, mythology, plays, sonnets)
* History (royalty, wars, colonies, migrations, founding of cities)
* Local (gossip, news, important individuals, organizations, legends, personalities, laws, customs, traditions, humanoids)
* Martial Arts (fighting styles, combat)
* Mathematics (algebra, calculus, geometry)
* Medicine (diseases, anatomy, illnesses)
* Monster Lore
* Music (instruments, hymns, reading music)
* Mythology (local myths and legends)
* Nature (animals, fey, giants, monstrous humanoids, plants, seasons and cycles, weather, vermin)
* Nobility/Royalty (past and present nobles, royalty, and their stories, lineages, heraldry, family trees, mottoes, personalities)
* Oceanography (underwater life, fishing, sailing, navigation)
* Psionics (traditions, symbols, races, monsters, mysteries)
* Region (State which area such as Thanes, Doxenia, Swamps, Mountains, Sarkotos, Avilon Islands, etc - geography, culture, law, politics, and history of the region)
* Religion (gods and goddesses, mythic history, ecclesiastic tradition, holy symbols, undead)
* The Planes (outer, inner, demiplanes ,and it's denizens, the Astral Plane, the Ethereal Plane, outsiders, elementals, magic related to the planes)
* Trade Routes
* Savage Humanoids (savage humanoids and their turf, habits, and culture)
* Secret Codes/Scripts (knowledge of code breaking)
* Sociology (cultures, traditions, city planning, streetwise)
* Toxicology (organic and synthetic poisons, narcotics)
* Wild Animals
* Undead (specialized skill about vampires, zombies, skeletons, and other undead. weaknesses, lore, how they are made, etc.)

Knowledge of the Awakened: Your awakened animal is now able to process all the information that it has learned over its life, as well as new information it gleans from the world around it. You may choose as many knowledge types as your animal's INT bonus (see Knowledge skill) as well as Knowledge (Nature) that your animal can now participate in Knowledge Checks when needed.
(CC - Awaken Animal)

Know What I'm Talking About: Sometimes a person would rather talk to someone who understands over someone who is just good at talking. This skill allows you to add +5 to any diplomatic check involving subjects that you have trained knowledge in, such as those learned through Knowledge or a crafting skill. Please work with the DM for this skill.
Prerequisites: Knowledge skill or related crafting skill
FLAVOR

Lament : Your lamentful performance creates sorrow and sadness to all within hearing distance, sending them into fits of tears and extreme lamentation. Enemies cannot attack for the duration of the song, they are too upset to function normally. If this is done during a quest, the entire combat ceases for 5-10 mun minutes, and when it begins again it is considered a new combat. This resets skills and magic use that can only be used 1/combat. It is a good idea to talk to your DM before you use this.
Prerequisite: Bard
COMBAT
(V)

Landing Roll : You have learned the technique of rolling safely away when an enemy trips you. You may use this once per combat, if you are tripped you do not lose a turn to right yourself.
Prerequisites: Athletics
COMBAT
(CC - Athletics)

Lasting Inspiration : Only a bard may take this skill, and it enables them to inspire their allies with even greater benefits. Their Inspire Allies bonus of defense or attack goes up to +5. This is constant, it merely boosts your profession bonus at all times when used.
Prerequisite: Bard (Primary)

Lay On Hands: Once per day a healer with this skill may do a complete full heal on target. The healing does not count against healing points.
Prerequisites: Healer (Primary), Ruby Rank

Ledge Walker : You can move at full speed without need of an Acrobatics check when you are balancing on narrow surfaces.
FLAVOR
(CC)

Legendary Booty: Whenever there's treasure, someone knows about it, and it's usually the treasure hunter that does. Whenever the issue of a particular cache of treasure or legendary item is raised, the swashbuckler may make a check to remember tales of its location: roll 1d20 + INT, against a DC of 10 (mundane treasure you don't care about at this level), 15 (minor magic items), 20 (really good stuff) , 25 (artifacts, important plot items and extremely good items) or 30 (rare relics and epic items).
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary)
FLAVOR

Lesser Vampiric Command: This is just like Vampiric Command, except that the DC is lowered to DC12 to resist, and the target can roll every half hour to break free from the command.
Prerequisites: Dhampire Racial
(R)

Levitation : You have inborn talent of some kind to levitate at will. Levitation involves floating a few inches off the ground if you are moving horizontally; if you wish to move straight up and down, the highest you may go is 20 feet.
Prerequisite: Drow Race OR Magical Affinity
FLAVOR
(R)

Lick Wounds : A brawler is able to heal once per combat up to the amount of his Endurance Bonus. This healing takes up the brawler's turn.
Prerequisites: Brawler
(V)

Life Blossom - This allows a druid to heal themselves up to 10 hit points, once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Druid
(V - Healing Affinity)

Life's Blood : Your blood flows with eternal life, and its healing powers allow you use your blood to heal others. At any point in or out of combat, you may perform a special bloodletting ritual through which you sacrifice some of your own vitality to heal another creature. When using this skill, you can choose how much damage you wish to do to yourself and apply your blood to the wounds of a living creature, healing it for a number of hit points twice the amount of damage you took from the ritual. A creature cannot be healed by this ability more than once per day. This skill can only be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Daeva, Amber Rank

Life Sight: A white necromancer gains blindsight to a range of 10 feet for as many rounds per day as how many gemstone ranks they have achieved. The ability only allows him to detect living and undead creatures. It also tells him whether a creature is living or undead. Constructs and other creatures that are neither living nor dead cannot be seen. The range increases to 20 feet at Sapphire Rank, and 30 feet at Ruby Rank, 40 feet at Diamond Rank.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, White Necromancy Skill

Life Through Two Eyes: You may attempt to see through not only your eyes, but your animal companion's eyes as well. When doing so, you and your companion gain a +3 to all Spot Checks.
Prerequisite: Druid, Sapphire Rank
(V-Sapphire Rank, Animal Companion)

Lightbringer: Whenever you cast a spell, you may choose to infuse the spell with positive energy, which always does double damage to evil undead creatures, regardless of what they are weak against.
Prequisites: Mage
(V - Magical Affinity)

Light Companion: Your companion's natural attacks are infused with radiance. This is a constant skill.
(CC - Magical Profession)

Lightning Initiative You are so quick to dive into battle that you gain a boost to your initiative. +10 to init rolls. This is a constant skill.
FLAVOR
(CC)

Lightning Strikes: A monk of this skill attacks so rapidly that the target is unable to make any defensive moves against the attack such as evades, counter attacks or even reflects. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary), Flurry of Blows Skill, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Limelight : A bard has learned to distract the enemies around them during combat, thereby attaining a boost to their Defense DC of +2 while they are using their bardic talents.
Prerequisite: Bard AND Emerald Rank
DEFENSE
(V - Emerald Rank)

Lingering Spell : This skill allows you to cast spells that last an extra round from what is allowed. This is a constant effect.
Prerequisites: Arcane Class AND Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Lip Reading : The Lip Reading skill gives you a discreet method of eavesdropping on other's conversations. You must be able to see the speaker’s lips to use this skill and you must know the language that is being spoken to read the lips.
FLAVOR
(R)

Live off the Land : You are able to live off the land, finding food, water, and knowing survival techniques to exist in the wilderness for yourself and up to 2 others. This allows you to use hunting to provide rations for you and your companions.
Prerequisite: Ranger or Druid
(V)
FLAVOR
(CC - Hunting Profession)

Live to Fight Another Day : Once per day, you may withdraw completely from combat and flee the scene without fear of being stopped in any way, skill, spell or otherwise. You cannot make any other attacks, defend allies, cast spells or do anything to augment or detract from the battle once you've withdrawn and you cannot return and rejoin battle again. You are out, able to live to fight another day, but left to simply witness the rest of the battle from afar and self-heal or be gone completely.
(CC)

Living Construct: You are a living construct. As a living construct, you can attach and embed magical items to yourself (using the slot system). You do not eat, drink, breathe, or sleep. You never need to make Endurance checks to resist the effect of starvation, thirst, suffocation, poison or disease (unless specifically targetting constructs). All other conditions and effects affect you normally. Your body is your armor, giving you a natural +18 DEF (treated as medium armor for init penalty, max quickness is 12, armor cap is 30). This gives you an extra slot (armor slot) to place other magical items. (If you are Small or Tiny you get +16, if you are Large you get +20)
Prerequisites: Warforged Racial
(R)

Locate Creature : Once per day, a bloodhound can produce an effect identical to that of a locate creature spell, and locate one creature if they are on the same plane of existence as the bloodhound.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound (Primary) only

Lockpicking : You are skilled at picking locks and gain a +5 to any lockpicking (Rogue) checks that you make.
Prerequisite: Rogue
(V)

Lock Sense : You can sense the presence and general direction of locks in your immediate vicinity, even hidden ones.
Prerequsite: Thief Adept
(V)
FLAVOR

Long Life : You live much longer than a normal lifespan. Whatever your race's normal life span, you live twice. This can be taken more than once. Each time doubles your normal life span.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Lore of Life and Death: A white necromancer may double his INT bonus when making Knowledge checks pertaining to subjects like death, burial practices, undead or the afterlife. In addition, a white necromancer who has Healing Affinity gains a +10 to their healing points with this skill.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, White Necromancy Skill, Sapphire Rank

Loremaster : Your ability to learn and research knows no bounds, you may make a knowledge check on any knowledge. In addition to other bonuses, you gain a +5 to all knowledge checks.
Prerequisite: Voracious Reader AND Knowledge Skill
FLAVOR

Low Blow : The brawler is a vicious, dirty fighter. This is demonstrated by their cruelty towards their enemy. Brawlers are not bound to the same moral code as others are. In combat everything goes for them, from hair pulling to eye gouging and yes even the dreaded low blow. Depending on their opponent (man or woman) the brawler attack what they know is the most sensitive areas. For a man this means a devastating blow to the family jewels, while to a woman it is the downright mauling of their chest. The attack leaves their opponent in horrible pain as well as a state of shock. This allows the brawler to roll 1d extra of their dice, once per combat. (So a 2d would roll 3d)
Prerequisites: Brawler
COMBAT - Extra 1d
(V)

Low-Light Vision : See twice as far as a normal human in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination. He retains the ability to distinguish color and detail under these conditions. This is a constant skill.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Loyal Beyond Death : A high ranking knight becomes loyal beyond death. The knight may act for one round past being hit a death blow, provided that her body remains more or less intact. This can be used once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Loyal Companion: A noble is able to gain the service of a loyal animal. There is nothing divine or mystical about this connection; it is simply a bond formed by rearing, training, and cohabitation with an animal bred for service. Therefore, the animal companion does not gain any mystical or magical connections. It is simply a loyal companion. The noble may select either a dog, horse, or falcon as their companion, and gains a bonus to skills depending on this choice, as long as he can see or hear his animal companion.
Dog: +3 competence bonus to Listen Checks.
Horse: +3 bonus to Ride Checks.
Falcon: +3 bonus to Spot Checks.
At Emerald, the bonus increases to +4, at Ruby +5, and Obsidian +6, at Diamond +7.
Prerequisites: Noble, Amber Rank
(V)
FLAVOR

Lucky Duck : You are lucky! You can re-roll for any check (such as Spot, Rogue, etc) but you have to take the second roll even if it's worse. This can be used once per adventure.
(CC)
(R)

Lucky Bastard : You are one lucky bastard. You can use Lucky Duck up to 3/adventure and can take whichever is the best roll. You can also re-roll any other roll you make (Strike, Combat Dice, Save, etc) 1/adventure and take the best roll.
Prerequisite: Lucky Duck Skill, Emerald Rank
(CC - Lucky Duck, Emerald Rank)

Lucky Start: You may re-roll your initiative, once per adventure. You may then choose which roll to take.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Amber Rank

Lumian Resistance: You gain a resistance to the element you are associated with, so for instance a frost lumian would gain a +5 DEF against cold, and a fire lumian would get a +5 DEF against fire.
Prerequisites: Lumian Racial
(R)

Lunar Born: Your ties to the moon and ice allow you to be immune from cold. All weapons you hold are naturally covered in ice and frost, as are natural weapons (like claws, talons). This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Moonfey Racial
(R)

Lunar Veil: You conjure a tremendous area of shadow to obscure moonlight within the area, creating something akin to a lunar eclipse. Lycanthropes in the area of darkness must make a Willpower save every round or revert to their humanoid forms.
Prerequisites: Priest (Primary), Emerald Rank

Lunge and Vanish: Once per combat, while in any shapeshifted animal form, you can disappear after mauling your enemy. After your attack you become invisible and quickly move far enough away from your target that they cannot use any sort of counterattack against you.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(CC - Magical Profession, Ruby Rank)

Mad Alchemy: You are an expert at using alchemical items. Through experimentation, research, and your careful study of the art of alchemy, you have learned to make the most of items such as alchemist's fire. You gain access to the following three tactics, of which you can choose ONE to use, once per combat. You do not have to buy these items, it is understood you have these items on you if you take this skill.
Prerequisite: Alchemy, Emerald Rank

Distracting Blast: If you throw a thunderstone at the area around a targeted opponent, you can disrupt his actions. The sudden bang from the stone's detonation ruins your foe's concentration, spoiling his attack or his attempt to cast a spell. If the target of this blast was casting a spell when you threw the thunderstone, he must make DC15 Intelligence Check. If he fails this check, his spell is ruined. If the target was not casting a spell, he must make a Willpower save of DC15 or take a -2 penalty on strike rolls, checks, and saves until the beginning of your next turn.

Fiery Blaze: To use this tactic, you must first strike a creature with a container of lantern oil or alchemist's fire with a ranged attack. On your next turn, you must strike the creature with a spell or weapon attack that deals fire damage. If you do so, the creature takes an extra 1d6 points of fire damage and catches on fire if it is not already in flames.

Tanglefoot Defense: By tearing open a tanglefoot bag and spreading its contents across an area, you can create a vexing barrier that hinders an opponent's approach. Using your turn in combat, you can transform a 10 foot area of clear terrain into difficult terrain through the use of a tanglefoot bag. This effect persists for one full combat, or 10 minutes before the tanglefoot bag loses its potency. Any creature moving through this area loses -2 to their Quickness.

Mage's Charge : Once per day, a mage may designate one willing creature as her charge. She becomes aware of the status of that charge (hit points, wounds, effects, location, etc) at all times as long as they are on the same plane as the mage. She may cast any one beneficial spell such as defense, buffs, etc on that charge during combat and it does not count against her allowance of spells per combat. The creature remains her charge until a new one is designated, or the mage ends the designation.
Prerequisites: Mage, Emerald Rank
(V - Magical Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Mage Hand: You point your finger at an object and can lift it or make it move at will from a distance as long as it is within 15 feet and weighs less than 5 lbs. Please work with the DM on quests.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Mage's Intuition : You are highly sensitive to magic and changes in a person's demeanor when they are using magic. No creature or humanoid can conceal their spellcasting from you. You may not know what spell is being cast, but you are completely aware of who is casting any spell. If the target has Concealed Spellcasting, then whoever is highest ranks has their skill win out. A Topaz with Mage's Intuition will not be able to detect that a Sapphire Psion cast a spell, just as an Amber Black Mage will easily see the fireball came from the Crystal Spellborn's path despite their attempts to hide it. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Arcane Class (Primary)

Magical Affinity : You have innate or learned magic ability. You cannot use magic in OH without this skill.
(R)

Magical Appraisal : You can judge the usefulness of magical items with ease, allowing you to know it's worth and properties. If asked to roll for information, this gives you a +5 on Appraise checks for magical items.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Magical Resistance: You are resistant to magics and gain a +1 to all magical saves against registered spells at the time of skill selection. This skill grows as you do; +2 at Amber Rank, +3 at Ruby, +4 at Diamond. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic affinity, or approved race
(R)

Majesty: The first trick a good king learns is how to impress his subjects. By employing the ancient right of command, any werelion may demand respect and expect to get it. You cannot force them to do anything against their alignment or kill themselves. If you pass an Intimidation check against a subject, they remain subdued for the entire time the werelion is in their presence. This is an out-of-combat skill. Other werelions are immune to its effects.
Prerequisite: Werelion, or Lion Beastfolk
(R)

Make Me Last: This skill is for the calculating mind,or just someone who is overly cautious, that does not want to jump into the fray without having a battle plan in mind. This way he can benefit from having seen everyone's moves and make the best one for himself. A person who uses this skill takes the very last place on the scoreboard.
Prerequisites: Can't have any skills that boost your initiative or the Ponderous Flaw
FLAVOR

Malediction : This allows a cleric to attack two good aligned opponents in one round, once per combat. The cleric may choose to make both attacks on the same target if they so desire.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Non-good alignment
COMBAT

Malicious Embrace : A charmer can drain a victim of life energy through physical contact, usually in the form of a kiss. If the target is not willing to be kissed, then the charmer must initiate a grapple per grappling rules. This skill allows the charmer to drain half their Charisma bonus in hit points from the target each round that a grapple remains in effect. The hit points drained are given to the charmer.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Manipulate Probability: A number of times per day equal to 1+INT bonus, you may roll 5d4 in the place of a d20 for a skill check, save, or strike.

Many Shot : Once per combat, a crossbow or bow user may shoot two arrows at a time, allowing you to double your weapon dice roll. If for instance, you rolled a 1d5 and got a 5, you'd be able to take 10 dmg from that weapon.
Prerequisite: Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Mark of the Spirit Walker: This RARE tattoo allows for the mystic to become a spirit themselves and possess the body of another. The mystic rolls a 1d20 + Int bonus v.s. Target's 1d20 + willpower. If the mystic wins they possess the target and are able to use the body and skills of the body as if they were their own. The mystic may not however use their own skills or spells. If the possessed foe dies the mystic returns to their own corporeal form. This lasts for duration of adventure.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Marksman's Wager : This skill MUST be stated before you roll Strike. It can be used as many times as your Charisma Bonus during one combat. If you hit your target, you gain 5 temporary hit points that last until the end of combat, but if you miss your target, you immediately lose 10 hit points for the remainder of combat.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Martyr : This ability allows the cleric or monk to draw onto themselves, any condition (ie: disease, illness, curse) from a single target. This ability can only be used once every 24 hours. This ability can be used even if the monk or cleric possesses an ability that prevents them from being able to contract diseases, gives them immunities and the like. If successful, all conditions and the requirements to the conditions (such as having to be healed in a certain amount of time or a curse not fading until a certain action is done or a amount of time has passed). This ability cannot be used on those affected with vampirism and can only be used on those infected with Lycanthropy if the infection is recent (within 24 hours) and before the first change.
Prerequisites: Priest (Primary) or Monk (Primary)

Mask of Gentility : You cunningly hide your true motives and nature behind a facade of camaraderie and gentility. No mage or psion or magic item is able to tell your true alignment or nature unless you wish them to know.
Prerequisites: Evil Alignment
FLAVOR
(R)

Mask of the Ancestors: Carved with symbols of death, this mask is shaped like a skull. A mask of the ancestors marks the mystic as one who seeks the guidance of ancestral spirits. These spirits share their wisdom with the mystic. Gain a +3 to any Knowledge (History) rolls, and this allows the mystic to seek the answers to any puzzle or riddle they may face, once per day. Work with the DM for the information you gain.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary or Secondary)
NOTE: A mystic may only have ONE mask skill chosen at any given time.
FLAVOR

Mask of the Mind: Any skills or loot items that determine your alignment will reveal you to be neutral, and detect magic reveals you to be non-magical and non-psionic regardless of your true nature.This can be suppressed to reveal your actual characteristics. This only masks the psion, not any items you hold.
Prerequisties: Psion, Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Mask of the Elements: This mask is carved in abstract patterns, sometimes with exaggerated human features, sometimes entirely unrecognizable. The mystics who turn to the elemental spirits are further removed from the world around them than others of their profession. It is also said this estrangement grants them special insight. This mask gives a +3 to Knowledge (Arcana) rolls, and allows them to ignore one type of difficult terrain per adventure, so they do not have to make any checks to react normally upon the terrain such as ice, mountainous, sandy terrain.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary or Secondary)
NOTE: A mystic may only have ONE mask skill chosen at any given time.
FLAVOR

Mask of the Wild: This mask is usually carved in an abstract representation of an animal the mystic treats as his totem creature. This marks the mystic as one who looks to spirit animals for guidance, and who is closer to nature. This mask gives you a +3 to any Knowledge (Nature) rolls, and once per combat you may use the power of the mask to gain temporary hit points for the remainder of combat equal to your Endurance Trait Bonus.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary or Secondary)
NOTE: A mystic may only have ONE mask skill chosen at any given time.
FLAVOR

Master Astrologer: An individual that is fascinated with the patterns of stars, the moon, the sun and planets becomes a devotee to the study of astrology and it's influence upon the cosmos. You may be so fascinated by astrology that you decide you wish to learn more, and focus on certain aspects of astrology, or perhaps astrology as a whole in your roleplaying. While the surface of astrology is in the power of your birth and the time of which you are born, there is a world underlying in reading the universe and the many stars in the sky that which have already paved paths and fates awaiting the crowds. A master astrologist not only can read these paths, but can also influence change in these paths and come into the mysticism of the many celestial bodies which encompass the vast universe. As a Master Astrologer, you may choose from various archetypes and paths. See Cosmology for more information.
Prerequisites: Emerald Ranked, Must have Birthday Registered

Master at Arms : The fighter has become so adept in combat that they have fought with nearly every weapon of the same type as their fighter's weapon (light, one-handed, two-handed, ranged), enabling them to pick up any weapon of that type and know how to use it to brutal and lethal precision. This allows the fighter to treat any weapon of the same type to be counted as their Fighter's Weapon, gaining the bonus for it. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Fighter Profession, Emerald Rank, Reputation 15

Master at Arms, Improved : The skilled fighter is now able to pick up any weapon of any type and treat it as their Fighter's Weapon with all bonuses associated with their chosen weapon. This skill replaces "Master at Arms" in your skill list when the Fighter meets the prerequisites. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Master at Arms Skill, Fighter Profession (Primary), Ruby Rank, Reputation 25

Master of Fear : While you are not completely without fear, you have learned to manipulate your own fear and the fear of others as a tool. At Sapphire, you are able to use your own Fear to power your spells. When you are Shaken, you gain a +1 to your spell DC's, when you are Frightened a +2 to the DC's, and when you are Terrified a +3. At Emerald, you may choose to cast any one spell during combat with an added effect of Fear as long as the spell has a visual component such as a fireball, illusions, summons, etc. The target (or targets) of your spell must make a separate willpower save against the DC of that spell, if they fail they are Shaken for as many rounds as your Charisma Bonus. At Ruby, you may choose to delay the effects of Fear upon you for up to as many rounds as your Charisma Bonus.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class (Primary), You cannot have the Fearless Skill, Sapphire Rank

Master of Four Winds : The Monk's breath of life is carried on the winds of fate. At this rank, if the monk is restored to life, he doesn't lose a rezz for doing so, nor does he lose xp or dice. This can be used 1/week.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary) Only, Ruby Rank

Master of Life and Death: A white necromancer has mastered life and death, and heals 1 point every round. If he is brought below 0hp, once per week, he automatically stabilizes to one point of death (i.e. 29/30).
Prerequisites: Black Mage (Primary), Lore of Life and Death Skill, Ruby Rank

Master of Manipulation: Your words are your weapons. You confuse others with your speech, luring them into giving up vital secrets and leaving them dumbfounded with your carefully constructed, conversational static. This skill grants two new uses for Diplomacy. You must share a language with a creature to use these options against it. Neither ability functions during combat.
Prerequisite: CHA 8, Any skill that boosts Diplomacy

Captivating Speech: You can distract a creature with your compelling delivery and witticisms. With a successful opposed Diplomacy check, you can impose a -4 penalty on any check the target would use Perception so long as you continue speaking (such as Spot, Listen, Insight). You can affect a number of targets equal to 1 + your CHA bonus, as long as they are all within 20 feet. This can be used once per adventure.

Trap of Words: If a creature attempts and fails to successfully use Bluff to lie to you, you skillfully maneuver the conversation to confuse the target or trick him into letting slip a vital clue. After succeeding on your Insight check, you can then engage the target in conversation for at least 1 minute. At the end of this time, make a Diplomacy check opposed by the target's Bluff check. If you succeed, the target inadvertently reveals his lie and the reason behind it. This can be used once per adventure.

Master of Poisons : Your prowess with poisons is legendary. You cannot poison yourself, even if you roll a Critical Fail on your strike using poisons. You are able to apply poisons as a quick action, enabling you to make an attack the same round your poison is applied instead of taking up a turn to apply poisons. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Poisonmaking and Use

Master of Terror : This builds upon the Master of Fear skill, enabling you to effect even those who are immune to fear, or have the Fearless skill. All DC's while you are Shaken, Frightened or Terrified increases by +1, for instance if you are Terrified your DC is now +4. Once per combat, you my reflect any fear effect from which you've passed your save against back to the originator of the effect, and still gain the benefits of that effect.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class (Primary), Master of Fear Skill, Obsidian Rank

Master Tattoo Artist: An inkantationist can take this skill, enabling them to tattoo compact tattoos. This allows them to ink two tattoos in one slot (usually the body modification slot) per person as long as they do not do the same thing. Even if they already had a tattoo, a second tattoo can be done in the same slot by someone with this skill. You are able to refresh the ink of any tattoo, causing any faded mundane tattoo to brighten and look new. You also gain the ability to completely remove any tattoo, mundane or magical.
Prerequisite: Craft Magic Item: Inkantation

Mediator's Ear: By Emerald Rank, a druid is respected for her neutrality and even-handed attitude toward all people as well as other living things. She quickly develops some sense for others' attitudes, much as she does with animals. Once per adventure, she may use this skill to calm a situation that otherwise is hostile and dangerous. This lasts for as many minutes as the druid's Charisma bonus.
Prerequisite: Druid, Emerald Rank
(V-Emerald Rank)
FLAVOR

Mental Juggernaut: Once per combat, you may use your psionic focus to ignore the consequences of a failed save against any psionic skill, psi-like ability, or other psionic or magical effect that would otherwise daze or stun you. You can decide to use this skill after you have rolled and determined the potential outcome of your roll.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Mental Precision: You empty your mind of all distracting emotion, becoming an instrument of deadly precision. On your first attack in any one combat, you may add an extra +5 to your Strike. You are so intent on a precise hit to your target, that you cannot defend yourself with ease, causing you to have a Defense DC10 for the round you use this skill.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Merciful Spell : Your spell inflicts non-lethal damage instead of lethal, so that if they meet or exceed their hit points they are knocked out instead of killed.
Prerequisite: Magical Affinity
COMBAT

Merciful Attack : Your attack deals non-lethal damage instead of lethal, so that if they meet or exceed their hit points they are knocked out instead of killed.
COMBAT
(CC)

Merciless Butcher: Your talent for slaughter lets you dispatch helpless opponents before they can recover. Even if it is not your turn, if an opponent that you have engaged in combat becomes stunned or helpless in any way, you may attempt a free attack against them immediately. This may be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Non-good, cannot have Code of Honor flaw.
COMBAT

Mercy: A healer can select one mercy per gemstone rank beginning at Topaz, please mark this clearly on your dossier. Each mercy adds an effect to the healer's ability to heal. Whenever the healer expends healing points to heal damage to one target, the target also receives the additional effect from whatever mercy the healer chooses to use. You may only use each of your mercies once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Healing Affinity, Topaz Rank

You may choose from the following mercies, the rank needed for each is marked:
Remove Stun (Topaz)
Remove Fatigue (Topaz)
Remove Shaken (Topaz)
Remove Nausea (Amber)
Remove Curse (Amber)
Remove Frightened (Amber)
Remove Disease (Sapphire)
Remove Mundane Poison (Sapphire)
Remove Blindness (Sapphire)
Remove Fear-Stricken (Emerald)
Remove Magical Poison (Emerald)
Remove Sickened (Emerald)
Remove Exhaustion (Ruby)
Remove Paralyzation (Ruby)
Remove Hit Point Debuff (Ruby)
Remove Trait Drain (Obsidian)
Remove Petrification (Obsidian)
Regrow Lost Limb (Obsidian)

Metal Rending : Whenever you attack using magic, if your target is made of metal or wearing medium or heavy metal armor, you can cause their metal armor to rend and twist, doing an extra 1d damage to the target once per combat.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), Topaz Rank
COMBAT = Extra 1d

Metallic Wings : Your wings become metallic, giving you a wing attack of 1d extra combat dice, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Celestial Wings, Angelic Flesh
COMBAT

Meteor Shot: You are able, once per combat, to fire an arrow towards an enemy before they even have a chance to notice you are aiming at them. Their Defense DC is 10, and they may not attempt any action such as an evade, reflect, counterattack against the shot as they are completely unprepared. They may use any defenses such as armor.
Prerequisites: Ranger, Quickness of 10, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - QCK 10, Sapphire Rank)

Midas Touch : Your noble standing and reputation is such that allows you to gain double gold for any mission or quest you accomplish, once per day.
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary)

Mindblade : A psion or spellborn can create a semisolid blade composed of psychic energy distilled from his own mind. The blade is identical in all ways (except visually) to a longsword and is wielded in one hand. The wielder may decide what trait to use with this blade, whether INT for magic, or STR or QCK (Dex Fighter) for it being a weapon. If you dual wield, the trait for both weapons is decided by the main weapon. In other words, you cannot use STR for dmg for one, and INT for damage for the other. The blade deals 1d6 points of damage upon creation, but the damage increases with your rank. This is an innate skill.
        Crystal, Topaz: 1d6
        Amber: 1d7
        Sapphire: 1d8
        Emerald: 1d9
        Ruby: 1d10
        Obsidian: 1d11
        Diamond: 1d12
Prerequisite: Psion or Spellborn
COMBAT
(V - Psionic Affinity)

Mindblade Enhancement : At Amber rank, a psion gains the ability to enhance his mind blade as one would go about enhancing a normal weapon. This allows them to add Five Points of enchantments to the mindblade in whatever fashion that is allowed for normal weapons. Your mindblade at this time can also be paragoned. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Psion or Spellborn, Amber Rank, Mindblade Skill
(V - Psionic Affinity, Mindblade Skill, Amber Rank)

Mind Blank: When a bloodhound reaches this rank, he gains protection from all devices and spells that detect, influence or read emotions or thoughts. This power protects against all mind-affecting spells and effects as well as information gathering by divination spells or effects including scrying or even empathy, unless being done by someone of a higher dice rank than the bloodhound.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Obsidian Rank
FLAVOR

Mind Cleave: If you deal a creature enough damage to make it fall (typically by dropping it to below 0 hit points or killing it) with your mindblade, you drain off a portion of the creature's liberated energy of consciousness, which adds to your hit points temporarily, for the remainder of the adventure. Roll a 1d6 to determine how many extra hit points you glean from the kill.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary), Mindblade Skill
COMBAT

Mind Over Body: You are able to use your Intelligence modifier to add to your hit points instead of your Endurance modifier. This is an innate skill.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Miracle Healer : A healer is able to heal even the worst of the wounded including the maimed, blind, deaf; even able to assist in the regrowing of lost limbs. They are unable to heal afflictions that someone was born with, such as birth defects that cause blindness, or a withered limb.
Healer (Primary) AND Emerald Rank

Misfortune : A spellborn, at any time, can force a creature (friend or foe) within 30 feet to reroll any one d20 roll that it has just made before the results of the roll are revealed. The creature must take the result of the reroll, even if it's worse than the original roll. Once a creature has suffered from your misfortune, it cannot be the target of this skill again for 1 day.
Prerequisites: Spellborn, Fortune Skill, Emerald Rank
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Fortune Skill, Emerald Rank)

Mitigate Suffering : This allows a healer to heal a person's loss of hit points, or dice sides once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary) Only, Emerald Rank

Modified Engineering: You have taken the world of engineered crafting to new heights. You have now gained the ability to modify existing schematics to make them more powerful and stronger in their uses.
Prerequisite: Engineering Knack

Mojo Bond: You may link any creature with which you've established a Voodoo Curse upon, with a second enemy. Once per combat, anything that is done to the target of the Voodoo Curse also happens to the chosen second enemy that you've linked to your target. If your target gets a save, and is successful, then the second enemy is saved as well but if your target fails his save, if one is required, the linked enemy is considered to have failed as well.
Prerequisites: Shaman (Primary), Emerald Rank

Momentary Disjunction: This allows a Bloodhound to temporarily remove the spellcasting capability of their Mark. How many rounds of Disjunction you can cause per combat is done by gemstone rank: Crystal and Topaz: 1 round, Amber and Sapphire: 2 rounds, Emerald and Ruby: 3 rounds, Obsidian: 4 rounds, Diamond: 5 rounds. You may split this up as you like, as long as you do not exceed the total number of rounds you are allowed.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound (Primary), Witch-Hunt Skill, Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Moneybags: It allows the noble to commit a crime and get off scott free. The charge to be paid depending upon the crime and the witnesses present. (100 gp petty theft, 200 assault, etc., etc., even possible to pay off murder, DM holds end verdict.)
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

Moonlight Summons : Your summoned minions are infused with the power of the moon. Any creature you summon with your Creature Summons spells sheds light akin to moonlight and any natural weapons are treated as silver weapons.
Prerequisites: Mage or Mystic
(V - Magical Affinity)

Moral Radiance : Once per adventure, you may grant all good-aligned allies including yourself within a 60 foot radius a +2 sacred bonus on Willpower saving throws for as many rounds as your Charisma bonus.
Prerequisite: Paladin or Priest
(V)

Mother Earth's Hand : This allows a druid to call to mother earth and cause a protective shield of earth, wood, and/or stone to rise up and around a target or themself, negating all damage done to that target or self once per combat.
Prerequisite: Druid, Amber Rank
DEFENSE
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank)

Mountain Hoof : The Mountain Hoof skill allows a rider to safely ride his mount at extremely steep angles, up to a 60 degree slope, without taking any Ride checks. This is a constant skill.
FLAVOR
(CC - Mount or Combat Mount Profession)

Mounted Archery: You take no penalty for using a ranged weapon while on your mount. Without this skill, if you use a ranged weapon while mounted, you take a -2 to your ranged strike while riding. This is an innate skill.

Mounted Combat : You can fight melee while astride your mount and do not need to take any checks involved in doing so. Without this skill, if you fight while mounted, you must make a Ride check after each attack. Failure means you take the damage instead of your opponent as you fall off your horse, possibly onto your own blade! This is an innate skill.

Mounted Dodge: Once per combat you and your mount may avoid one incoming attack, as long as you are on your mount.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat
DEFENSE - Evade
(CC - Combat Mount Profession)

Mounted Mastery : You blend horsemanship skills from varying traditions into a seamless mounted combat technique. While mounted, you gain a +2 to Damage against your foes with whatever weapon you choose to use. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Mounted Onslaught : You and your mount can shatter an enemy’s line with your unyielding assault. On your turn, you may overrun 1d4 enemies on your mount. Each enemy you are attempting to overrun is given a save of 1d20+Quickness against the DC10 + Gemstone Level (so at Topaz Rank, the DC would be 12). Those failing their save are knocked prone and must take one round to reorient themselves again. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(CC - Combat Mount Profession)

Multicultural: You gain a +3 to Diplomacy Checks to alter the attitude toward you of a member of the races which you speak their language.
Prerequisites: You must be able to speak the racial language, such as if you speak Elvish, you gain +3 Diplomacy towards elves.
FLAVOR

Multiple Marks: Starting at Sapphire rank, you may have two marks, at Ruby three marks, and at Obsidian you may have a total of four marks at any given time. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound, Sapphire Rank

Multitalented Mastery: Both your primary and secondary professions are now considered "Primary" allowing you to take skills for Primary professions only.
Prerequisite: Obsidian Rank

Muscle Reactions: Your muscles are always tense, ready to start swinging. You may add your Strength (STR) bonus to your initiative checks in addition to anything else you are allowed to use such as Quickness (QCK) and Lightning Initiative. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: STR 6
FLAVOR

Music of the Planes: You can create discordant, insane sounds. This music is particularly effective against aberrations, and can sicken them, or fill them with lethargy.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (Planes), Bard Profession
COMBAT

Lull Aberration: You must target a single aberration within 30 feet with this ability. A targeted aberration must make a Willpower save (DC 10 + bard's CHA bonus) or become lethargic and partially hypnotized by the discordant sounds of your performance. Affected aberrations are slowed, causing them to lose their Quickness bonus for one round, and putting their Defense DC to 10. This can be used once per combat.

Sicken Aberration : Any aberration within a 30-foot spread centered on you must make an Endurance saving throw (DC 10 + Bard's CHA bonus) or become sickened for as many rounds as equal to your CHA bonus. This can be used once per adventure.

Mystic Tattoo : A Mystic gains the ability to inscribe ancient and tribal symbols on their body to gain more power in their spellcasting. Their first tattoo binds a familiar to them of their choice. If their familiar dies, they will find it reborn the next morning. See the skill "Familiar" as well as "Animal Companion" for more information on building your mystic familiar. This skill takes the place of Animal Companion, and Familiar skills, you may not take either of those skills with this skill.
Prerequisite: Mystic
(V - Magical Affinity)

Nailed It : The charmer’s finely manicured fingernails can be extended and hardened to form sharp claws that deal devastating damage to her opponents. These claws allow the Charmer to roll 1d4 weapon damage for each hand during combat, as long as the hand is not holding anything else. This is considered a natural weapon, but cannot be enchanted in any way.
Prerequisite: Charmer
COMBAT
(V)

Native Terrain : You have an extraordinary familiarity with one environment: desert, jungle, forest, city, sea, plains, mountains, underground, hills, etc. When within his native terrain, then all rolls receive a +1 bonus. This applies to strike, damage, saves, magic, etc. You must state what your terrain is when you choose this skill. This may be taken more than once, with a new terrain chosen each time. This is a constant skill.
(CC)
(R)

Natural Ambience : A bard can use music to mask his allies' movement behind a cover of noises appropriate for the environment. This song affects all allies within hearing range, and as long as the bard is playing the group remains hidden and unheard. As soon as an attack is made, it negates the effect.
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)
FLAVOR

Natural Spell: While shapeshifted, you are able to use and cast your spells as normal, even if you usually need verbal components. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Druid or Shapeshifting Skill
FLAVOR

Nature's Balance: Touching an ally, you concentrate, imagining a light flowing from your body into his. As you do so, a blue glow flickers to life in the center of your chest, and it travels down your arm into his form, granting him
a portion of your power. You take up to a –4 penalty to your choice of Strength, Quickness, Endurance or Willpower and your subject gains an equivalent bonus to the same trait score. This lasts as long as the druid wishes. This skill caps at 12, you cannot boost your target over 12 trait points.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Nature's Guard : The shaman's/mystic's staff can be used for defense as well. Using his staff as a defensive object, he may gain a +3 to mundane defense throughout combat. At Emerald, the defense improves to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6 DEF. This is a constant skill, but only when actively using a staff.
Prerequisite: Shaman or Mystic
DEFENSE
(V)

Neckbreaker: During a grapple, with a quick jerk, you snap an enemy NPC's neck. If you have an opponent your size or smaller grappled, you may wrench that opponent's neck and roll an extra 1d of your combat dice. This is in addition to anything you are allowed for a grapple. This damage cannot be considered nonlethal. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Jawbreaker
COMBAT

Necrotic Touch: Using a small amount of your life force, you sheath your hand in crackling black flames, dealing 1d5 extra points of negative energy damage to a living creature during your attack, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Black Mage
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity)

Neutralize Poison/Venom : The target creature has all traces of poison removed from their system.
Prerequisite: Healer OR Druid
(V)

Nightcaller: Whenever you cast a spell, you may choose to infuse the spell with negative energy, which always does double damage to good aligned creatures, regardless of what else they are weak to.
Prequisites: Mage, Black Mage
(V - Magical Affinity)

Nightmarish Mind: You are resistant to madness, and gain a +3 to all rolls against madness or insanity spells, skills or effects.
Prerequisites: Fearless Skill
FLAVOR

Nimble Feet : You can run across treacherous surfaces with ease. Once per adventure you can use this skill to cross a treacherous surface without taking an Acrobatics check.
Prerequisite: Acrobatic Skill
FLAVOR
(CC - Acrobatic)
(R)

Nine Inch Nails : This skill causes the charmer's "Nailed It" to now attack at 2d4/2d4, and to act as if they were made out of adamantine, giving it a natural +5 to any Strength Checks to break things made using the nails.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Nailed It Skill, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Noble Bearing : When a noble appears on the field and presents himself as a leader, it inspires himself and his followers, soldiers, hirelings, or other loyal subjects who can see and hear him. The noble must present himself for one round, standing tall and proud and shouting directions and encouragement for this to take effect for the remainder of combat. At Amber Rank, those that look to him for guidance gain a +1 to defense, attack, and willpower rolls against fear and mind effects. At Emerald, gain a +2, and at Obsidian gain a +3, at Diamond +4.
Prerequisite: Noble, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)

Noble Guard : A Paladin may use this skill at any time during combat, and allows the Paladin to take half of all physical, non-magical damage dealt to an ally. The Paladin is welcome to use any armor they may have to absorb as much of the damage as they can, but they cannot use another skill such as an evade or reflect while using this skill. At Crystal, Topaz and Amber you may use this once per combat. At Sapphire and Emerald, you may use it twice. At Ruby and Obsidian, you may use it up to three times per combat. At Diamond, four times per combat.
Prerequisite: Paladin
DEFENSE
(V)

Noblesse Oblige: The noble knows that his position imposes certain obligations towards his lesser companions. The noble may grant any passed save he's made to any one ally within 60 feet. At Ruby, you may grant your passed save to two allies per adventure, at Obsidian, to three allies per adventure, at Diamond, to four allies per adventure.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary), Emerald Rank

No Flies On Me : Some people things just never seem to stick to. Scandal passes them by, their infidelities are never found out and no matter what mud they wallow in they always emerge smelling of roses. The charmer has managed to cultivate, or be born with, this ability and no matter what filth he/she gets involved in or what scandals he/she causes somehow the blame and the muss will just slip off them. Charmers with this ability cannot be held accountable for their seductive actions including being taken to court for adultery in kingdoms where it is illegal.
Prerequisite: Charmer
(V)
FLAVOR

None Shall Fall : You are able to heal your entire group of allies by mere inspirational command, healing them all for 5 points and allowing all to make a new save to resist poisons if they've failed one during combat. A successful save cures the poison. This healing is not positive energy based, it merely causes their own bodies to self-heal, therefore can heal even undead creatures.
Prerequisite: Healer, Priest, or Paladin
(V)

None Shall Pass: This allows you to cause up to three opponents to focus solely on you for the next round of combat. You roll a 1d20 Intimidate Check against their 1d20 Check (they may add Strength or Willpower). If they fail, they may only attack you for the next round of combat regardless if they are attacked by other allies during that round.
Prerequisites: Paladin or Vindicator, Amber Rank
COMBAT

No Rest: A bloodhound of this level is ceaseless in his pursuit. As long as he has a designated mark, he is immune to fear, fatigue, and exhaustion. He also gains 5 more hit points while in active pursuit of his designated mark.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Obsidian Rank
FLAVOR

Not One or the Other : You have removed yourself from your heritage so thoroughly that even magic does not recognize you. You are not considered either of your half races, in regards to bane weapons, or harmful spells, effects or even special poisons that target one of the races. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: A halfie race
FLAVOR
(R)

Not So Fast : A ranger is able to ascertain the situation before him so quickly at times that he notices when an enemy is about to take an action that may prove detrimental to the outcome of combat. Once per combat, a ranger may shoot an item out of an enemy's hand before they are able to use it. This is ultimately up to the DM, but the types of things that can be shot out of an enemy's hand are wands, potions, traps, engineering schematics, alchemical items and the like. It does not work on weapons or armor.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

No Way Out: When an enemy attempts to escape, you may make a free action even if it is not your turn to follow and make an attack. This does not work if they have a skill that allows them to get away without being stopped such as Live to Fight Another Day.
Prerequisite: Combat Class, Devout Class, or Bloodhound
(V)

Nulling Attack: Opponents that are dealt surprise damage by a thief adept using Surprise Strike are affected by a targeted null magic effect, causing them to be unable to use any magic, spells, or magical items for one round of combat.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Oaken Strength : Like the mighty oak in the heart of the forest, you have an undeniable strength. As the roots of the tree sink into the earth, your determination flows deep into your body. Able to bring out a raw strength and deliver it upon those that would stand against you. Once per combat you may roll your combat dice twice.
Prerequisite: Ranger Profession (Primary) & Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Oath of Annihilation : Due to your steadfast determination to end the lives of your god's enemies you have been given the ability to ignore the defenses of your prey. Once per combat, you may strike a target and disregard their defense. You may not deal non-lethal damage in this way through any means, even using skills.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary), Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Off-Hand Tactics: Tradition states that an empty hand on the battlefield is a wasted hand. Not so! During combat, if you have a free hand you can attempt a variety of off-hand tactics that manipulate opponents and control the battlefield. Off-hand tactics are largely improvised, and sometimes are called underhanded tactics because such tactics are considered dirty. This opinion has not stopped even paladins from occasionally using off-hand tactics to even the odds. You may choose to use only one of these tactics in combat, once.
COMBAT

EAR SLAP: As an off-hand attack, you smack your target in the ear on the side of the helmet. If your Strike is successful, your target is deafened for 1 round. You cannot ear slap a creature more than two size categories larger or smaller than you. Creatures with no discernible anatomy are immune to ear slap.

EYE GOUGE: As an off-hand attack, you rake your opponent’s eyes. If your Strike is successful, your target is blinded for 1 round, and cannot make attacks unless they have blindfight. You cannot eye gouge a creature more than two size categories larger or smaller than you. Creatures with no discernible anatomy are immune to eye gouge.

GRAB AND STAB: As an off-hand attack, you pull your target towards your waiting blade. If your strike is successful, you may add in half your Strength (or QCK if you are using Dexterous Fighter) as additional damage. You cannot grab and stab a creature more than two size categories larger or smaller than you.

GRASP: As an off-hand attack, you grab hold of your opponent’s armor, clothes, or body, limiting how and where it can move. If your Strike is successful, your opponent cannot leave your natural reach. You maintain this grasp as your attack action until either you release your opponent or your target breaks free from your grasp. Every round your opponent may make an Escape Check of DC10 + Your Strength. You and your target continue to act normally otherwise. You are not considered grappled when grasping.

HEART PUNCH: As an off-hand attack, you aim to stop your opponent’s heart with a punch in the chest. If your Strike is successful, your target is dazed for 1 round. Creatures with no discernible anatomy are immune to heart punch.

SMACK: As an off-hand attack, you slap your opponent’s face. If your Strike is successful, your opponent suffers a -2 Strike penalty to attack anyone other than you on its next turn. Smack is a mind-affecting effect.

Often Overlooked: Those of shorter statures couldn't stand out in a crowd if they tried. This skill provides a +3 to all stealth type checks when in a crowd of creatures that are taller than yourself. You are also incognito as long as you remain within the crowd.
Requirement: Gnome, Halfling or any small or tiny race
(R)

Old Salt : You are an old hand at shipboard life, having mastered the myriad skills that are required of the experienced sailor. You cannot get seasick. Additionally, you have an eye for the weather. You gain a +1 to Athletics and Acrobatics, a +2 to Use Rope (Use Mundane), and are able to tell what the weather will be like up to 2 days ahead.
FLAVOR

Omniscient Whispers : Once per week, receive the answer to any simple question through using the memories of your past lives. The question must be a yes or no question, work with the DM or storyline leader in order to get the answer.
Prerequisite: Daeva Race
FLAVOR
(R)

One-Handed Expert: You are an expert at hitting hard and powerful blows to your enemies. You may now double your damage trait to every attack you make. This replaces One-Handed Focus in your skill list. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: One-Handed Focus, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

One-Handed Focus: You have become a master of using only a one-handed weapon and you may now add in half your damage trait bonus to every attack you make. You may use a shield for defense in your off-hand, but it cannot be used as a weapon with this skill. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: You must only use a one-handed or light weapon.
COMBAT

One More Thing: Master of a sharp tongue and nimble action the Swashbuckler always seems to have just one final card up their sleeve. At the end of one round the Swashbuckler takes a mass of hidden throwing knives and sweeps their arm sending a final surprise attack. The Swashbuckler rolls ONE strike roll v.s. DC of ALL enemies on board, if hit does only 1d4 + Quickness Trait in damage. No defense (armor & items) allowed against this damage, but skills & spells such as evades are allowed.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

One Weapon Boon: You have chosen to wield only ONE weapon (whatever that may be, such as a two-handed weapon, a two handed tech, two handed invo/evoc, or a one-handed weapon/tech/invoc/evoc causing you to only be able to enchant your primary weapon, tech, invoc or evoc double what is normally allowed. This allows you to enchant that ONE weapon that is normally allowed only five, for a total of 10 enchantment points. If it is an invoc/evoc, then that ONE that is normally allowed three, is now allowed six points of enchantment. The extra enchantment points only work if that is the only damage dealing weapon/tech/invoc/evoc of any sort or flavor you are using. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: No skills that allow you to use more than one weapon, wand, tech, invoc, evoc, wand etc.

One with Spirit : A shaman often comes into contact with spirits of both his ancestors, predecessors as well as bad spirits which haunt the material world. As a result, the shaman learns to become one with his ethereal form, allowing his own mundane form to come into contact with supernatural beings lacking a physical form such as ghosts as if they were solid, material beings. All weapons wielded and attacks made by the shaman are able to hit any incorporeal creature, and all defenses count against incorporeal creature's attacks.
Prerequisite: Shaman
COMBAT
(V)

One With Wood: You can get more damage out of wooden weapons.You gain a +2 damage when using a weapon that is made of mostly wood (club, quarterstaff, greatclub, longbow, shortbow, or weapon made of special materials, such as darkwood.) This is a constant skill.

Only Mostly Dead : A healer may perform a resurrection once per week, using their healing talents and any medic supplies they deem necessary, and allow the target to not lose a rezz.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary), Emerald Rank

Onslaught : A ranger of this rank and skill is a force to behold, and those who are targetted by him stand little chance as he sends arrows one after the other in a barrage against his enemies. The first attack rolled when using this skill is treated as normal. After strike and damage is rolled, continue to attack until miss is rolled, each attack adding a -2 to Strike. So, if you attack a second time, -2 Strike. Third time, -4 to Strike. Fourth time, -6 to Strike, and so on. No other skills allowed to be used, only tech, strength, class bonuses, and innate skills apply to any attacks after the first.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Opening Act : A bard knows quite well they need to jump on opportunities when they arise. This enables a bard to take first spot on the scoreboard, or gives them a +5 to Initiative Rolls when needed.
Prerequisite: Bard
FLAVOR
(V)

Orc Ferocity: Once per day, when a half-orc takes enough damage that he should be dead, he is able to fight onwards for one more round. At the end of the round, unless he has healed, he falls dead.
Prerequisites: Half-Orc Racial
(R)

Outrageous Attire : All swashbucklers, by law, are required to dress in a ridiculous manner, with the exception of female pirates, who must dress both ridiculous and sexy. At either rate, enemies have a hard time actually taking their garb seriously. During the first round of combat, all foes that can see the swashbuckler take a -2 to their Strike if they are targeting the swashbuckler.
Prerequisite: Swashbuckler
COMBAT
(V)

Overchannel: You burn your life force to strengthen your psionic powers. You may burn off as much of your hit points as you desire, and add that to the damage of one attack per combat. Your hit points remain lowered throughout the remainder of combat.
Prerequisites: Psion or Spellborn, Sapphire Rank
(V - Psionic Affinity, Sapphire Rank)
COMBAT

Pact of Peace: You are able to offer a defeated creature the chance to accept a binding pact of peace as a condition of its surrender. A defeated creature is a creature that is within 5 hp of death, or knocked out by non-lethal damage and awakened after combat. This is similar to a geas but rather than assigning a mission or task, you give the creature a simple set of prohibitions to protect others. Example prohibitions include "Leave this city and do not return" or "Do not attack caravans." The prohibition must be against an area no larger than 300 square miles or one specific group of people (such as a tribe or citizens of a particular city). This ability lasts 1 month per gemstone rank. The target may choose to deny the pact of peace, and face whatever consequences that may befall them (imprisonment, death, banishment, etc).
Prerequisites: Reputation of 20
FLAVOR

Paladin's Chant : A holy knight makes a chant to his deity calling forth their power to grant allies of their matching alignment a +2 defense for the remainder of that combat. This may only be once per adventure. Only one chant can be up at a time (ie: these don't stack if more than 1 paladin uses it).
Prerequisites: Paladin, AND Sapphire Rank
DEFENSE
(V - Sapphire Rank)

Paladin's Hand: Once per combat, you may use your healing points to heal one ally before you begin your attack that round. Once the healing is accomplished you may then proceed with your round as normal.
Prerequisites: Paladin, Amber Rank

Panacean Touch: Whenever a paladin expends at least 5 points of healing from her healing point pool, she may also remove poison from any person she touches, and whenever she spends at least 10 points of healing, she may remove disease from any person she touches. This is in addition to any healing that restores hit points.
Prerequisite: Paladin, Healing Affinity, Ruby Rank
(V - Healing Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Pander: Your performances favor one subject. When you begin a bardic performance that grants a bonus to multiple allies, choose one affected ally. That ally receives double the usual bonus.
Prerequisites: Bard Profession

Paragon Invocations : You are able to further enchant magical invocations to give them 2 extra dice sides, such as a (1d5) becomes (1d7). This invocation will be known as a "paragon" invocation.
Prerequisite: Craft Magic Item, Sapphire Rank

Paragon Weapons : You are gifted in the art of weaponsmithing and are able to improve weapons with up to 2 extra dice sides, such as as Rapier (1d5) will be (1d6) or (1d7). These weapons will be known as "paragon" weapons.
Note: If you have Artisan Crafting (Unarmed Techniques) you may improve unarmed attack techniques into paragon attack techniques.
Prerequisite: Artisan Crafting Skill (Weaponsmithing), Sapphire Rank

Paralyzing Palm: The monk summons forth all the skill harnessed during those countless hours of training. In a furious assault of rapid strikes, the Monk leaves their opponent stunned. Once per combat, target loses as many turns as allowed by rank. A willpower save is given every round of DC10 + the monk's quickness.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary)
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Parry : You are skilled at deflecting the attacks of your enemies. When you use this skill, you take no damage that your opponent scored upon you, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Fighter
DEFENSE - Evade
(V)

Parry Spell : You are able to reflect a regged spell back onto the magic caster, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Pass for Human : You gain a +10 to Disguise Checks to pass yourself off as a Human if DM calls for a check, otherwise you simply are good enough at disguise to pass yourself off except against those with True Seeing.
Prerequsite: Non-Human Race
FLAVOR
(R)

Patents of Nobility: These are a formalized ancestry chart that shows the direct relationships of the noble to his ancestors, thus proving his claims to titles, benefits and lands. Patents gives the noble the ability to have NPC hirelings at his beck and call, to work and fight in the noble's stead. You may use your bodyguard in one-on-one combat (such as a spar or challenge) in your place, but you may not join the one-on-one combat if you elect to use your bodyguard. You do gain any rewards for the combat (such as xp, badges, etc).
You may attend adventures with your bodyguard at your side so they can be involved in protecting you, or even send them in your place, while you reap the rewards of XP, GP and even loot when it is over. If you are physically on the mission, you may fight alongside your bodyguard, but if you choose to stand back and let your bodyguard fight be aware you may still be targeted by the enemies!
At Topaz Rank, the noble gains a Manservant or Lady's Maid (NPC) that wears the livery of the noble house and accompanies the noble at all times, able to run errands and do simple duties (non-combat).
At Sapphire Rank, the noble also gains a Bodyguard (NPC) of Sapphire Adept rank, though all armor, items and weapons must be purchased by the noble. This bodyguard is built like an NPC, and has the number of skills and traits that someone at Sapphire Rank would have. Your dossier for your Bodyguard must be approved by tesarikone before your bodyguard can be used.
At Emerald Rank, your Bodyguard (NPC) is now Emerald Adept rank. The bodyguard (or knight) bears the noble's coat of arms on his/her shield, armor or clothing.
At Ruby Rank, your Bodyguard (NPC) is now Ruby Shield rank.
At Obsidian Rank, Your Bodyguard (NPC) is now Obsidian Prime rank.
At Diamond Rank, Your Bodyguard (NPC) is now Obsidian Grand Master rank.
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Topaz Rank

Pattern of Fate : You learn the basic fortune of a creature as a symbol appears over their head that only you can see. If you see a glowing halo, you know that the person has a general good to average fortune ahead and likely will live out a normal lifespan (the creature will not die in the next few months at least). If you see a death's head symbol, you know the person has a hideous fortune ahead or soon will die. If you see a shifting orb of multicolored light, you know the creature is in a state of flux, it is impossible to tell the fate. Using this on someone that heads into danger regularly (like a soldier or adventurer) will usually turn up in flux. You cannot view your own pattern of fate. (Work with your DM for this skill.)
Prequisites: Priest, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Patron Spells : Certain types of mages, often known as witches, make powerful pacts with mysterious powers and forces who become their patron. This skill allows you to write one extra spell per dice rank that is a direct result of the power and knowledge gleaned from your Patron, and this spell also has a +2 DC. Please mark your patron spells clearly on your dossier. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Mage (Primary)

Payback's A Bitch : Once per combat, a charmer can fire a greenish black ray that does 1d6 damage, though it does not effect the target, instead the person dearest to them or someone they have actively been defending. [Note: Deciding the identity of the dearest person is a cooperative decision between the player and the DM.] On the off chance that the target has no loved one, they take the damage instead.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Magical or Psionic Affinity, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Pecunia Umbilicalia : You reach deep into mommy or daddy's pockets and get a stipend of money of d5 x 500 each month. You may roll 1d for every gemstone rank, for instance, at Crystal you roll 1d, Topaz 2d, etc. You must inform our Treasury Moderator each month so that the roll can be made, and gold placed in your account. You also gain a one-time 2500gp when you take this skill.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary or Secondary)
FLAVOR

Peerless Patrician : Once per adventure a noble can roll a check twice and take the better roll. Once per week, a noble can take a 20 on any Bluff, Diplomacy, Intimidate, Knowledge (nobility) check.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary) only, Ruby Rank

Perfect Ear : A bard can hear a song, either sung or instrumental, and is so proficient that they can sufficiently recreate it. This can be used to recreate a story that a bard hears as well.
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)
FLAVOR

Perfect Self : At this point a monk has become so in tune with their own body that they are now considered to be supernatural creatures. They no longer age, nor get sick in any way. No poison or disease (magical or mundane) affect the target at this point. If a monk with Perfect Self is killed, instead of dying you simply "fall unconscious" and appear dead for 24 mun hours. You do not lose any XP or rank, or one of your rezzes. This can be used once per 48 hours.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary), Obsidian rank

Perfect Strike : Once per combat, you may roll your Strike twice and take the best roll. If both are hits, you still may only use one of them to determine the hit.
COMBAT
(CC)

Performance : You may take this skill if you are a performer of some type, choose one. You are allowed to perform in chats, and after your performance you will roll a d50 to determine how much gold the audience tips you! Roll as many dice as you have gemstone ranks, so a Crystal would roll 1d50, a Topaz would roll 2d50, etc. You may perform up to three times every 24 hours. Some examples are: Comedy, Dance, Drama, Poetry, Erotic Dance, Instrument (flute, lute, drums, etc), Juggling, Mime, Storytelling.
Prerequisite: Bard, Charmer, Druid, Noble, Rogue, Swashbuckler, Swordmaster or Thief Adept.
(V)
FLAVOR
(CC - Supportive or Sneaky Profession)

Personal Affront : Once per combat, as a reaction, you can make a single melee attack against an adjacent enemy who has just caused you damage if you make your Strike against them.
Prerequisites: Charismatic Fighter
COMBAT - Counterattack

Pheromones : Your body produces a pleasing scent that affects creatures on a subliminal level, this is a mind-effect. Creatures capable of smelling, excluding constructs and the undead, regard you with a positive attitude if you pass your Diplomacy, Bluff or Handle Animal checks. You gain a +3 to Diplomacy, Bluff or Handle Animal checks.
Prerequisites: Race that emits pheromones.
FLAVOR
(R)

Piercing Spell: You may use this once per adventure/mission and it allows you to cast a spell needing a save without allowing the target to use their Willpower bonus to add to the d20 save.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class, Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Piercing Thought: So in tune with their own body, they are able to recognize the subtle similarities of action within another. They are able to note the faintest glimmer within an eye, a fraction of a lip thinned, the very edges of an eyebrow cocked, the inflection of voice, the pitch and tone. All the signs in both word and action that something is off with another. this grants a monk a +5 to Insight checks, and allows the monk to auto-pass one Insight check per day.
Prerequisite: Monk Only
FLAVOR

Pillar of Hope: The paladin is a pillar of hope and a champion among the people, inspiring them to be more than they can be. By giving up their action on their turn, the paladin can choose to use this skill to grant their entire party +2 against fear effects. The bonus stays in effect for as many rounds as their Charisma bonus.
Prerequisites: Paladin
(V)

Pin : This allows a Swordmaster to corner a target by making a rapid series of whirling attacks or threatening gestures, thus restricting the target's movement. This causes the target to only be able to attack the Swordmaster, and no other allies. This lasts for one round, or when the Swordmaster moves away, whichever comes first. The territory must be suitable for this to work, in other words, if you are on a vast field it would not work; an alleyway, it would.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster
COMBAT
(V)

Pincushion : When struck by arrow, bolt or dart, the brawler can ignore the first 5 points of damage from the attack, on top of any other defense he may have.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Pins and Needles : A shaman carries around a set of small, handmade pins and needles of bone, wood or metal which he himself has granted magical powers. If the shaman sets up a successful Voodoo Curse with a target then he may use his turn of combat to stick a single pin into his target’s Voodoo Doll, dealing +2 damage each round against the target creature, which bypasses all defenses. At Emerald, Ruby, and Obsidian Rank you gain the ability to stick another pin into the doll, gaining at Obsidian rank a total of +8 DMG you may make upon a person with this attack, each round until they are dead or you pull the pin out. If you have made multiple dolls, you may pin any one of those targets in the round when you gain multiple pins. No Strike or roll of any dice is needed to stick a pin in, but it takes your turn to stick a pin. Once a pin is stuck, you may do other actions on your next turn and succeeding turns.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Voodoo Curse, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Pin Up : This skill allows you to pin a target to a wall or other structure with a thrown or ranged weapon. The target must be within 5 feet of a structure or wall and wearing clothing that can be suitably pinned. You must use a weapon that can feasibly pin someone such as a dagger, knife, spear, axe, arrow etc. You must make your Ranged Strike against their Defense DC, if you do the weapon pins the target's clothing to the wall. There is no damage, and the target must take one round to pull himself free of the wall.

Pistol Whip : While it may not be a recommended use of a pistol, with the right know-how you can utilize one as an effective mace-like weapon. This allows you at any time in melee combat to use your pistol as a melee bludgeoning weapon and roll the same damage dice you'd roll if you were firing your weapon. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Use a gun.
COMBAT

Point Blank Master : You now gain a +1 boost to strike when using a ranged weapon in close combat. At Ruby it is +2, and at Obsidian it is +3. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot
COMBAT

Point Blank Shot : You are adept at using your ranged weapon, in close combat. In close combat your ranged weapon gets a +1 to damage. At Amber, it is now +2, at Emerald +3, at Ruby +4 and at Obsidian +5, Diamond +6. This is a constant skill.
COMBAT

Point Blank Spells: You are adept at using your magic in close melee combat. In close combat your non-registered spells gain a +1 to damage. At Amber, it is now +2, at Emerald +3, at Ruby +4 and at Obsidian +5, Diamond +6. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Arcane Class
(V - Magical or Psionic Affinity)

Poison/Venom Immunity : Immune to mundane and common poisons and venoms. This does not give you immunity to rare poisons, or magical poisons. [DM will let you know if this is something rare or magical.] This is an innate skill.
Limits: You may not take this skill if you have a racial weakness to poison/venom.
(CC - Animal with natural immunity such as a snake)
(R)

Poisonmaking and Use : The alchemist is able to create and use poisons. (Per Potion Rules, Poisons from List only)
Prerequisite: Alchemy Skill

Poison Polish : The charmer gains the ability to coat her nails in poison. This poison is spread through an injury by the nails. The charmer never risks poisoning herself when applying poison to her nails. This poison does an extra 1d4 damage per hand, once per combat. If the charmer wishes, they can coat their nails in any poison they've purchased instead, and still does not risk poisoning themselves.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary), Nailed It Skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Poisonous: You are an animal companion or familiar that has a natural poison attack. However that poison is delivered (claw, bite, sting), your target must roll a DC15 Endurance save or suffer an extra +5 points of damage that bypasses the target's defenses.
(CC - Animal with a natural poison, such as snake or scorpion)

Polearm Acrobat: While wielding a polearm, spear, staff, or similarly shaped object, you receive a +3 bonus to Acrobatics checks and a +1 to your Defense DC.
Prerequisites: Two-Handed Weapon, Uses a Polearm
COMBAT

Polyglot : Every gemstone rank you have achieved, you may choose 1 new language that you speak, read, and write. It can be taken more than once.
FLAVOR
(CC - Ravens or Creatures that can Speak Only)
(R)

Polylingual : You can speak and understand all languages, but cannot read or write in any language but your own.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR
(R)

Pommel Strike: The knight knows that not only can the bladed section of his weapon be employed on the field of battle, but the pommel as well. By adjusting the grip he has upon the blade behind the Knight's shield, they lash out and catch their opponent in the head with a pommel strike, stunning their opponent. Once per combat, target loses as many turns as allowed by rank. Willpower save given each round of DC10 + Knight's Strenght.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary)
COMBAT - Lose Turn

Portal Jumper: As many times a day as half your INT (min: 1/day) or CHA (with Sealed with a Kiss) you are able to call up a friendly portal that will take you and your friends to a chosen safe house. This can only be used out of combat.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Pouncing Beast : These bestial pictographs seem poised to leap off the mystic's skin. The mystic can summon one beast in combat to fight alongside of them. Use the summoning spell stats for your gemstone rank to determine stats. If summoned inside combat, it takes your turn to summon the beast.
Prerequisite: Mystic, Mystic Tattoo Skill
COMBAT
(V - Mystic Tattoo Skill)

Power Attack : This fighting style values the power behind the blow to do the most damage over placement, the force enough to be felt through defenses. Allowing a fighter to use their strength instead of their quickness to add to their melee strike. This is an innate skill.
COMBAT
(CC)

Power Dualist : You have become skilled enough with two weapons that you deal more damage with two weapons. You may roll 1d extra with your combat dice. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Fighter (Primary) AND Dual Wield Skill AND Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Prayer: Paladins and priests are able to communicate with their patron deity, often when they need to decide on what to do in order to best serve them. Once per adventure, you may commune with your deity and work with the DM on any information or advice that they might be given.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary) or Priest (Primary)
FLAVOR

Prayer of Escape: With a powerful prayer, you call upon the servants of your god to whisk a friend out of a grapple. The target is teleported 10 feet away from the grappler and the grapple ends immediately. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Paladin (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Prayers to the Gods: A devout may offer up a special prayer once per day, that gives him particular abilities. Only one prayer may be used per day from the following list.
Prerequisites: Devout Class Only

Agile Feet: For one full adventure or mission, you ignore all difficult terrain and do not take any penalties when moving through it.

Blessed Spell: For one full adventure or mission, one chosen spell's difficulty is increased by +2. Any time you use that spell during the quest, treat it's normal DC as +2 higher.

Flash of Divine Insight: You are given a moment's insight into a problem you are facing, allowing you to add+5 to any one Knowledge Check.

Held at Death's Door: Once per adventure, when you take a blow that would otherwise kill you, you are instead left with 1 hit point short of dying.

Holy Inspiration: Once per day, you can speak an inspiring word your allies within 30 feet. Those allies receive a +2 bonus on Strike rolls, checks, and saving throws for one single round.

Memory of Friends: Once per adventure, when an ally within 30 feet fails a save, you may instantly give them another chance to roll using your own bonus for the save.

Preemptive Strike : Like reading the scriptures upon which your lessons were inscribed, you too read the subtle movements of your opponent. You are able to see the method of their attack, which allows you to reach out and deliver a strike of your own before they connect their attack. Once per combat, you may turn the damage meant for you back upon your attacker.
Prerequisite: Monk (Primary) and Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Prehensile Hair : The spellborn can instantly cause her hair (or even eyebrows) to grow up to 10 feet long or to shrink to its normal length, and can manipulate her hair as if it were a limb with a Strength bonus equal to her Intelligence bonus. Her hair has a reach of 10 feet, and she can use it as a secondary natural attack that deals 1d4 points of damage. Her hair can manipulate objects (but not weapons) as dexterously as a human hand. The hair cannot be sundered or attacked as a separate creature. Using her hair does not harm the spellborn's head or neck, even if she lifts something heavy with it. A typical male spellborn with this skill can also manipulate his beard, moustache, or eyebrows.
Prerequisites: Spellborn (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Presence of Mind: The depths of your knowledge improve your reaction time. You may add your Intelligence (INT) bonus to your initiative checks in addition to anything else you are allowed to use such as Quickness (QCK) and Lightning Initiative. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: INT 8
FLAVOR

Primal Restoration: A green glow surrounds you or a nearby ally, purging them of various afflictions. Once per combat, you may use this skill to remove any sort of effect, magical or supernatural or otherwise, that would normally be removed by rolling a save unless placed by a higher gemstone ranking source.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Emerald Rank

Prone Shooter : If you have been knocked prone, you use the ground to stabilize your aim while using a ranged weapon, and do not lose a turn.

Protection of the Devout : This skill wards the Paladin from mental control from evil creatures. A Paladin simply cannot be possessed or have their mind taken over by evil forces. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Protective Parry : Your training enables you to defend not only yourself, but a creature near you. You may use this for another in a match. When you use this skill, neither takes damage. This may be used once per combat. You may not parry an attack when unarmed, or in heavy armor.
Prerequisites: Fighter AND Parry Skill
DEFENSE
(V - Parry Skill)

Protective Paws: Protective of you, your pet may attempt to knock a melee weapon away from you just before it strikes you. If your pet is within five feet of you when you are attacked by a melee weapon, it may attempt to grab or knock the weapon off course. Roll Strike for your pet, and if they make strike the weapon is knocked away before it can hit you, and you take no damage. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisites: Bonded Skill, Land Companion, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Protective Talons: Vigilantly circling overhead, your pet may swoop down and snare ranged weapons just before they strike you. If your pet is within five feet of you when you are attacked by a ranged weapon, it may attempt to grab or knock the weapon off course. Roll Strike for your pet, and if they make strike the weapon is grabbed or knocked off course and you take no damage. This can be used once per combat.
Prerequisite: Bonded Skill, Flying Companion, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Psicrystal : A psicrystal is a tool used by psions. It may be used to deliver "spells" and magic attacks from a psion, allowing the psion to stay out of range if desired. Psicrystals have personalities and are an extension of their creator's personality, the particular personality benefits the owner. You may only have one psicrystal at a time, and you must decide which of your spells is going to be imprinted into the psicrystal upon creation. Using a psicrystal allows you to cast an extra spell in combat - the one that is imprinted into it on creation. Psicrystals can speak one language of the owner's choice (as long as the owner speaks it) but understands all languages known by the owner. The owner can will the psicrystal to form spidery ectoplasmic legs if desired.

If you wish to take the skill "Animal Companion" as well, you may choose to build a dossier for your psicrystal that allows it to make it's own attacks and have skills, etc.

Psicrystals have 10hp when it comes to shattering them. In order to imprint a new psicrystal you must shatter the one you already have. Imprinting a new psicrystal costs gold, just as if you were switching out for another skill. You MUST inform the Treasury Mod AND the Class Mod when you destroy and imprint a new psicrystal. The cost goes up as a skill switch: 500gp / 1000gp / 2000gp / 4000gp / 5000gp. If your psicrystal is destroyed in combat, though, you may replace it for free, but it MUST hold the same spell as the one destroyed in combat.

Roll to determine your psicrystal's personality, which gives the owner a bonus:

1-Artistic | 2 Extra CP a Week
2-Bully | +2 Intimidate Checks
3-Coward | +2 Hide Checks
4-Friendly | +2 on Diplomacy Checks
5-Liar | +2 Bluff Checks
6-Meticulous | +2 Search Checks
7-Observant | +2 Spot Checks
8-Wise | +2 on one Knowledge Owner has
9-Sneaky | +2 Stealth Checks
10-Sympathetic | +2 on Insight Checks
11-Antagonistic | +2 Damage
12-Resolved | +2 Willpower Checks
13-Greedy | +2 Appraise Checks
14-Jealous | +2 Lockpicking Checks
15-Hero | +2 Endurance Checks
16-Attentive | +2 Listen Checks
17-Playful | +2 Sleight of Hand Checks
18-Kind | 5 Extra Healing Points
19-Joyful | +2 Gather Info Checks
20-Nimble | +2 on Initiative

Prerequisites: Psion
(V - Psionic Affinity)

Psionic Affinity : You are skilled in using your mind to do great and magical things. If you take Psion as a class you do not need to take this skill. This is like magical affinity, but all your "magic" is done psionically. You still have to write 'spells'.
(R)

Psychometry : By handling a physical (non-living) object, the psion or mage can gain knowledge of what past events have surrounded it. Work with the DM for the information.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Psychoportation: Teleports as many creatures as he has Intelligence Trait Points to designated spot that you have been before.
Prerequisite: Psion, Spellborn, Amber Rank
(V - Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Psymbiot : When you are psionically focused and one or more psions stand within 10 feet of you, all psions in that area gain a +2 bonus on all checks, and saving throws.
Prerequisite: Psion or Magiken Only
(R)

Pulse of the City: The contacts of a noble have grown so widespread and operate so deeply in the infrastructure of cities where he has a home that he learns about anything of importance almost as soon as it happens. He is kept up to date on major thefts, purchases, arrests, social engagements and political occurrences at all times. In game terms, the noble can ‘take 10’ on Gather Information checks every morning of every day and gains a re-roll on the check the same evening without any risk of informing people of his interest.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Punch Through [TEAMWORK] You and your allies that have this skill are able to ignore any target's damage reduction. If two are using this, you ignore DR/5, if three allies have this skill, you ignore DR/10, if more than three are using it, you ignore DR/15.
COMBAT

Purr : The ultimate tool of feline seduction: by softly purring near one person or animal, the werecat instills her with a desire to cuddle, pet and spoil him. So long as he treats his paramour well, she’ll want nothing more than to shower him with affection for days at a time. Purr works in any form. To set this charm in motion, the werecat must purr audibly for at least a minute. The player rolls d20 + Charisma, this becomes the Willpower DC for the target. Violence or unreasonable demands (“Go kill that vampire for me, sweetheart”) wreck the charm beyond repair — it’ll never work on her again. The infatuation lingers for one day per gemstone rank. This is NOT a combat effect, it only works outside of combat.
Prerequisite: Werecat, or Cat Beastfolk
FLAVOR
(CC - Cat)
(R)

Push to the Limit : You can push your body to it's limits...and then some. This gives you a +5 to any Endurance rolls you are asked to take.
(CC)
(R)

Quarry : You are able to choose one particular enemy a day, of the type of your chosen favored enemy, and gain extra bonuses against that enemy. All Favored Enemy bonuses are doubled against that one enemy, and you may choose one attack against that enemy per day to be an automatic critical hit. If this chosen enemy attempts to flee, you may at any time during combat (even if it isn't your turn) attempt to stop them with a free attack.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Favored Enemy Skill, Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Quarterstaff Defender : You are skilled at using a quarterstaff for both attacks and defense. Using your quarterstaff, you are able to catch in incoming melee attack, and redirect half the damage back to the attacker once per combat.
Prerequisites: Mage, Mystic or Shaman, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)

Quick and Dirty : You forgo the option to attack and instead may play another dirty trick on a foe. In place of your attack against a different target, once per combat, you make the falter in another cunning way. There is no strike, there is no attack, this is simply a trick resulting in another 1 round lose turn but the target can evade if they are able.
Prerequisite: Dirty Trickster

Quick Reconnoiter: You can make one check that includes both Spot and Listen, adding your Perception bonus to the roll and any other boosts to spot OR listen such as Alert. This can be used as often as you like, even during combat as a free action.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary)
FLAVOR

Quickstep : The Swordmaster's dance allows him to move rapidly, fluidly and rhythmically. This skill allows the Swordmaster to completely dance right out of the way of an incoming physical attack, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster
DEFENSE - Evade
(V)

[Head Moderator]

Racial Emulation : When using your Changeling Trickster skill to assume the form of a humanoid creature, you in effect become that race so well that anything that effects that race also effects you. This can be positive or negative. For instance, if you find a weapon that can ONLY be wielded by an elf, you can use this skill to emulate an elf so well that you can wield the weapon. BUT if you are emulating an elf with this skill and someone strikes you with an Elfbane weapon, you will take double damage. You may only emulate one race at a time.
Prerequisite: Changeling Race
FLAVOR
(R)

Racial Weakness Resistance : This is a catchall resistance for racial weaknesses, giving you a +2 defense against your racial weakness. This is a constant skill.
Limits: You cannot take this if you've taken Unholy/Holy Resistance, or Elemental Resistance or any other skill that gives you defense against a weakness.
DEFENSE
(R)

Rain of Flowers : The monk is able to perform a counterattack immediately upon being attacked. The monk reacts to the attack and rolls their dice as well as any unarmed tech dice on an attack immediately after they are attacked without a strike needed, once per combat. They may also use any attack bonuses on their weapon they have up to +5 and any applicable trait bonus.
Prerequisites: Monk
COMBAT
(V)

Rake's Fortune: Swashbucklers and swordmasters tend to be extremely skilled and lucky individuals. Once per day, you may re-roll any dice roll. The character must take the result of the re-roll, even if it's worse than the original roll. At Emerald rank, the character may take the best roll out of the the two rolls. At Obsidian, you may use this skill twice per day.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler (Primary), or Swordmaster (Primary)
COMBAT

Random Acts of Violence: You receive a +2 bonus to all Charisma based tactics and talents, and Rogue Checks such as Stealth, Lockpicking, etc while you are committing or fleeing from a violent crime.
Prerequisites: Chaotic and Non-Good Alignment

Ranged Blindfight: This skill allows you to use a ranged weapon in close combat ONLY, while in a situation where you are blinded in some way. You should be within 30 feet of your enemy, talk to the DM if you are unsure.
Prerequisite: Combat Class, Rogue or Monk AND Blindsense AND Point Blank Shot

Ranged Sniper: You are adept in lining up accurate, deadly shots with your ranged weapon. This skill allows you to add a bonus of half your Quickness to the damage of each ranged attack that you make, including firearms. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Use ranged weapon.

Ranged Throat Threat: You can attempt a throat threat from melee range when wielding a piercing ranged weapon. See "Throat Threat" skill for the rules and information. For a ranged throat threat, you would roll an opposed Quickness (QCK) check, or opposed Intelligence (INT) check if you have Tactician's Sense.
Prerequisites: QCK 10, or Tactician's Sense Skill with INT 10
COMBAT

Ranger's Bond: This skill gives the ranger an Animal Companion (See that Skill)and allows any favored enemy or favored terrain bonuses you have as a ranger apply to your animal companion as well. You cannot have the skill Animal Companion or Familiar, and take this skill.
Prerequisites: Ranger, Amber Rank

Ranged Defense: A ranger gains DR 5 against ranged attacks. In addition, once per combat, he can catch an arrow fired at him and then shoot it any target he chooses. Roll Strike and proceed as normal.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Ranged Shield Pin: When using a ranged weapon to attack an opponent within 30 feet, you may choose to deal no damage with a successful strike. Instead, you negate any benefits your target gains from their shield for one round. You can attempt this once per round against any shield-wielding opponent who is within one size category of you. You must announce before you attack that you are making a Ranged Shield Pin.
Prerequisite: Point Blank Shot
COMBAT

Ransomable: When your foes look at you, they can't help but think that they might be able to get some money for you…if they keep you alive. For whatever reason, intelligent creatures that value wealth that see you get the feeling that you might be worth something to someone. It could be because you're a known member of a wealthy and prestigious family, or it could be that you're known to be a favored agent of a powerful noble, or it could just be that you wear expensive clothing. Whatever the reason is, it makes people think twice before killing you. Upon being attacked, you may roll a Diplomacy check against the attacker's Strike roll, if you win, the attacker will think twice about killing you and instead subdue you in some way. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Noble, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - Sapphire Rank)

Rapid Breath: A dragon is so attuned to their inner essence, so close to their element, that they are able to more rapidly expel their breath weapon allowing them to use their breath weapon alongside any other actions during combat. For example, an attack with a weapon + breath weapon, or a magical attack + breath weapon.
Prerequisites: Dragon Breath skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Rapid Intimidation: A bloodhound can attempt to demoralize an opponent as a free action along with another action on his turn in combat, such as an attack or a hog-tie attempt.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound, Demoralizing Stare
COMBAT

Rapid Voodoo: You are so skilled at creating voodoo dolls that you can create one without taking up a full round of combat, enabling you to craft a voodoo doll and use it (or make another action) during the same round.
Prerequisites: Create Doll, Sapphire Rank

Rapier Wit: When attacking a foe the swashbuckler has previously used Witty Repartee on, the swashbuckler can make critical hits easier on that one person, obtaining a critical hit on strike rolls of 19-20.
Prerequisites: Witty Repartee Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(V - Witty Repartee Skill, Ruby Rank)

Rapscallion: You may add your Intelligence bonus as an addition to any Bluff Checks that you make.
Prerequisites: INT 5, Rogue or Thief Adept
FLAVOR
(V - INT 5)

Rat's Escape : A wererat is able to dislocate their limbs and slide through small openings. This allows a wererat or rat beastfolk to escape once per day without need of any rolls, and to enter small openings far smaller than their body size would allow.
Prerequisites: Any type of rat race such as wererat or Rat Beastfolkz
FLAVOR
(CC - Rat)
(R)

Rattle Spirits : By beginning a short ritual of shaking his medicine staff and chanting in the secretive language of the medicine men, the shaman may use his powers over the dead to instead affect those not of this world. The shaman may rebuke both outsiders as well as elementals as if they were undead. This ability affects both types of creatures. This means that they may attempt to rebuke the creature forcing them to return to their home plane. On your turn you may state you are using the skill, and roll an opposed check, adding a +3 to your roll. If you roll higher, then the outsider or elemental is instantly pulled back to their own home plane.
Prerequisite: Shaman, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity, Amber Rank)

Razortusk : You may make a bite attack instead of using weapons or unarmed techs on your turn, doing 1d8 damage plus your Strength bonus (or pertinent trait, such as QCK if you have Dex Fighter) as well as your combat dice. You may use this as many times as you wish during combat as long as it is the only attack you are making on your round.
Prerequisite: Must be a creature with a powerful bite attack available.
COMBAT
(CC)
(R)

Ready and Waiting: A bloodhound is ready for trickery at all times. He can ready an action against his mark, even outside of combat. If the mark triggers the bloodhound's readied action at any point, the bloodhound can carry out his action as if in combat. For instance, he could use Apply Pressure outside of combat to decrease the mark's dice sides, or Hog-Tie to tie the mark up.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound, Amber Rank

Reaping Spell: A target that is killed by a spell you cast cannot be reincarnated, resurrected or otherwise brought back. This can only be used on NPC targets, and in some cases may need permission from your DM.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), Black Mage (Primary), Spellborn (Primary) or Psion (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Rebirth - You are so attuned with the natural world that if you are killed, you may instantly be rezzed with full health and no loss of dice, and this does not take up one of your five rezzes in OH. This is a boon granted by your ties with nature itself. This can only be used once per week.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Topaz Rank
(CC - Magical Profession)

Rebound Leap : You are so skilled with your mount that you may jump back upon your mount once per combat without it taking up a turn if you have dismounted or fallen off.
FLAVOR

Redeeming Grace : This allows a priest to heal a group of up to 8 creatures of all disease and illness at once. This can be used once per week. This does not get rid of vampirism or cure lyanthropy.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Ruby Rank

Redirect : Once per combat, you may take advantage of a foe who has attacked you by any means, by reflecting that damage back upon them. It must be the same type of damage; in other words ranged attacks are reflected by ranged, melee by melee, and magic by magic.
Prerequisite: Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(CC - Combatant)

Reflective Direction : In combat many folk lose their cool, not you. You keep your head about you, able to see things through a tranquil, reflective state. Forgoing all actions for that round (including attacks, counter attacks, defensive skills, etc - if attacked you may only use armor defense) to play the smart move. One ally of your choice within 30 feet is given your turn, allowing them to attack in your stead, as well as on theirs when it comes. You can use this skill in rounds limited by your Gem Rank: Crystal and Topaz: 1 round, Amber and Sapphire: 2 rounds, Emerald and Ruby: 3 rounds, Obsidian: 4 rounds.
Prerequisites: Intelligence Trait: 6 or higher
COMBAT

Refreshing Touch: The Paladin can remove exhaustion, fatigue, sickness, and nausea with a touch up to three times a day. At Ruby, four times, and at Obsidian, five times a day.
Prerequisite: Paladin or Priest, Healing Affinity, Emerald Rank
(V - Healing Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Reincarnated Body: A daeva is reincarnated into a new, young adult body of the shape of any known race in the land. Once you choose this shape, that is the body that the daeva will retain until they die. If a daeva dies and is rezzed within an hour's time they come back into that body but if more than an hour passes, they will appear in a new body somewhere in the world.
Prerequisites: Daeva Racial
(R)

Reincarnation : You are of a race or religion that causes your soul to be reincarnated when you die. After using up all five of your OH rezzes, you are allowed to reincarnate into a new body of whatever age, race, alignment or sex that you wish. It is up to you how much your character remembers from his past life. You lose all xp, and skills, and crafting points, and must begin again as if starting over though you retain all gold, weapons, armor, and belongings but you must rebuild your character for race, class, profession and xp. You must write up a short story of the reincarnation, and claiming your items and send to the Class Moderator and tesarikone. You must take this skill every time you reincarnate to be able to use it again.
Prerequisites: Race or Belief that utilizes reincarnation, short story
FLAVOR
(R)

Reloaded Discipline : Where a lesser gunman would be frustrated by the cycle of reloading, you simply let the time and effort of every reload embolden you to make every shot count. You may re-roll your weapon damage dice once per combat, and take the better damage roll.
Prerequisites: Use a gunpowder weapon.

Remote Viewing : This ability allows the Psion to see through the eyes of another person in their general area. The target, if unwilling does have the option to roll 1d20 Willpower save with DC15 against the use of this ability. If the save is failed, or the target is willing, it lasts up to 30 mun minutes.
Prerequisites: Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR

Remove Curse : This skill gives the ability to remove a curse from a target creature at will. It also gives the ability to temporarily nullify any curse that may be present on an object (per DM decision). You must be within 3 yards of the object to use this skill, and must remain within this range for the curse to remain nullified. The nullification lasts 1 hour, at Sapphire 2 hours, and at Ruby 3 hours. If you are of the Devout Class, at Emerald you may simply remove curses from items completely (per DM decision).
**Curse removals are up to the DM, they may allow or disallow per their decisions.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity OR Devout Class

Rend: If your companion hits their opponent with a claw attack, they can deal extra damage of half their STR bonus with this skill.
(CC - Combatant Profession)
COMBAT

Reputation Precedes : You are well known (either hero or villain) and that grants you one contact in whatever city/organization you wish. (Arrange with tesarikone) As you gain rank, you gain one more contact for each gemstone rank you gain after taking this skill.
Reputation 10 AND Sapphire Rank
FLAVOR

Requiem: Your bardic performance affects undead, even if they are immune or resistant to mind-altering effects. At Sapphire, you may choose a second type of enemy normally resistant to mind-altering effects, and at Ruby a third. You may choose from: Plants, Animals, Constructs, Oozes, or Vermin.
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)

Resist Taunt : A Swordmaster is able to gain a bonus against social attacks such as skills that taunt, intimidation, persuasion and the like while in combat. The Swordmaster gains a +5 to any opposed checks he needs to make against these social attacks.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - Sapphire Rank)

Retribution : Once per combat, as a reaction, you can make a single melee attack against an enemy who has just caused you damage, no strike roll needed. Proceed with normal damage.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary)
COMBAT

Retribution of the Meek : Your job is to keep the others in your party alive. To see to their wounds, to mend their flesh, to staunch the flow of blood. Sometimes, they forget that behind the bloody rags and thick pastes, you have an ability to defend yourself. Once per combat you may take the damage from one attack reduce it to half and convert that to healing energy to be used upon yourself. Example: If you are hit for 20 damage, use this skill and you instead get healed 10 points.
Prerequisites: Healer (Primary) or Priest (Primary)
COMBAT

Return of the Sword : If an enemy has been immobilized by Virtue of Sword, then the knight that impaled him may rip his sword free from his body as a free action on his turn, doing an extra 2d3 damage plus your weapon damage to the enemy. The enemy gets no defense against this. The knight may then take his turn as normal, whether against that foe or another.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary), Virtue of the Sword skill, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Return Shot: Using the power of your mind, you can catch and return projectiles and thrown weapons. Once per combat, when you would normally be hit by a projectile or thrown weapon, you can deflect the attack so that you take no damage from it. The attack is deflected back at your attacker, and they take the damage meant for you.
Prerequisite: Psion (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Reveille : Allies affected by exhaustion, fatigue, sleep effects, stuns or holds are given another chance to roll a save against it, and if they pass they are instantly returned to normal/awaken. Allies who are sleeping normally automatically awaken when this ability is used.
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)

Revival : A Paladin may give up 5hp of their own, to a combatant that has been dealt a killing blow, if it will keep them from death. It does not have to be the Paladin's turn.
Prerequisites: Paladin (Primary)

Rezz the Dead : You know how to pull the spirit of a dead creature back to their body, giving them a second life. The target loses an OH rezz.

Ricochet : Using a weapon such as a boomerang, chakram or any other non-piercing ranged attack you are able to strike two adjacent targets with one weapon. You need only pass Strike for the first person, and both take the same damage rolled, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Combat Class
COMBAT
(V)

Ride-By Attack : This enables you to make an attack from your mount as you ride by the enemy, without need to make any Ride Checks. You keep moving after the attack, taking you out of melee range of the target, they cannot make any counter attack against you.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat
COMBAT

Riff : A bard can unleash a blast of magically enhanced sound waves from their instrument of choice (or vocally) that gives them a bonus of 2d5 extra damage once per combat.
Prerequisite: Bard
COMBAT
(V)

Riposte : If you are attacked during the round while using Defense Maneuver and the attack misses, you are allowed an immediate counter attack of rank dice + weapon dice + dmg trait only with no need to roll Strike. Can only be used once per combat, and can only counter attack one opponent even if multiple opponents attack them that round (though the defense bonus will stay for the rest of the round.)
Prerequisite: Defense Maneuver Skill
DEFENSE

Ritual of Youth : A Black Magus may sacrifice a good-aligned sentient creature they have captured on a quest (approved solo quest is fine too) to lengthen her lifespan. She immediately returns to her young adult appearance (hiding all effects of her craft on her body, hideous deformities and signs of ages) as well as suppressing the negative effects of old age. This effect for a set number of time before reverting to her old self.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary), Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

Base: 1 week
.....is a humanoid: +3 days.
.....of the same race as the mage: +4 days.
.....a virgin (humanoid only): +1 week.
.....a creature with the Good subtype: +2 weeks
.....a Unicorn: +3 weeks.

Roll With It: You know how to take a hit, even if your reaction sends you bouncing and flying out of battle. If you are struck by a melee or ranged weapon you can convert that damage into movement that sends you off in an uncontrolled bouncing roll. When using this skill, you take half damage from the attack.
Prerequisites: Acrobatic, QCK 10
(CC - Acrobatic, QCK 10)

Roof Jumper: This skill enables the use of the following tactics. You cannot benefit from both tactics in the same round.
Prerequisite: Shingle Runner, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Death from Above: You do substantial damage if you deliberately leap down to attack a foe beneath you. You must drop at least 20 feet. You must roll to strike. If you hit, you deal damage as normal, plus an extra 1d6 points for every 10 feet of distance beyond the first 10 feet; thus, a drop of 30 feet causes an extra 2d6 points of damage. You take 2 points of damage per 10 feet from the fall that cannot be defended against, but you can reduce the falling damage with a successful Jump check of DC15. You cannot use any skill, loot or spell to slow your fall while attacking in this manner. This can be used once per combat.

Urban Acrobatics: You can make use of windowsills, awnings, lampposts, and similar features of the city when leaping or falling from buildings. If you deliberately jump downward within arm's reach of a wall or similar vertical surface, you can move yourself sideways along the wall, traveling up to 5 feet horizontally for every 10 feet you fall. If you accidentally fall, you can move 5 feet horizontally for every 20 feet you fall.

Master of the Roof: You know how to use the slopes to your advantage. You gain a +1 bonus to Strike against any opponent who is at a different elevation from you.

Roots of Rescue: Roots erupt from the ground and hold your ally in place. If an ally is being pulled, pushed or slid by a forced movement, you may call upon the roots of the earth to hold that ally in place, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Druid, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V-Amber Rank)

Roundel : A Swordmaster's grace and movement in the dance of his blade allows him to quickly position himself and his weapon in such a way that an attack made upon him is easily turned right back onto the attacker, causing the attacker to take the damage intended by the Swordmaster.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Rune Fang : These jagged runes allow a mystic to polymorph into any creature native to the area they were raised. This allows the mystic to gain a natural attack that is fitting to the creature, be it bite, claw, etc and they may use weapon dice of 1d4/1d4. Their equipment melds into the shape of whatever they take, and any defense can still be counted, and they are able to still cast their spells.
Prerequisite: Mystic, Mystic Tattoo Skill, Topaz Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity, Topaz Rank)

Running Gunner : You have become so skilled in reloading your chosen gunpowder weapon that you may make other actions while reloading. This skill enables you to move or make another non-attack action while you are reloading your weapon such as using a potion, casting a non-attack spell, etc. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Use a gunpowder weapon.

Ruthless : When you have killed a foe on your turn, you may immediately make another attack of ONLY your weapon damage and trait bonus to any legal target left on the field, no strike needed.
Prerequisite: Combat Class (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Sacred Conduit : You are the sacred conduit of your deity and are able to give a devastating attack once per combat, allowing you to roll your combat dice twice as you strike not only with weapon but with the holy radiant and blazing energy of your deity.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary) Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Sacred Touch : You are able to stabilize a dying creature merely by touching them, at will during combat. This allows someone who is, for instance, at 10/10 hit points and about to die, to be healed 1 point to take them to 9/10.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary) or Priest (Primary)
FLAVOR

Sacred Whisper : Your deity watches over everything you do, and will whisper to you when you are about to be hit allowing you to evade the damage meant for you once per combat.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary)
DEFENSE - Evade

Sacrifice - You are adept at taking the brunt of an attack meant for another. You may choose to take the attack of a fellow combatant upon yourself once per combat and take half the damage. Please use logic when you roleplay taking the damage. It must be something you can logically do.
DEFENSE
(CC - Combatant or Defender Profession)

Safe Path : The Safe Path skill allows you to find the safest path through unfamiliar territory by contacting an elemental spirit and discussing the terrain with it. He does not conjure the elemental, he only establishes mental contact with it. Sometimes the elemental animates a part of the nearby landscape, making its conversation “audible” to other characters. Unless you have knowledge of the elemental’s language, the elemental will only communicate using “sign language,” utilizing its native element to produce simple, but effective, signals which you will need to translate.
Prerequisites: Obsidiman, Arkai, Elemental, or Lumian Race
FLAVOR
(R)

Salvation: A priest may, once per adventure or mission, use this skill for himself or an ally to heal half of their hit points and remove any curse, negative effects or anything detrimental to the person.
Prerequisite: Priest (Primary), Sapphire Rank

Sanctify Corpse: This skill allows you to bless a corpse with positive energy, preventing it from being turned into an undead creature. Attempts to raise the corpse as an undead automatically fail. If the corpse is of a person slain by a creature that creates undead out of its slain foes (such as a shadow, vampire, or wraith), that effect is delayed for as many hours as the Devout's Intelligence Bonus.
Prerequisites: Devout Class (Primary)
FLAVOR

Savage Barrage: Often times a Brawler is witnessed cutting across the battlefield or arena in a bloody line. His attacks falling upon any that stumble into his path. When the Brawler is in medium armor or less he may attack up to 1d4 additional enemies in his turn once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Savage Blessing: This allows a druid to be more accurate in delivering an attack for one round, giving the druid a +5 to their Strike once per combat.
Prerequisite: Druid
COMBAT
(V)

Savage Critical: Sometimes your attacks are much more effective than others, and when you roll a Critical Success, you triple your combat dice roll instead of double, once per combat.
(CC - Combatant Profession)

Savage Maw : Your teeth extend and sharpen, transforming your mouth into a maw of razor-sharp fangs. You increase your bite attack to 2d8 plus your Strength modifier (or pertinent trait, such as QCK if you have Dex Fighter). You may use this as many times as you wish during combat as long as it is the only attack you are making on your round.
Prerequisite: Razortusk Skill, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(CC)

Scabrous Touch : When a Black Mage is attacked in close quarters, he can use his charnel touch power to inflict a the attacker with Black Plague, once per combat. The target must gain a Cure Disease, or be afflicted by the disease.

Conditions:
1st Round - Exhaustion & Fever, -2 to Strike
2nd Round - Break out in scabrous oozing sores, -4 to Attacks
3rd Round - Nausea & Vomiting, Lose Turn
4th Round & Beyond - Too sick & weak to fight any longer. Cannot engage in any combat until you are cured. Covered in oozing scabs, purple from infection, nausea, fever.

Prerequisite: Black Mage, Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Scanning : With this Gift, the psion is able to "scan" a certain target and know certain details about them. These details can include, but are not limited to; any concealed weapons, true appearances, current health level (Hit Points), and a character's natural or true race. You may work with the DM for other creative things you might wish to find out.
Psion (Primary) or Spellborn (Primary)
FLAVOR

Scavenger: A thief adept is so gifted at thievery, he is able to scavenge through fallen bodies and recover gold hidden even in the hardest to find places. This enables a thief to roll their rank dice up to three times per adventure to loot the bodies of fallen creatures (per DM approval) for gold. Whatever they roll (such as 24 38) is added together for how much gold they are able to scavenge.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept, Thievery Skill
FLAVOR
(CC - Sneaky Profession)

Scent : You gain exceptional skills in scent. You can identify any scent that you have smelled in the past. This allows you to track by scent alone if you are able to find and recognize the scent you are following. You can make out scents at a 30 foot range around you.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Scion of Lore: The noble is well versed in all of the arts and sciences available from books and was tutored in classical education so that she may be well prepared for the world. If you have the Knowledge skill, you gain an extra +2 to each knowledge check roll for those you've chosen to be proficient within.
Prequisites: Noble, Knowledge Skill, Topaz Rank
(V - Knowledge Skill, Topaz Rank)
FLAVOR

Scion of the Arts: You may roll a d100 to see how much gold you earn from your Performance, and it also allows you to perform up to four times a day instead of the normal three.
Prerequisites: Noble, Performance Skill, Amber Rank
(V - Performance Skill, Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Scold! : A healer is no stranger to having to scold many a patient, friend or foe. The healer may attempt to intimidate an enemy by using an Intimidate check and adding double their Charisma Bonus. If the opponent fails, they are terrified and lose -4 dice sides, and -4 hit points for the remainder of the combat.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary) Profession Only, Ruby Rank

Scorpion Strike: You can perform an unarmed strike that greatly hampers your target's movement. Upon a successful strike, once per combat, you cause your opponent to lose their Quickness Bonus for one round.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Emerald Rank
COMBAT

Scout's Vigilance: Sometimes it's best to send someone ahead to double check that you're not walking into a trap, more often than not that person is you and you've developed a heightened awareness in these situations. This grants a +3 to Spot (when looking for traps), Listen (when listening for traps) and Locate Traps,
Prerequisites: PER 6

Sealed with a Kiss : You are able to cast spells (both regged and non-regged) by sheer Charisma, such as a Charmer blowing a kiss at your enemy. This enables you to use your Charisma Bonus instead of your Intelligence Bonus to determine magic strike, magic damage, and spell DC. Charmers may take this skill even if they do not meet the CHA prerequisite. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Charisma 6, Magical or Psionic Affinity
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity and Charisma (CHA) 6)

Second Chance : You may give up your turn on the next round, allowing you to re-roll a missed strike on the current round. If you miss, you still lose your turn on the next round.
(CC)

Secret Language: [Teamwork]
You and your allies have worked out a complex set of codes and phrases that allow you to secretly pass information back and forth. This can be used only by those that have this teamwork skill.

Secrets of Death : This skill allows a Black Mage to add as many new spells to their spellbook as their Intelligence Bonus per gemstone rank they achieve at Emerald and beyond.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary), Emerald Rank

Seething Hatred: You've learned to channel your hatred of a particular type of creature into a devastating attack. Select ONE creature type from the chart listed on the "Favored Enemy" skill for Rangers and mark this clearly on your dossier (such as Dire Animals, Giants, Elves, Oozes, Vermin, etc - see chart). When you designate a creature of this type as your target during combat and hit it with a melee or ranged weapon attack, you may double your weapon damage rolled against that target, once per combat.
COMBAT

Seize the Moment: Once per combat, if an ally rolls a Critical Hit, you seize the moment allowing you to make an attack of opportunity against the same opponent. You must still roll Strike.
COMBAT
(CC - Combatant Profession)

Selective Spell : When casting a spell into an area of both allies and enemies, your allies need not fear friendly fire. This is like Combat Marksman for the spellcaster. this is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Magical Affinity or Psionic Affinity

Self-Healing : You are able to heal yourself in some way, shape or form. You are given 10 healing points at Crystal Rank to self-heal yourself during adventures. As you gain rank, your self-heal points go up the same as a person with healing affinity, but they can ONLY be used by you.
Crystal - 10
Topaz - 12
Amber - 14
Sapphire - 18
Emerald - 22
Ruby - 26
Obsidian - 30
(CC)
(R)

Sense Poison : Exactly like sense gold or sense lock, it allows the Thief to sense poison in a range of 1d25 feet. This will include even poison kept in airtight vials, or natural poisons in a creature (stingers, venomous bites, etc.) Will not allow the Thief to determine what the poison does, only that it is there. Once per adventure, lasts for one hour.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept AND Ruby Rank
(V - Ruby Rank)
(CC - Supportive, Defender or Tracking Professions, Ruby Rank)

Sense Undead : You can sense undead within a radius of 100 square feet, whether you can see them or not.
Prerequisite: Priest, Paladin or Magical / Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR
(CC)

Sensual Healing : Once per combat, a Charmer may heal any one target for as many points as their Charisma bonus. This is done with a caress, kiss, or other type of sensual touch to the target.
Prerequisites: Charmer (Primary)

Sexy And You Know It : The character’s appearance is enhanced, making them look the best they ever could. The charmer gains a +5 to any Charisma-based rolls against humanoids of an appropriate gender/persuasion that could find them attractive.
Prerequisite: Charmer (Primary)
FLAVOR

Shadow Blend : A Shadowkin can hide in plain sight when within 30 feet of shadows or darkness and are always hidden at night, allowing you to add a +10 to any Hide check you make. If the opposed roll is greater, though, you are seen.
Prerequisite: Shadowkin
FLAVOR
(CC - Shadow type animal)
(R)

Shadow Blink : You can disappear and reappear at will, teleporting across short distances with a puff of smoke and shadow. You are instinctively aware of your surroundings, preventing you from reappearing inside solid objects or anything else that is already occupying your point of entry. You can only move to locations you can see, or places you have been before. You can carry small items with you when you blink, but you can't transport people or other living matter. At Crystal rank your personal range is 50ft, and increases by 50ft with each gemstone rank.

Prerequisites: Shadowkin or comparable race

FLAVOR
(R)

Shadowcloak : Once per week, this allows the Thief to become nearly invisible when in shadow or darkness, adding 5 + quickness to the DC for sight-based detection attempts. Can still be seen normally in light, but light does not end the effect, as the Thief can step back into shadows and become nearly invisible. Lasts up to 24 hours per use. When this is used, the Thief loses 5 hit points for the entire 24 hours this is being used.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept (Primary) only AND Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Shadow Fang : This ornate, shadowy glyph absorbs the souls of those the mystic slays. Any time the mystic slays a creature, he is able to gain 3 temporary hit points that last until the end of the adventure. This can be used as many times in combat as a mystic actually strikes the killing blow.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Mystic Tattoo Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Shadow Form : Outside of combat, you are able to take the form of wispy incorporeal shadows once per day, for as long as you wish. Inside combat, you may take shadow form to evade a physical attack once per combat. This means you are incorporeal for all purposes of damage and evasion, mundane weapons cannot hit you in this form unless they are enchanted in some way to hit incorporeal.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity, or Approved Race (such as shadowkin)
DEFENSE
(CC - Magical Profession or Shadow type animal)
(R)

Shadow Heal : This allows the Thief Adept, as long as he or she is using the Shadowcloak ability, to heal themselves of 5 + 2d10 damage upon stepping into a shadow. Use of this ability ends the Shadowcloak as well, so it can only be used once per week.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept (Primary) only, Shadowcloak AND Ruby Rank

Shadow Striker: You melt into the shadows, hiding from your enemies until the time is right. Your cunning, guile, and stealth allow you to pick the most opportune moment to strike. This skill gives you access to three tactics, but you may only use ONE tactic, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Shadow Walk and Stealth Skills
COMBAT

Evade Notice: If both you and an ally threaten the same opponent, you can attempt to slip beneath your opponent's notice. On your turn, if you take no hostile actions (such as attacking, casting an offensive spell) you can make a Hide check opposed by the threatened foe's Spot check. If you succeed on this check, your foe cannot attack you on his next turn as long as he threatens another active opponent. If you attack your foe for any reason before or during his next turn, you lose this tactic's benefit.

Fade Away: To use this tactic, you must first attempt an attack on an opponent. After the attack, you move away and attempt a Hide check as part of your that turn. If your attack hits the opponent, it creates a momentary diversion, granting you a +5 bonus on this Hide check.

Ghost Strike: You use an ally's distraction and your talent to move noiselessly and slip out of your opponent's field of vision for a single, crucial moment. To use this tactic, both you and an ally must threaten a single foe. For your turn, you make a Stealth check opposed by your foe's Listen check. If you succeed on this check, on the next round, your target loses his Quickness bonus giving him a DDC10 against both you, and the ally threatening the same foe.

Shadow Walk : To use this skill, you must be in an area of shadowy illumination. You and up to 1 creature per gemstone (all must be touching) are then transported along a coiling path of shadowstuff to the edge of the Material Plane where it borders the Plane of Shadow. In the region of shadow, you move at a rate of 50 miles per hour. You may use Shadow Walk for up to 1 hour per gemstone level a day, so a Crystal Rank could only use it up to 1 hour a day. You move normally on the borders of the Plane of Shadow but much more rapidly relative to the Material Plane. Thus, you can use this spell to travel rapidly by stepping onto the Plane of Shadow, moving the desired distance, and then stepping back onto the Material Plane. Because of the blurring of reality between the Plane of Shadow and the Material Plane, you can’t make out details of the terrain or areas you pass over during transit, nor can you predict perfectly where your travel will end. It’s impossible to judge distances accurately, making the spell virtually useless for scouting or spying; it is meant to be a travel skill. If your shadow walk ends in something solid, you are shunted to a clear area. This is a strictly non-combat skill.
FLAVOR
(CC - Magical Profession or Shadow type animal)
(R)

Shadowy Figure: The bloodhound is always considered to be "taking 10" on hide and move silent checks even while walking around normally, unless the bloodhound wants to be seen or heard. The DM must make opposed spot and listen checks for any NPC's to be aware of the bloodhound's presence.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary), Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

Shake It Off: [Teamwork]
You support your allies and help them recover from crippling effects. You gain a +1 to saves for every ally that has this skill (Maximum +4).

Shamanic Inscription : Like a mage carries a spellbook, a shaman carries his shaman staff. It is his staff through which he channels the often dangerous divine energies required for his spells. A staff is considered a weapon, but it is more. The six to seven foot long straight object is the shaman's spellbook, as he inscribes the spells he learns into the material of the staff. Five feet of the staff is used to inscribe spells, and this skill allows a shaman to inscribe one extra spell per dice rank into his staff.
Prerequisite: Shaman
(V - Magical Affinity)

Shapeshifting : You have the ability to shift into a different form, such as wereforms, animals, dragons, and other creatures. This is not just so that you can shrink or grow your normal form, you must actually shift your shape into another type creature.
FLAVOR
(R)

Shards of the Past : A daeva's past lives grant her bonuses on two particular tactics or talents. A daeva chooses two tactics or talents—she gains a +2 bonus on both of these skills. For instance, a daeva could choose Climb and Jump, or Spot and Listen, or Diplomacy and Escape. These must be clearly marked beside this skill on dossier and cannot be changed once they are chosen.
Prerequisite: Daeva
FLAVOR
(R)

Shared Enemy: For one combat, you may share any bonuses you get against one favored enemy with your allies.
Prerequisites: Ranger Profession, Favored Enemy Skill, Emerald Rank

Shared Vigilance: Whenever you are within 5 feet of your owner, you both gain a +1 to Spot, Listen, and Search Checks.
(CC Only)

Sharpshooter : You are skilled at using ranged weapons and gain a +1 to rolls during marksmanship matches.

Shield Bash : Once per combat, you can use your shield to bash a foe, rattling their brain and stunning them if they fail an Endurance check of DC15 , taking them out for one round of combat.
Prerequisite: Knight, Paladin, Fighter OR Priest AND uses a shield.
COMBAT
(V - Use a Shield)

Shield Beater : Allows the character, on a successful attack roll, to damage an enemy's shield (or damage their armor if they have no shield.) This lowers enemy defense by 1d3, as well as does damage according to normal damage rules. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Combat Class
COMBAT
(V)

Shield Deflection : You are able to use your shield to deflect an attack upon you towards another enemy, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Knight, Fighter, Uses Shield, Shield Weapon Skill, Amber Rank
(V - Use Shield, Shield Weapon Skill, Amber Rank)
DEFENSE

Shield of Swings: A wild frenzy of attacks serves to bolster your defenses. When using a two-handed weapon, you can use the frenzied movements of your weapon to evade half damage of one incoming melee attack. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Two-Handed Weapon
COMBAT

Shield Wall [TEAMWORK]
You form a unified defense with those around you. Whenever you are wielding a shield and are adjacent to an ally wielding a shield who also has this skill, you gain defense for each of you. If your ally is wielding a light shield, your defense increases by +1. If your ally is wielding a heavy shield or a tower shield, your shield bonus increases by +2. This only lasts while you remain adjacent to your companion.
Prerequisites: Use a shield
DEFENSE

Shield Weapon : This skill allows you to use a shield as a weapon, giving it damage according to the chart below. If you wish to use both a shield and another weapon at the same time, you must have Dual Wield. All damage from a shield is considered bludgeoning. This is a constant skill.
COMBAT

Buckler: 1d2
Light Wooden: 1d4
Light Steel: 1d5
Heavy Wooden, Rider's, Spiked Wooden: 1d6
Heavy Steel: 1d8

Shielded Mind : Your mind cannot be read by any means, even those telepathically connected. Only communication is allowed if you wish it.
Prerequsites: Psion or Magiken only
(V - Psionic Affinity)
(R - Magiken)

Shielding Prayer: Until the end of your next turn, one chosen ally nearby gains your Quickness bonus to their DDC instead of their own.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary), Priest (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Shillelagh: Enchants your quarterstaff to do additional weapon damage, changing it from 2d4 to 2d8 for a quarterstaff and 2d6 to 2d10 for an ironshod quarterstaff for one attack per combat.
Prerequisite: Druid or Shaman
(V)
COMBAT

Shingle Runner : As a child, you spent a lot of time on the interconnected rooftops that span much of your hometown. You are particularly adept at climbing, jumping, and avoiding falls upon the rooftops, and gain a +10 to Athletics and Acrobatics checks made on the rooftops, only.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Ship's Mage : You form a potent supernatural bond with a ship. Your spells have a more potent effect when cast aboard this ship, adding a +1 to the save DC of your spells. Those spellcasters who possess this skill are greatly favored as ship crew. Spells you cast while on this particular ship can never hurt your ship or the crew, unless effectively countered by your enemy. It takes one week of living and working on a ship to attune to it. You may only ever be attuned to one ship at a time, and this ship's name must be clearly placed in your dossier. If you are away from your ship for a month or more, you lose this attunement. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity

Shocking Grasp: Any weapon or unarmed attack by a mechanatrix is naturally considered "shocking" (electrical), though this can be turned off and on as they wish.
Prerequisite: Mechanatrix Racial
(R)

Shrink: At your touch, an object shrinks to your tiny size or is restored to its original state.
Prerequisites: Faery Racial
(R)

Shroudsight : Shroudsight allows a mage to see through the Shroud, the mystical barrier that separates the living world from the Underworld. By using this power, the mage can spot ghostly buildings and items, the landscape of the so-called Shroud or Ethereal Plane, and even wraiths themselves. However, there are odds that an observant wraith will notice when a mage suddenly starts staring at him, which can lead to unpleasant consequences.
Arcane Class
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
FLAVOR

Sidestep : You are skilled enough in acrobatics that you can simply dodge an incoming melee or ranged physical attack, taking no damage once per combat.
Prerequisite: Acrobatic Skill
DEFENSE - Evade
(CC - Acrobatic)

Signature Move: Triple unarmed tech for one attack (multiply tech by 3), must name what move is (haymaker, mule kick, etc) on your dossier.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Siphon Magic : A spellborn can take an incoming magical attack upon themselves and turn it into healing energy. Once per adventure, a spellborn can heal the amount of hit points they were attacked by a magical or psionic attack.
Prerequisites: Spellborn (Primary) Only AND Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Silencing Strike: When a bloodhound successfully hits a mark with a melee attack, the bloodhound may choose that the opponent is unable to speak for rounds equal to a lose turn, once per combat. This prevents casting spells with verbal components, or shouting warnings or alarms.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound, Ruby Rank
(V-Ruby Rank)

Silver Blood: You are immune to lycanthropy. If a lycanthrope bites you, then they take 1d5 damage each time, no defense allowed unless it is specifically defense against silver damage.
Prerequisites: Cannot be a lycanthrope or lycanborn yourself.
(R)

Silver Tongued & Blue Blooded: Nobles, of most any line, exude an air about them. The way they were raised often sets them above those of "lesser" blood. This skill allows the noble to take advantage of that by convincing one foe that they are in fact not their to fight and only there to try to talk. It prevents any one targeted enemy from trying to attack them until the noble makes an offensive move.
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Silver Claw : This skill causes your animal companion's or familiar's claws to be considered silver for one full combat. This may be used once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Animal Companion or Familiar Only
COMBAT
(CC)

Six-Swords : A magiken spellslayer has the ability to wield six weapons, one in each arm. These weapons should be light melee or one-handed weapons, or weapons of magical force. This gives a magiken the ability to dual wield, but also to make one devastating attack once per adventure of all six swords, rolling your combat dice twice.
Prerequisite: Magiken Spellslayer Only, Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Six-Sword Parry : Using the six swords of pure magical force (or mundane weaponry), a magiken can defend themselves in various directions, giving them a +5 defense throughout combat without need of mundane armor or shielding.
Prerequisite: Magiken Spellslayer Only AND Six-Swords Skill
DEFENSE

Skeleton Shape: Some druids are evil, called Dark Side Druids. This skill allows a Dark Side Druid to take a skeletal form of any natural animal they would normally shapeshift into. They become immune to cold in this form, and healed by negative energy.
Prerequisite: Evil Druid Only
(V)
FLAVOR

Skittering Sneak: A druid can take the form of a tiny natural beast or fey beast, such as a mouse, a house cat, or a large spider. In this form, she gains +5 bonus to Stealth checks. She cannot attack, pick up anything, or manipulate objects while in this tiny form but she can hear and see anything that the creature would normally be able to hear or see.
Prerequisites: Druid
(V)
FLAVOR

Sleep Venom : This skill causes your toxic venom to put someone to sleep instead of doing damage. This may be used once per combat, acting as a Hold skill. Your target gains an Endurance save of DC15.
Prerequisite: Vishkanya
(R)

Sleeper Hold: By maintaining a grapple hold on your opponent, you can cause them to lose consciousness. You must announce this when you first grapple a target. You only do trait damage on each round (no weapons), but if you pass the checks to maintain a grapple as many rounds as their Endurance trait bonus, then they are knocked out. So if someone's END is 3, you must pass the checks for 3 rounds before they are knocked out.
Prerequisite: Improved Grapple
COMBAT

Slough Blame : Allows the Thief to pass off blame for something onto another character. The thief rolls 1d20 + charisma after making an attempt to pass off blame, followed by the accuser or the scapegoat (whoever has the higher charisma) rolling the same. If successful, the accuser then thinks the scapegoat is responsible for whatever the Thief was previously being accused of. Lasts 3 minutes, generally long enough for the Thief to make him or herself scarce.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept AND Emerald Rank
(V - Emerald Rank)
FLAVOR

Small and Fast : You are a small or tiny race and gain a boost to your Defense DC. Small size gains +1, Tiny size gains +2. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Small or Tiny Race
(CC - Small or Tiny Size)
(R)

Smell Fear : You are able to smell fear on frightened creatures without any need for rolls. Knowing who is already suffering from fear gives you a boost of +5 Intimidation against that targeted creature, once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Scent Skill
FLAVOR
(CC - Scent)
(R)

Smoldering Glance : With but a glance at your target, you instill a burning lust within them that causes them to be unable to protect themselves, or make any defensive moves for one round of combat. The target gets a Willpower Save (DC10 + Charmer's Charisma Bonus). This causes them to lose all mundane defenses for that round of combat.
Prerequisites: Charmer (Primary), Aura of Lust, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Snagging Tail : The Snagging Tail skill allows a t'skrang to try and grab an opponent’s light weapon with his tail when disarming him, and then use it himself for the remainder of combat as a tail attack.
Prerequisites: T'skrang Race, Disarm
COMBAT
(R)

Snap out of it! : A bard can use his speech, music or poetics to create an effect similar to a break enchantment spell, freeing a single target within 30 feet affected by an enchantment.
Prerequisite: Bard, Topaz Rank
(V - Topaz Rank)

Snapping Turtle: Whenever a target fails in their attempt to strike you, once per combat you may immediately attempt to pull that target into a grapple, following all grapple rules.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Sneaky Strike: Your ability to attack your targets stealthily improves your Strike when you are using a bit of thief magic. You now gain a +1 boost to strike in combat. At Ruby it is +2, and at Obsidian it is +3.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary)
COMBAT

Snowflake War Dance : You have mastered the snowflake war dance, a mystical style of fighting with a light slashing weapon that allows you to leap, dance and almost seem to float haphazardly across the battlefield like a whirling, razor-edged snowflake. This allows you to add your Charisma (CHA) trait bonus to your damage instead of your Strength (STR). At Sapphire, you may use SWD twice per combat, at Emerald/Ruby three times per combat, at Obsidian four times per combat, and at Diamond throughout a full combat. You cannot use this skill if you are using a shield, or wearing medium or heavy armor of any kind, or using any weapon other than "light".
Prerequisites: Bard (Primary or Secondary), Charismatic Fighter

Sociable : Half-elves are skilled at charming others and recovering from faux pas. If half-elves with this racial trait attempt to change a creature's attitude with a Diplomacy check and fail by 5 or more, they can try to influence the creature a second time immediately without any repercussions.
Prerequisite: Half-Elf
FLAVOR
(R)

Sonic Blade : A bard can weave sound waves to form a weapon of their choosing in their hands, giving them 1d5 atk when it is used.
Prerequisite: Bard
COMBAT
(V - Magical Affinity)

Song of the Depths: This allows a bard to produce bardic effects even while underwater.
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)
FLAVOR

Soothing Song: When tempers flare and harsh words are flying, you retain a cool and steady head, enabling you to remedy the situation and prevent others from pulling swords out of their scabbards. Your song smooths ruffled feathers and takes the edge off an angry situation, and though they might not become the best of friends, in the very least you can stop the situation from escalating further. This can only be used out of combat, if combat has already started then it is too late to try and use it. Your song affects half as many people as your Charisma bonus, rounded up.
Prerequisite: Bard, Emerald Rank
FLAVOR
(V-Emerald Rank)

Sorcerous Flux : This skill allows you to swap your strike rolls when you are attacking multiple targets, as normally you must state what order you are rolling for (usually stated order, or scoreboard order) but this skill allows you to switch it around.
Prerequisites: Spellborn, Emerald Rank
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity, Emerald Rank)

Soul Mate: [Teamwork] You and your chosen soul mate must both take this skill to benefit from it. You develop a sixth sense that warns you whenever your soul mate is in danger as well as a +5 bonus to all skill checks targeting your soul mate (for instance, if your soul mate was kidnapped, you sense she is in danger so you Gather Info, or do Perception checks to find her, you gain the bonus). Finally, any effect that compels you to directly harm your soul mate is immediately dispelled.

Soul Slice : Upon a successful Strike, you may touch your opponent with your body or holy weapon and cause the target's soul to dis-join from his body, causing him to fall prone and become helpless for 1 round of combat, this does no damage. An opposed save is made, 1d20 + their Willpower Bonus against your 1d20 + Charisma Bonus.
Prerequisite: Paladin, Priest, or Monk, Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V - Emerald Rank)

Sound of Music : While the bard is performing, they are so absorbed into their performance that their mind cannot be bothered by anything else. While playing, a bard with this skill is immune to all mind-affecting effects.
Prerequisite: Bard (Primary) only AND Ruby Rank

Speak with Dead Animals: A Dark Side Druid can converse with dead animals, and can be used as many times a day as half their Intelligence Bonus.
Prerequisite: Evil Druid Only
(V - Evil Alignment)
FLAVOR

Speed of a Cheetah : You can run as fast as a cheetah for short bursts of speed. Cheetahs can run up to 70/75 miles an hour and can go from 0 to 62mph in 3 seconds. This gives you a +5 to any Quickness checks you are asked to make (this is just for checks such as for avoiding damage, not your Quickness Trait).
(CC)
(R)

Spellborn Body : Your mind reinforces your body. For every gemstone level you reach, you may add 1 extra hit point. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Spellborn
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Spellbreaker : When you pass a spell save against a spellcaster's registered spell, you gain a counter attack immediately against the spellcaster, once per combat. You must pass strike, and proceed as a normal attack.
(CC)

Spellcasters Unite [Teamwork]
At the beginning of a quest or mission, during the initial state, you must choose whether you are going to add to all magical damage of teammates with this teamwork skill, or add to your Defense DC. Choose +5 to all magical damage, or a +1 to Defense DC (not to exceed limits). Both cannot be in use during the same quest, so it would be a good idea to discuss in IM with anyone else that has this skill to decide whether you want damage, or ddc boost because the first person that states this teamwork skill and chooses, that is what everyone who has this teamwork skill gets for the rest of the quest!
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity
COMBAT

Spell Combatant : You have learned to cast spells and wield your weapon at the same time. You may wield a light or one-handed weapon, or one-handed tech in one hand, while using your off-hand to attack with magic during combat against one target. You still base strike and damage off your melee weapon or tech. This is a constant effect. Additionally, once per combat you may not only add your normal bonus to your melee damage against the target, but your Intelligence bonus to your magic attack as well to the same target. This is for non-registered spells only in your off-hand.
Prerequisites: Magical or Psionic Affinity, Amber Rank

Spell Feint: You are able to fool your target into thinking you are casting a spell, only to surprise them with a melee or ranged attack instead. This attack gains an extra 1d to your combat dice once per combat.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary)
COMBAT - Extra 1d

Spell Sponge: Whenever your owner target's you with a beneficial spell, the spell's duration is doubled. You may use this once per adventure.
(CC - Familiar Only)

Spelunker : You are knowledgeable about the secrets of the subterranean world and wise in its ways. +10 to any Knowledge check dealing with subterranean passages or creatures from beneath the earth.
FLAVOR
(R)

Spirit Armor : This spell allows the druid to be surrounded by a portion of his own life's essence which takes the form of a shimmering aura. It gives protection against magical and non-magical attacks with a boost of +3 to your defense. It doesn't add on any weight to the druid, and it doesn't interfere with any other spellcasting, but it does count as magical and mundane. At Emerald, the defense improves to +4, at Obsidian to +5 and at Diamond to +6. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary) Only
DEFENSE

Spiritbind : The shaman can bind spirits to his will or make them tremble in his wake. He gains the supernatural ability to rebuke or command certain creatures by rolling an opposed Willpower roll, if the shaman rolls higher then the spirit is either bound to serve the shaman for one round, or rebuked and unable to make any actions for one round. The shaman may spiritbind a number of times per day equal to his Charisma bonus. For each gemstone rank, select one of the following spirit types to affect:
-Animal Spirits (Animals)
-Fire Spirits (Fire Elementals)
-Mountain Spirits (Earth Elementals)
-Nature Spirits (Fey)
-River Spirits (Water Elementals and Nixies)
-Spirits of the Dead (Undead)
-Tree Spirits (Plants and Dryads)
-Wind Spirits (Air Elementals)
Prerequisites: Shaman

Spirited Charge: When mounted, you deal double weapon damage once per combat with a melee weapon, and triple weapon damage once per combat with a polearm such as a lance. Roll your weapon damage, and double or triple the total you've rolled. Such as rolling 2dmg, doubled would be 4dmg. Tripled would be 6dmg.
Prerequisite: Mounted Combat, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Spirit of Life: The spirit of a golden owl alights on your ally’s shoulder and flutters off, carrying with it that friend’s aches and wounds. This heals up to as many points as your Intelligence Bonus, and can be used once per combat, whether it is your turn on the scoreboard or not, and can be used to bring someone back from the brink of death if they are not over 5 points past their max hit points.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary)

Spirit of the Hawk's Wind: A wind sweeps over the area as a shining hawk spirit swoops down on your foe. As the spirit beats its wings, it creates gusts that lift your allies aloft, allowing them to move in safety. This can be used once per adventure to lift you and your allies over difficult terrain, or to simply allow your allies to shift places on the battlefield.
Prerequisite: Mystic (Primary), Emerald Rank

Spirit-Scarred: You are skilled at fighting the incorporeal undead, such as ghosts and spirits. You gain a +5 damage against such creatures, and a +2 to all saving throws against spells and abilities from incorporeal undead.
Prerequisite: Priest
COMBAT
(V)
(CC - Combatant Profession)

Spirit Strike : Allows the character to use their weapons (or unarmed) to attack opponents that have no physical form (ie: ghosts, astral beings, shadows etc.). Will take regular penalties for not being able to see the opponent if they have no way of seeing, this only lets them hit them without other enhancements. This is a constant skill.
COMBAT
(CC - Magical Profession)

Spirit Walker: A shaman's form becomes a dual existence, both the physical and spiritual link through space and time from the other-world to the material plane. However, a shaman may use his powerful magics to retract this link and cause a shift in his physical form as he is thrown into the realm of the bad spirits. This allows the shaman to become partially insubstantial, taking half damage from one melee or ranged attack, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Shaman (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Spiritual Sentinel - Spirits of nature alert you to impending danger when in an outdoor setting. You can never be caught off guard or surprised by enemies while in your favored terrain. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Favored Terrain and Ranger Profession
FLAVOR

Split Hex : This skill allows you to target 1d3 extra creatures with any hex you have chosen per the Hex skill.
Prerequisite: Hex Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Split Boon : This skill allows you to target 1d3 extra creatures with any boon you have chosen per the Boon skill.
Prerequisite: Boon Skill, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Spontaneous Healer : This allows a healer to heal up to 5 points in between their turns 3/combat.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary) Profession Only, Emerald Rank

Spread Gossip: Instead of gaining information with a Gather Information check, a noble can plant it. He can spread rumors and false information by meeting a DC appropriate to the quality of the information, per the DM. If successful, the information enters the rumor mill and will have consequences in one or more days, depending on the gossip’s detail and the DM's judgement. This can be done once every two weeks.
Prerequisite: Noble, Ruby Rank
(V - Ruby Rank)
FLAVOR

Stable Gallop: You run with a smooth and steady gait, and your footing is secure even in unstable terrain. You do not have to roll any checks for running across unstable terrain.
(CC - Mount or Combat Mount Profession)
FLAVOR

Staccato : A bard's Riff skill can be used every turn if they so desire.
Prerequisite: Allegro Skill AND Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Stand Still : You can prevent foes from fleeing or charging you. When a foe tries to run away, or charge towards you, you may attempt to stop your foe in his tracks even if it is not your turn of combat. Roll a Strike, if you make the strike against the target, they immediately halt and cannot make any other movements except to attack and defend where they are standing for one round.
Prerequisites: Spellborn, Psion
(V - Psionic Affinity)

Stare Down : When you render an opponent unconscious or dead, you may choose one target of the same or lower gemstone rank than you that is still standing to immediately intimidate with just a stare. You may roll an Intimidate Check, if you pass the check by 5 or more points, your target drops his weapon or stops what he is doing and surrenders. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Startling Shot: You may purposely miss a creature that you could normally hit within range with a firearm attack, once per combat. When you do, that creature is startled and has DC10 until the start of the creature's next turn.
Prerequisite: Use a gun
COMBAT

Status Debuff: This allows you to remove status effects such as stun, paralyzation, or other types of holds from their allies. A person with this skill may only remove a status effect done by a creature of equal or lesser dice than themselves. How many rounds of status effects you can remove per combat is done by gemstone rank: Crystal and Topaz: 1 round, Amber and Sapphire: 2 rounds, Emerald and Ruby: 3 rounds, Obsidian: 4 rounds. You may split this up as you like, as long as you do not exceed the total number of rounds you are allowed to debuff. You may not use this on yourself.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary or Secondary), Priest (Primary or Secondary), Monk (Primary or Secondary) or Druid (Primary or Secondary)
No Versatility

Steadfast Resistance: Those that feel the draw to melee combat have never been found wanting in their ability to defend or assault mundane challenges. One thing they found, was that their steel would not save them from a spell. In time, they hardened themselves, either through steadfast will, raw determination, divine devotion or even furious rage in an effort to stem the effect of a magical assault. This skill allows for them to automatically pass a spell save. Once per combat.
Prerequisite: Combat Class (Primary), Ruby Rank

Steal Memories : Whenever a creature is killed, the shaman may gain access to all its memories (such as the password to a gate etc.) but not feats, skills or spells. This must be used within one round of the creature's death, and work with the DM to see what it is you will find out, and if it is useful.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary)
FLAVOR

Stealth : This skill gives you a +5 to Stealth rolls on opposed tests for someone trying to detect the character.
(CC)
(R)

Stealth Synergy: The group will take the highest roll made for a Stealth Check and that will count for the entire group of allies.

Steel Skin : You have learned how to parry while unarmed, enabling you to block sword blows with your open hand. When you do so, you avoid damage to your own hand or body. Taking no damage from the blow. You must be unarmed, and attacked with a weapon to use this skill. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler
DEFENSE - Evade
(V)

Steel Soul: A steel soul monk has chosen to forgo the use of unarmed attacks and instead chooses a weapon to use, which gains all the boosts from the Monk Profession's "Chi Blow" ability. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Monk
COMBAT

Stigmata : A Vindicator willingly gives his blood in service to his faith, and is marked by scarified wounds appropriate to his deity. He may start or stop the flow of blood by force of will. Activating the Stigmata causes the Vindicator to take 5 points of damage that cannot be healed by magical means or potions. While the Stigmata is bleeding, the Vindicator gains a sacred bonus (if he channels positive energy) or profane bonus (if he channels negative energy) of +3. This bonus can be used for a bonus to damage, defense, magic damage, or saving rolls but one of these must be decided when activating the Stigmata.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary)
COMBAT

Stitch in Time : You are able to return damaged or otherwise altered objects to its prior state. The object must have been broken or had its condition changed within 5 minutes (per level of chronomancer) of the spell for it to work. Uses for Stitch in Time include "unbreaking" a window, unlocking a door that someone just locked, mending a broken weapon in combat or otherwise.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
FLAVOR

Stoneskin: Obsidimen have natural armor of +15 DEF, which is counted as Medium Armor, giving you a -5 Initiative Penalty, your max quickness can be 12, and your defense cap is 30. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Obsidiman Racial
(R)

Stop Bleeding: You make a firearm attack and then press the hot barrel against yourself or an adjacent creature to staunch a bleeding wound. This allows you to heal up to 5hp, once per combat. You do not have to attack someone when using the skill if you do not wish; you can instead shoot the firearm into the air, but that shot still uses up ammunition normally.
Prerequisites: Use gunpowder weapon
COMBAT

Story Collector : You've heard so many tales of legendary monsters that you remember all sorts of gory details, including immunities and best way to kill. You are able to know basic information about any common monster your group faces (work with DM), and gain a +5 to any checks to know information about uncommon or rare creatures.
Prerequisites: Knowledge (Monster Lore) AND Sapphire Rank
FLAVOR

Strange Blood: The wereshark can smell the blood of a target and identify them as a supernatural being. They are able to tell if it is a mundane being (be it fish, human, or whatever) or a supernatural being. They don't automatically know what the being is — that is, the DM should not say "He's a vampire," rather, she should describe what the wereshark smells ("His blood smells thick and clotted, as though all clumped together instead of flowing"). The wereshark can learn to recognize different beings by their scents.
Prerequisites: Wereshark
FLAVOR
(R)

Stretching the Canvas: Sometimes brute force is the better way. Once per day, the Black Mage may merge with his Undead Cohort as a full-round action, becoming one fearsome entity. During this merger, the cohort flays the Black Mage down the back, crawling inside his flesh. However, the flesh doesn't grow to accommodate, and so covers only a portion of your Cohort, leaving a horrible stretched distortion of his facade. As unsettling and awkward as it seems, your power grows considerably. You are able to use any skills that the Cohort has taken as your own, and gain a +2 to your Defense DC.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary), Undead Cohort, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Strike Me Instead! : There are some times when you simply cannot move fast enough or cover enough ground to take a hit for a weaker ally. This skill allows you to whisper a prayer to your deity, redirecting any type of attack - ranged, melee, magic to hit you instead of your ally. Arrows change direction in flight, enemies with melee weapons find their feet taking them to you instead of their chosen target, and magic is quickly redirected off it's set course to you. You may use this once per combat.
Prerequisites: Devout Class
COMBAT

Strong as an Ox : You are stronger than your average, everyday person of your race, able to pick up twice what you normally would be able to. This gives you a +5 to all Strength check rolls. This is only for strength based checks, this does not add to your Strength Trait.
(CC)
(R)

Stronghold: By knowing the right nobles, making contacts with masons and artisans, or performing great deeds for a liege-lord, you have resources that help you build and expand your stronghold without any cost out of your own pocket. At Sapphire Rank, you gain a Villa and enchantments equal to 6 points. At Emerald, your dwelling increases to Manor, and you can add 1 point of enchantments. At Ruby, you gain a Keep/Castle and you gain 2 more points of enchantments. At Obsidian, you have a Palace/Chateau and gain 1 more point of enchantments.
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Sapphire Rank

Strong Stomach : You cannot become nauseated. If you are exposed to an effect or condition that would normally make you nauseated, merely feel a bit sick.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Stunning Glance: Looking directly at the nymph she can temporarily stun them, if they fail their Willpower save of DC10 + Nymph's Charisma.
This grows in power per Lose Turn skill standards.
Prerequisite: Nymph Racial
COMBAT
(R)

Stylish Hat: Swashbucklers wear stylish hats. If a swashbuckler throws the hat during their turn, everyone paying attention to the swashbuckler (DM may decide) must make a save of DC15 or lose their concentration for a moment, provoking an attack from the swashbuckler.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler AND Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - Sapphire Rank)

Subsonic: You can perform so softly that opponents do not notice it, yet your allies still gain all the usual benefits from your bardic talents. Similarly, you can affect opponents within range with your performance, and unless they can see you performing or have some other means of discovering it, they cannot determine the source of the effect.
Prerequisite: Bard, Amber Rank
COMBAT
(V - Amber Rank)

Sudden Charge: Caution, planning, training, all of it carried the fighter to that one moment. That one second in battle when his enemy steps into the deception. The fighter lashes out with a quick and unexpected attack that stagger and stun their target. Once per combat, target loses one turn if they fail their Endurance save of DC10 + Fighter's QCK.
Prerequisite: Fighter (Primary)
COMBAT

Summoner's Hand : A mage of the summoner ilk has learned how to fight in battle alongside one of his/her summoned creatures. While fighting in battle with a summoned creature, both the summoner and the summoned gain a +1 to Strike, and the summoned creature is able to use the mage's magic bonus. This lasts as long as the summoned creature is fighting with the mage.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class (Primary), Use of Summons
COMBAT

Sun and Moon : The tattoos of a sun and moon upon a mystic's body allows them to charge their weapons with either silver (moon) or gold (sun) for one full combat. Once they've chosen for that combat it cannot be changed until after the combat is completed.
Prerequisites: Mystic (Primary)
COMBAT

Sunder: Once a day fighter may destroy a weapon or armor worn by a foe. The item cannot be repaired, must be bought again (legacy returns next day). Renders weapon or armor useless and therefore giving the owner of the destroyed item no boost or extra dice. The target also receives the damage from the attack. Only enchanted weapons can break enchanted items, only legacy can sunder legacy.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Sunder Natural Weapon: You have experienced many battles against wild animals and vicious monsters that fight with claws and fangs. You’ve learned a few special moves that allow you to cripple a creature’s natural attacks. Using the same rules for the Sunder skill, once a day you may cripple a creature's natural attack. It renders the natural attack useless and therefore giving the owner of the useless attack no boost or extra dice. The target also receives the damage from the sunder attack. Only an unarmed tech may sunder another unarmed tech.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Shaman (Primary), Mystic (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(CC)

Sun-Hardened Skin : A desertfolk's skin has grown rough and thickened from the heat of the desert sun. This gives the desertfolk a natural boost of +3 to mundane defense. At Emerald it increases to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Desertfolk
DEFENSE
(R)

Superior Tactics: Once per adventure, after a noble and his allies roll initiatives, the noble can arrange his and his allies’ rolls any way he wishes (work with the DM and know how you want it arranged before you ask).
Prerequisites: Noble (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Suplex : You may attempt to grab your opponent, stand him straight up in the air, and fall backwards, slamming him into the floor. This does double your strength bonus and the target ends up prone in the space behind you, causing him to lose a turn. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler
COMBAT
(V)

Surprise Strike : As long as the Thief is not detected by the enemy, they can use this skill, which allows an extra roll of weapon damage if the attack hits. (ie: roll 2d4 with a dagger rather than 1d4, etc.) Can only be used once per combat.
Prerequsite: Thief Adept or Swordmaster
COMBAT
(V)

Subtle Interrogation: You have the ability to acquire minor levels of aid from anyone you meet, coaxing information or small favors from established informants or even from chance acquaintances. Once per day, when trying to convince an NPC of something using either the Diplomacy or Bluff skills, you can use this skill and shift the NPC's attitude one step more favorably towards him; see how Diplomacy works. The target may still have an overall reluctance to relinquish information or favors but he will be more inclined to do so than he was before.
Prerequisite: CHA 10

Swamp Child : You have spent years in the swamps of Madder. You can find food and shelter in the deep swamps, and you can move more freely through the difficult terrain. You gain a +2 to Spot, Search and Listen in swamps, you will never starve in the swamps and marshes and you have no issue moving across the terrain.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Swarm Druid: A swarm druid is able to turn into a swarm of small animals or insects, instead of one creature. This skill also gives the swarm druid, while in swarm form, the ability to evade half damage from any melee or ranged attack, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Druid
COMBAT
(V)

Swaying Willow : Just as the wind moves the branches of the willow, so too can you sway and bend upon the field of combat. As your enemy closes upon you with vicious intent, you allow their momentum to carry you, shifting you out of the way, redirecting their attack's force back upon themselves. Once per combat, you may turn the damage meant for you back upon your attacker.
Prerequisite: Ranger (Primary) & Sapphire Rank
COMBAT - Reflect

Swift Scrivener : You are able to scribe two scrolls for the cost of one. This can be used five times in one week.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class (Primary), Scribe Scroll Skill, Sapphire Rank

Swiftwing Flight: Kestrels are swift, flying twice as fast as most humans walk, provided they are not wearing Heavy Armor, and are not Fatigued or Exhausted. In heavy armor they fly as fast as they can walk. Kestrel wings span an average of 10-12 feet, and are unable to fly in an area where they cannot fully extend their wings. They can use their wings to glide, negating damage from falls as long as they can use their wings.If a kestrel becomes unconscious or helpless while in midair, their wings naturally unfurl and powerful ligaments stiffen the wings. The kestrel descends in a tight corkscrew and takes only 1d6 points of falling damage, no matter what the actual distance of the fall.
Prerequisite: Kestrel Racial
(R)

Sword and Board : Rather than swinging two weapons, or using a two-handed weapon, you've chosen to use a shield in your off-hand, making you a dangerous foe. Whatever defense bonus you have for your chosen shield, you may double that in as a bonus to your damage. I.E. If you have a Light Wooden Shield that gives you a +1 Def, you may add a +2 to your damage. A heavy steel shield that gives +5, allows you to add +10 damage. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Knight, Paladin, Fighter or Priest, Must use shield
COMBAT
(V - Use shield)

Sword and Pistol : You effortlessly pair melee and ranged weaponry. You can wield a light or one-handed melee weapon in one hand, and a firearm or hand crossbow in your other hand. You may choose to either add your Quickness, OR your Strength bonus to your attack while using both weapons. Normally, you add QCK to your ranged damage, and STR to any melee damage. This allows you to choose which one even though you are using a ranged and a melee weapon. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Dual Wield
COMBAT

Swordsman's Folly : The enemy rushing at you will realize his mistake after your shot hurtles him back to square one. Once per combat, a melee attack meant for you is not only evaded, but you do damage to your would-be attacker in the amount of damage of your gunpowder weapon roll only (no defense allowed).
Prerequisite: Use a gunpowder weapon.

Synesthete: You receive one kind of sensory input when a different sense is stimulated. In particular, you can either feel light, feel sound, or even see sound as colors. You can shift your stimulated sense between these options once per round without it taking up your turn of combat. Your senses continue to work normally as well, unless they are impaired for some reason (such as being Blind or Deaf). Your face must be uncovered to use this power, because it is the skin of your face that acts as the sensory receiver.
If you are feeling light by absorbing ambient light onto your skin and your eyes work normally, you gain a +2 to all visual Perception Checks. While feeling light, you are immune to gaze attacks. If you are feeling sound or seeing sound as colors by absorbing sound onto your skin and your ears are working normally, the expanded audio input provides you with a +2 to Listen Checks. Certain magical or psionic effects, invisibility, illusions, and other similar effects confuse your synesthete senses just as they would your normal senses.
You can also use this power to see sound if you are Deaf, or hear light if you are Blind, though it does not remove any flaw penalties, it can be worked into your roleplay as flavor effects.
Prerequisites: Topaz Rank
FLAVOR

Tactician's Sense: Your mind is as sharp as any blade, as fleet as any arrow sent forth from a bow. In the field of combat, you do not see an opponent, armor or even a weapon. You see patterns and anomalies. Your mind able to decipher when the exact moment is that you should attack. This skill allows you to use your Intelligence to your Strike roll instead of your Quickness. This is an innate skill.

Tag Team Fighting: [Teamwork] If you hit an opponent with a melee attack, until your next turn, the next melee strike roll made by any ally with the Tag Team Fighting skill as well gets a +2 bonus to their strike roll against any opponent.
COMBAT

Tail Attack: Once per combat, you may add a tail attack to your full attack and add in your trait bonus a second time. You can also wield a light weapon ONLY with your tail.
Prerequisites: T'skrang Racial
(R)

Tail Dance : The Tail Dance allows a t'skrang to use his Tail Attack racial ability and bypass any mundane defenses their target may have, once per combat.
Prerequisites: T'skrang
COMBAT
(R)

Tail Sweep : The Tail Sweep skill allows a creature with a powerful tail to sweep an opponent’s legs with his tail and knock him down, causing him to need to take one round of combat to right himself again. If your Strike is successful, they are knocked down for one round only as well as doing damage from the attack.
Prerequisites: Race with a Powerful Tail, such as t'skrang or dragon
COMBAT
(CC - Powerful Tail)
(R)

Take the Lead: This allows a dedicated healer to be placed first on the scoreboard, or gives them a +5 to Initiative Rolls when needed.
Prerequisite: Healer
FLAVOR

Taking Charge: A dedicated tank's job is to make sure that the enemy is focused on him/her and sometimes it's hard to do that with all of the damage dealers going first. This skill allows a tank to take the first spot on the scoreboard or gives them second place if another skill like this is used.
Prerequisites: Knight, Fighter or Paladin AND Compel Hostility or Incite to Anger skills
FLAVOR
(V - Compel Hostility or Incite to Anger )

Taunt : Being in a combative environment for most of your waking hours not only trains the body, but it sharpens the mind. The brawlers tongue is just as effective as his fists inside the ring. Using profanity that would make the devil himself blush, the brawler speaks an insult so crude it bewilders their opponent. And while their victim is trying to figure out what their mother was doing with a goat, an ear of corn, some barber shears, a mop, and a knights helmet, the gladiator rushes in waylaying them with the first blow. This gives a brawler first strike in any one-on-one combat.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary)

Team Initiative: [Teamwork] You and your ally coordinate your efforts with precise timing. After rolling for initiative but before combat begins, you can choose to alter your initiative so you can act immediately before or after an ally who also has this skill.

Telepathy : You can speak to any sentient creature telepathically and understand them in the same manner. If the other humanoid cannot speak their language however, communication might be difficult at best.
Prerequisite: Psionic Affinity
FLAVOR
(CC - Magical Profession)
(R)

Teleport : This skill gives you the ability to teleport yourself as long as you have the exact location in mind. This pulls the caster into a portal, bending time/space around them, and popping them out of the other side at the desired location. With each gemstone rank you achieve you can take one person with you.
Prerequisite: Arcane Class
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
FLAVOR

Teleportation Passport : A noble has struck a deal with the teleportation guild (Port Union) and can teleport free between the kingdoms. At no time does a noble need pay for transportation.
Prerequisite: Noble
(V)
FLAVOR

Teleport Tactician : You are highly alert for enemies using teleportation to approach you. Any creature using a teleportation effect to approach you does not have the ability to surprise you. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Alert Skill

Tempest: There are times when a fighter is simply outnumbered, though that does not always mean they are at a disadvantage. Years on the battlefield have taught the fighter how to assault not just one, but numerous foes in rapid succession. Once per combat the fighter may roll a 1d4 to attack additional enemies in a round.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Tenacious Magic : Once per day, any spell that you have cast outside of combat, is not affected by dispel magic or any skill that ends your spell. Nothing that anyone can do, will cause it to dispel before it's time is up.
Prerequisite: Mage AND Ruby Rank
(V - Magical Affinity, Ruby Rank)

Tenacious Pursuit : A bloodhound tracking a mark moves twice as fast as normal, allowing them to catch up to a mark in record time. He takes no penalties for moving silently, or hide during this pursuit at higher speeds.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound
FLAVOR

Thanatopic Spell : Your spells are able to affect undead targets that otherwise would not be affected by your spells.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary) or Black Mage (Primary), Mystic (Primary), Amber Rank

The Final Strike: A fighter knows the signs that a foe has suffered enough damage to be weakened considerably. The fighter takes that moment to pounce upon their adversary and deliver a deadly attack. If a foe is knocked down to half hp, you may do a coup de grace regardless if they are helpless or not.
Prerequisites: Fighter (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

The Finer Things: Art, culture, cuisine, jewelry – the noble enjoys the finer things in life. He may replace any of his normal gear slots with either an extra ring, or amulet/necklace. He loses the gear slot that is replaced. So, for instance, if he decides he wants to use his Head slot for an extra ring, he no longer can wear anything in the head slot.
Prerequisite: Noble (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

The Heavens Smile : Paladins are recognized by their deity as one of the greatest and most devoted followers they have, as well as a powerful force of their will. Your holy weapon increases it's damage for one round of combat giving you an extra 1d to your Weapon Damage only. So, for instance, a dagger that does 1d4 would do 2d4.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary) or Priest (Primary)
COMBAT

The Perfect Cut : For all your twirling and ducking, for all your twisting and flipping around, nobody expects your true intent. Nobody knows that you are waiting for that one opening. That one lapse in your opponent's defense where you can move in and hit perfectly. Once per combat, you may roll your attack dice twice.
Prerequisite: Swashbuckler (Primary) & Amber Rank
COMBAT - Double Roll

Theurgic Submersion : Magic simply congeals around the mage, flowing over him like liquid and protecting him from harm. This grants the mage a boost of +3 to mundane and magical Defense throughout combat. At Emerald, the defense improves to +4, at Obsidian to +5, and at Diamond to +6. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Black Mage or Mage
DEFENSE
(V - Magical Affinity)

Thick-Skinned: This skill gives your animal companion or familiar a natural defense of +5 DEF. You must abide by the max defense rules of armor, if your companion does not wear armor the max defense is +20 DEF. Light, Medium and Heavy armor have their own rules, please see the Armor section.
(CC - Only)

Thick Skull: You are such a powerhouse that you can headbutt an armored foe and feel nothing. You gain the ability to use a headbutt with any other unarmed attack once per combat that deals 1d5 extra damage.
COMBAT

Thievery : The thief is a cunning type of person. They see an opportunity and exploit it. With a successful unarmed or short weapon attack (dagger, bladed gloves, etc) the thief not only hurts their target but also steals some of their gold. The number rolled by both dice on the attack roll is also the amount of the victim's gold that was lifted. (ie: a roll of 20 20 would yield 40 gold). They must have one hand open, meaning that they are not holding a weapon or another object. At Sapphire Rank, you may double the gold stolen (so a roll of 20 20 would yield 40x2=80gp). At Ruby you may triple the gold stolen, and at Obsidian you quadruple the gold stolen. One time use in combat.
Prerequisite: No Lawful or Neutral Good Alignments
COMBAT
FLAVOR

Third Time's the Charm: You may roll a third time after using any luck skill or item, and take the best out of three rolls. This can be used once per day.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Ruby Rank

Threefold Mind: You gain the following bonuses for the three different minds you can access. Overmind: +2 to all Knowledge Checks. Collective Mind: Once per adventure, you may add your Intelligence Bonus to a willpower check instead of using your Willpower. Oracle Mind: Once per combat, you may reroll your Strike and take the better roll.
Prerequisites: Synad Racial
(R)

Thresher: Weaponless fighters bent on gruesome victories, preferring the intimacy of a barehanded kill. Close enough to taunt their opponents in whispers while crushing the life out of them, to smell their fear, and to watch the despair creep over their faces when they realize just how useless it was to fight them. Terrifying are those that have reached this level, able to continue swinging and attacking with savage tenacity. The first attack rolled when using this skill is treated as normal. After strike and damage is rolled, continue to attack until miss is rolled, each attack adding a -2 to Strike. So, if you attack a second time, -2 Strike. Third time, -4 to Strike. Fourth time, -6 to Strike, and so on. No other skills allowed to be used, only tech, strength, class bonuses, and innate skills apply to any attacks after the first.
Prerequisites: Brawler (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Thrice Keelhauled : Swashbuckling pirates are used to being keelhauled, it's a hobby to them. The Swashbuckler can breathe underwater and on land, and can swim as fast as they can run. They do not take any penalties for fighting in water.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler, or permission if you play a bonafide pirate.
FLAVOR

Thrilling Escape : A rogue can attempt to delay a trap immediately after it has been triggered, by making a Disable Device roll against the device's DC. If successful, the trap's activation is delayed until the end of the rogue's next turn. This can be used even if the trap was triggered by a failed Disable Device check, or if it was triggered by someone else in his party. This can be done once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Emerald Rank

Throat Threat: If a target is dazed or stunned in any way causing their DC to be 10, you may attempt to catch an enemy off-guard, and take him hostage in melee combat. Your blade remains pressed against his throat, a flick of your wrist away from a lethal cut. You cannot be engaged in combat with any other foes when you initiate the throat threat and you must be wielding a slashing or piercing melee weapon (typically a dagger but not limited to it). Your target immediately becomes aware of you when you attempt to throat threat, no longer stunned or dazed. Roll opposing Strength checks, if your roll is higher than the target you now have that target as a hostage. You can release the throat threat at any time, but if you continue to hold the threat, you must make an opposed STR check each round to maintain the throat threat (unless you have Dexterous Fighter, then it is an opposed QCK roll). If your target attempts any action you are aware of or any of the target's allies attack you, you may choose to immediately attack your target without strike needed, auto critical damage, with that weapon only. You may only throat threat a target your size or one size smaller, and only once per combat.
Prerequisites: STR 10, or Dexterous Fighter with QCK 10
COMBAT

Timeless Body : A druid no longer ages, nor can she be magically aged by any means. They still die when their time is up. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Tomb-Taint: You are healed by negative energy, and take damage from positive energy instead much like undead. This is an innate skill.
FLAVOR
(CC - Undead Companion)
(R)

Tongue of the Sun and Moon: You are able to converse with any living creature in their natural tongue, though it does not allow you to read these languages.
Prerequisites: Monk, Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

To the Bitter End : You can continue to fight even after taking damage that would kill another person. You are not knocked out at 0 hit points, and instead can fight until -10 hit points, though each round you fight below 0 hit points you must make an Endurance Save of DC10 + however many hit points you are over 0. So if you have -3 hit points, you must roll an Endurance of DC13. If you fail your check, you fall immediately dead.
Prerequisite: Combat Class AND Ruby Rank
COMBAT
(V - Ruby Rank)
(CC - Combatant Profession, Ruby Rank)

Touch of Surrender: When a monk makes an attack against any foe that would kill them, he may instead show mercy and force surrender instead. The target becomes charmed, and is unable to make any attacks against the monk or his allies for one hour plus one hour per monk's Charisma Bonus or until the monk uses this skill on another target if the duration has not ended. A monk may only have one charmed enemy at at time.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Touch of Veracity: You may choose one target, and with a touch they gain a visible rune upon their forehead for the duration of this skill which causes them to only tell the truth for 15 minutes per point of your Charisma Bonus. They may make a Willpower Save against DC10 + Your Charisma, if they fail they are under the effects for the duration.
Prerequisites: Zone of Truth Skill
FLAVOR

Touchsight: You generate a subtle telekinetic field of mental contact, allowing you to “feel” your surroundings even in total darkness or when your sight would otherwise be obscured by your physical environment. Your touchsight field emanates from you out to 60 feet. You ignore invisibility, darkness, and concealment, though you must have line of effect to a creature or an object to discern it. You do not need to make Spot or Listen checks to notice creatures; you can detect and pinpoint all creatures within 60 feet. In many circumstances, comparing your regular senses to what you learn with touchsight is enough to tell you the difference between visible,invisible, hiding and concealed creatures.
Prerequisites: Psion (Primary) or Spellborn (Primary), Ruby Rank
FLAVOR

Tough as Bone: A Black Mage at this level has taken on some qualities of an undead creature, making him immune to disease, and illness. Non-lethal damage does nothing to the Black Mage. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary), Ruby Rank

Toxic Affinity: Your saliva and blood are toxic, and can be applied to a weapon, giving that weapon an extra 2d3 damage. This can be used once per combat. This also allows a vishkanya who takes Alchemy to have Poisonmaking for free.
Prerequisites: Vishkanya Racial
(R)

Toxic Skin: Once per day, a grippli can create a poison that can be applied to a weapon or delivered as a melee attack. Alternatively, the grippli can smear the poison on its own body (this takes a round of combat), affecting the first creature to hit it with an unarmed hit or natural weapon. The poison loses its potency after 1 hour of not being used. The grippli is immune to its own poison. Grippli Poison: Skin or weapon—contact or injury; DC12+Gemstone Rank Endurance save (so at Crystal it would be 12+1 = 13); effect 1d4 Quickness Bonus Debuff. A cure poison must be gained to regain the lost Quickness points.
Prerequisite: Grippli Race Only
(R)

Track : You can follow the trails of creatures and characters across most types of terrain if they leave some sort of trail. Rangers get this skill from their profession.
Prerequisite: Druid OR Bloodhound
(V)
FLAVOR
(CC)

Track the Trackless : A bloodhound of high enough rank can track a creature even if they have trackless step, or under the influence of a spell or magic item that allows them to leave no trace.
Prerequisites: Bloodhound (Primary) only AND Sapphire Rank
FLAVOR
(CC - Tracking Profession, Sapphire Rank)

Trackless Step : You can move without leaving footprints or any type of track behind him, therefore allowing him to move freely without fear of being found and followed.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Transcend Suffering: A monk is able to survive comfortably in conditions between -50 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit (-45 and 60 degrees Celsius) without having to make any Endurance saves.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Trap Detection : You are able to detect traps and snares in the vicinity with relative ease. This gives a +5 to Search checks made for trap detection.
Prerequisite: Druid, Ranger, Bloodhound or Bard
(V)
(CC - Supportive or Sneak Profession)

Trap Initiative : This allows the Thief to move after setting off a trap, but before the trap actually activates, allowing them a last-ditch shot at getting to cover. If while attempting to seek or disarm a trap the Thief sets it off, the DM and the Thief roll 1d20, the Thief adding quickness to the roll. If the DM's roll is higher, the trap hits as usual. If the Thief's roll is higher, they have a chance to get out of range of the trap, or take cover behind something, within reason. Whether anything is around to get behind, and the range of the trap is all determined by the DM. Deals 1 point of strain damage when used.
Prerequsite: Thief Adept AND Amber rank
(V - Amber Rank)

Trap Wrecker : You can disarm a mundane trap with brute force. Once per adventure, if a trap has been detected and found, a brawler may simply disarm the trap by smashing the thing to bits with their brute force.
Prerequisite: Brawler
(V)
(CC - Combatant Profession, STR 8)

Treasure Hunter : This skill causes you and your party to locate and earn from 1/4 to 1/2 more gold than they would have normally and find a few better pieces of loot (per DM's decision how much extra you earn!). This can be used once per week, and only one person per mission or quest can use it for that quest.
Prerequisite: Rogue or Noble, or Goblin Race
(V)
(CC - Supportive Profession)
(R - Goblin)

Treasure Scent : This is a supernatural ability that allows you to locate the general direction of treasure worth over 2000gp when within 20 feet, when you pass a Scent (Perception Based) check with a DC set by the DM. You may use this as many times per day as your gemstone level. So at Topaz rank you'd be able to use it twice a day.
Prerequisite: Scent skill
FLAVOR
(CC - Tracking or Sneaky Profession, Scent Skill)
(R)

Treefriend: You are a type of animal that has adapted to a forest environment very well, either because you are naturally from that type of environment or you and your owner spent much time there. This skill gives the animal companion +5 to Climb checks and you can always find your way home in a forest setting.
(CC - Forest type animal)
FLAVOR

Tree Stride : You are able to travel through trees, from tree to tree teleporting between each.
Prerequisites: Ranger
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)
FLAVOR

Tribal Dance: The shaman learns tribal dances that augment his magic. Performing the appropriate tribal dance immediately before casting certain spells imbues the spell cast with one of several effects. You may only use one tribal dance per combat. You learn new tribal dances as you increase in gemstone rank.
(Topaz) Bone Dance: The shaman can perform the bone dance, a menacing, frightening series of juts and screeches, accompanied by the violent shaking of bones, a skull on a stick, or the carcass of a freshly killed animal. This dance causes any necromancy type spells DC to be increased by +2.
(Amber) Fire Dance: The shaman can perform the fire dance, a vigorous gallop and chant either around an open fire or while holding an open flame (such as a torch). This dance augments any fire or light based spells DC to be increased by +2.
(Sapphire) Medicine Dance: The shaman can perform the medicine dance, a rhythmic, circular shuffle and soft, sorrowful chant. This dance allows a healing or cure spell to be used in combat, and it does not count against your spell use per day/adventure/combat.
(Emerald) Rain Dance: The shaman can perform the rain dance, a pleading, murmured trot, palms and face raised to the sky. This dance causes any electricity, air or water spells to have a +2 to their DC.
(Ruby) War Dance: The shaman can perform the war dance, a howling, spinning, and hooting display of intimidation, prowess, and weaponry, often performed around an open fire or before a group of warriors. This allows the shaman to cast any spell that enhances a weapon or an ally, and it does not count against your spell use per day/adventure/combat.
(Obsidian) You may now use two tribal dances in any one combat.
Prerequisites: Shaman

Tribe Mentality: [Teamwork] You and your allies grant each other mental strength. Both you and your ally must have this skill. When you are both simultaneously subjected to the same enchantment or mind affecting compulsion or effect, you both roll saves and you can use either result.

Tricky Arcanist: A thief adept can use any of their skills at a distance. At Crystal Rank, you may use your skills at a distance of 10 feet away. At Amber, 20 feet. At Emerald, 30 feet. At Ruby 40 feet and at Obsidian 50 feet away. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept (Primary)

Trophy Collector : A shield of black dragon hide, a necklace of kraken teeth, a belt of minotaur fur—these are the intimidating symbols of your trade. You are skilled in preserving portions of defeated enemies and turning them into trophies. The memory of your past accomplishments drives you onward, instilling in you the confidence needed to face still greater foes. When you defeat a foe in combat, you can preserve a part of its body and create a trophy that you can wear or brandish. Wearing trophies from a creature you face in battle gives you a +5 to Intimidation Checks against that creature.
Prerequisite: Artisan Crafting
FLAVOR

True Inspiration: Much like a true artist and master of the performing arts knows how to make one note hang and linger above the crowd, so has the Bard mastered their skill and trade. With one simple note, lyric or sound, the Bard doubles their class boost for the normal duration of their boosts.
Prerequisites: Bard (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

True Resurrection: This allows a priest to bring somebody back from the dead that has been dead up to 100 years. This can even be done if the body has been completely destroyed, as long as you can identify the deceased such as stating their name and birth date. This can also be used if someone has been turned undead and then destroyed. This cannot be used to rezz someone who has died of old age, though.
Prerequisites: Priest (Primary), Improved Rezz Skill, Obsidian Rank

True Seeing : You are able to see all things as they actually are. You can see secret doors hidden by magic, the exact location of creatures or objects that are hiding, see invisible creatures or objects normally and see through illusions. This works for 10 minutes per Gemstone Rank, once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Magical or Psionic Affinity

Twin Soul : If the mage or her familiar is gravely injured or about to die, the soul of the dying one immediately transfers to the other’s body. The two souls share the surviving body peaceably, can communicate freely, and both retain their ability to think and reason. The host may allow the guest soul to take over the body temporarily or reclaim it as a move action. They can persist in this state indefinitely, or the guest can return to its own body (if available) by touch, transfer into a suitable vessel (such as a clone), or take over a dead or debilitated body. If the body is rezzed, or the debilitation wears off, they get a save to push the guest soul out of their body of 1d20 + Willpower vs a DC of 10 + the Mage's Intelligence.
Prerequisite: Mage (Primary), Obsidian Rank

Twisted Avalanche: When a monk is outnumbered, that is not always a bad thing, many monks have learned a fighting stance that allows them to hit more than once target in a round. Once per combat the monk may roll a 1d4 to attack additional enemies in one round.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Twisted Melody : A bard with this skill uses their performance to ridicule and harass the enemy instead of boosting their allies, causing enemies in the hearing range to lose all defensive bonuses for one round of combat. All targets get a DC15 Willpower Save, if they fail they lose all defensive bonuses that round. This can only be used once per combat, and will only effect a target once. This means, if another bard decides to use this in the same combat, they can only attempt to effect those that passed the last time it was used.
Prerequisite: Bard (Primary)
COMBAT

Twisted Script : The indistinct shapes that form this spiral tattoo twist into legible text when scrutinized. Creatures within hearing distance are able to understand the mystic, even if they do not know the language he speaks.
Prerequisite: Mystic, Mystic Tattoo Skill
(V - Mystic Tattoo Skill)
FLAVOR

Two-Handed Expert: You are an expert at hitting hard and powerful blows to your enemies with a two-handed weapon in combat. You may now double your trait bonus to your damage with every attack you make. You may only wield a single two-handed weapon to use this skill. When you take this skill it replaces Two-Handed Weapon on your dossier. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Two-Handed Weapon, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Two-Handed Weapon : You've decided the path to glory lies in cleaving your foes down with a single two-handed weapon. It can be a greatsword, polearm, quarterstaff, or even a massive club as long as it is from the two-handed weapon list. This gives your blows extra oomph allowing you to add in half your trait damage bonus to every attack you make with a two-handed weapon. This is a constant skill.
COMBAT

Two Shield Fighting: You have decided to make an offense out of your defense, and use two shields for your weapons instead of a shield and weapon. Not only do you gain the defensive bonuses for both shields as long as it does not exceed your defense limits, you also gain weapon damage for both of your shields, per the Shield Weapon skill. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Dual Wield, Shield Weapon
COMBAT

Two Wanded : Yes, that says two wanded, not two handed. It allows you to wield TWO wands in combat instead of only one, much like a dual wield skill for a weapon-user. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Magical Affinity
COMBAT

Ultimatum : By pitting his will against an opponent’s, the werebear may reduce his enemy’s actions to two options. (“Fight me now or flee like a rabbit!”) The werebear must get the opponent’s attention. The two then engage in an opposed Willpower roll. Success means that the werebear may present the enemy with two options and the opponent may take no action not specified by the werebear. The werebear cannot make one or both demands clearly suicidal to his opponent. This can be used once per day.
Prerequisites: Any type of bear race such as a werebear, or Bear Beastfolk.
(R)

Unarmed Focus: You have become a master of using a one-handed tech, two-handed tech or dual one-handed techs, and are able to hit with more damage, allowing you to add in half your damage trait bonus to every unarmed attack you make. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Used a one-handed or two-handed tech, or have Double Tech skill
COMBAT

Unarmed Master: You are an expert at hitting hard and powerful unarmed blows to your enemies. You may now double your damage trait bonus for every attack you make with your techs. This is a constant skill and replaces Unarmed Focus in your skill list..
Prerequisites: Unarmed Focus, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Unbonding: A Dark Side Druid can temporarily separate a bonded animal or magical beast (such as an animal companion, familiar, or mount) from its master once per day. The target creature must be within 40 feet of both its master and the Dark Side Druid. If the master fails a Willpower save (DC 10 + Druid's Int Bonus), the bond terminates as if the creature had died. Normally hostile creatures can attack their masters, but that is up to the DM. The bond returns after as many rounds as half the druid's Intelligence Bonus, restoring all benefits, unless the master has a way (skill, loot item) to bind the creature again to them, which takes up a full turn.
Prerequisite: Evil Druid Only (Primary), Ruby Rank

Unbreakable Heart: This skill enables the paladin to gain a +4 bonus to any saves against mind-affecting effects that rely on negative emotions (such as fear, sorrow, rage, etc) or any effect that causes him to turn against his allies. You can still be charmed, or magically controlled but if ordered to harm an ally while under this control you immediately receive another saving throw.
Prerequisites: Paladin (Primary), Ruby Rank

Uncanny Awareness: A thief adept gains the ability to react to danger before her senses would normally allow her to even be aware of it. Once per combat, she can retain her Quickness bonus to her Defense DC even if she has been stunned or otherwise normally made to have a DDC of 10.
Prerequisite: Thief Adept (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Unconditional Power : Disabling conditions do not hold you back as long as you are equal or higher gemstone rank than the attacker. You are able to cause any disabling condition that would effect more than one round of combat to only affect you for one round of combat. If the attack or skill only causes you to be stunned or disabled for one round, you slough that off with ease and the effect does not take place. This can be used only once per day.
Prerequisites: Spellborn, Emerald Rank
(V - Magical/Psionic Affinity)

Undead Cohort: A Black Mage is able to gain the service of a loyal undead cohort. This cohort becomes their Animal Companion, and goes by the rules in the skill: Animal Companion. This skill takes the place of Animal Companion skill, you may not take that skill along with this skill.
Prerequisite: Black Mage (Primary)

Undead Empathy: You are able to use Diplomacy to influence Intelligent Undead. You can also use Diplomacy to attempt to influence Mindless Undead. Mindless Undead begin with the attitude of Hostile. To stop a mindless undead from attacking one round, DC18 (Attitude: Indifferent). To stop a mindless undead under orders from attacking for one round, DC25 (Attitude: Friendly). To make a mindless undead abandon what it has been ordered to guard, DC30 (Attitude: Helpful).
Prerequisites: CHA 10

Undead Manipulator : A Black Mage is able to affect undead creatures as their original race type of equal or lower dice. This means they can use mind-affecting spells such as charm or confusion spells against undead, for instance zombies or skeletons.
Prerequisite: Black Mage
(V - Magical Affinity)

Undead Resistance : A character that chooses this ability, cannot be turned undead. This is an innate skill.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Undeniable - It's a mix of a few things. Physics, training, body mechanics and combat awareness. Sure you can put a weapon in motion, but your threat range remains solely on your foot work. As hard as you swing that weapon, there's always something out there that can stop it cold. But you put all of that behind six feet or more of unrelenting mass, there is no where to run, no fancy foot work to save you. The two handed weapon is going to force through their futile attempts guard. Once per combat, you may make an attack that ignores defense bonuses (skills still apply) upon a successful Melee Strike with a Two-Handed Weapon.
Prerequisites: Two-Handed Weapon Skill, Strength Trait 7, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Underwater Breather : You are able to breathe underwater. This is an innate skill.
FLAVOR
(CC)
(R)

Unforeseen Ally: Witty words, a charming smile, a dash of magical prowess and the Swordmaster can turn the attention of a foe into that of a chatty Cathy. Those that truly learn the art, can take it one step further and draw the once foe onto their side of things. After one round of Engaging Banter, you turn that foe into ally.
Prerequisites: Swordmaster (Primary), Engaging Banter skill, Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Unholy Fortitude : A Vindicator can tap into his conviction and bolster his hit points by +5 for one full combat, once a day.
Prerequisite: Vindicator (Primary)

Unholy Strike: Any weapon that is held is treated as a unholy, evil aligned weapon. Unholy weapons deal double damage to good creatures, no matter what they are weak against.
Prerequisite: Devout Class
COMBAT
(V)

Unholy Valor : An evil Priest gains an extra +5 to any attack against good aligned creatures.
Prerequisite: Priest, Non-good alignment
COMBAT
(V)

Unshakable Air : This windling skill allows a windling to resist being brought down, grappled or otherwise knocked from the sky once per combat. Levitation magic is used to keep floating until the windling's wings take over again.
Prerequisite: Windling or Faerie
COMBAT
(R)

Untouchable: Once per combat, when a priest is using a skill or healing points to heal himself, he temporarily channels the awe and power of his deity around himself causing him to be untouchable by any type of attack for one round. If the priest takes any offensive action during that round, the skill effect disappears.
Prerequisites: Priest (Primary), Amber Rank
Defense

Unwelcome Gift : Draw on the bad mojo of one of your allies! Remove a condition from an ally and place that condition on your chosen enemy target. A DC15 Willpower save is given to the chosen enemy, if they fail they gain the condition and your ally is relieved of the condition. This can be used for various conditions such as Sickened, Fearful, Shaken, Nauseated, etc. Anything besides the normal conditions must be approved by the DM.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Unwilling Shield : A nearby creature is forced to share any wounds you receive. They receive a Willpower save of DC15, if they fail then they are magically inflicted with whatever wounds you received. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, Sapphire Rank
COMBAT
(V - Magical or Psionic Affinity, Sapphire Rank)

Up the Walls: Using your psionic abilities, you are able to traverse a wall or other relatively smooth vertical surface if you begin and end your move on a horizontal surface. The height you can achieve on the wall is limited only by this movement restriction. If you do not end your move on a horizontal surface, you fall, taking falling damage as appropriate for your distance above the ground (per DM). You may pass from floor to wall or wall to floor freely.
Prerequisite: Psion or Spellborn, Walk the Walls Skill
(V - Psionic Affinity, Walk the Walls Skill)
FLAVOR

Urban Druid: An urban druid is a master of cities and towns who tend to the urban landscape and its inhabitants. They gain a +2 bonus on Diplomacy, Gather Information and Knowledge (local) checks within any city or town. An urban druid may also select a favored city or town. This must be a settlement of at least small town size or larger that the urban druid has visited, but need not be the city the urban druid currently calls home. At Sapphire, they may choose a second favored city, at Ruby a third, and at Obsidian a fourth. While within the city limits of one of her favored cities, the urban druid bonus doubles.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary)
FLAVOR

Urban Ranger: Instead of forming a bond with a certain terrain, an urban ranger forms a bond with a specific community. This skill follows the rules of Favored Terrain, but the ranger is instead choosing communities instead of terrains, such as Navahla, or Westby, or other cities or towns in the lands.
Prerequisite: Ranger

Vampiric Command : The vampire locks eyes with the subject and speaks a one-word command which must be obeyed instantly by any creature of a strength the same or lower (dice) than the vampire. The order must be clear and straightforward - run, cough, yawn, jump, laugh, sneeze, stop, belch, follow. If the command is at all confusing or ambiguous, the subject may respond slowly or perform the task poorly. The subject cannot be ordered to do something directly harmful to herself, so a command like "die" is ineffective. The command may be included in a sentence, thereby concealing the powers use from others. The target rolls 1d20 Willpower check in attempt the resist the command, DC15. If it does, it's up to the characters discretion as to what exactly happens, using common sense. This can only be used once every hour, per target.
Prerequisites: Vampire Only
(R)

Vengeance Strike: A ranger may use this skill once per combat, when an enemy hits an ally with a melee or ranged attack. The ranger can choose to make a single attack against the creature who attacked his ally, even if it is not his turn. Roll Strike, if you hit then proceed with damage normally.
Prerequisite: Ranger, Ruby Rank
(V - Ruby Rank)
COMBAT

Versatility: You may choose any of the Versatility (V) marked skills if you meet the prerequisites for your skill slots. You cannot take primary skills, at all, unless you have that primary class or profession. If the skill does not have a (V) beneath it, then it is not available with Versatility.
Prerequisite: Human Racial
(R)

Vibration : A bard can sing one note, so pure and strong, that it causes objects to vibrate around them. This is useful for removing items from someone's hands, including a weapon. The bard may use this 1/combat to cause a target to drop whatever is in their hands, causing them to not be able to use the weapon/staff/wand/etc until they pick it up. It can also be used, if the bard resonates well enough, to break mundane objects such as windows, glasses, etc (up to DM the results).
Prerequisite: Bard
(V)

Vicious Stomp : If your enemy falls down for any reason, including from actions of an ally, you immediately are given an attack of opportunity regardless if it is your turn or not, once per combat.
Prerequisite: Brawler
COMBAT
(V)
(CC - Combatant Profession)

Vicious Volley: You have reached a level of proficiency with your ranged weapon that few can boast. Able to draw and fire numerous times in the span it takes somebody else to loose once. Once per combat roll a 1d4 to determine how many are hit by your multiple attack.
Prerequisites: Ranger (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Victor's Luck: You may reroll your Strike, once per combat. You may then choose which roll to take.
Prerequisite: Rogue (Primary), Sapphire Rank

Vigorous Circle: This skill boosts the healing gained in the Healing Circle skill from 10 points of healing to everyone in the circle, up to 20 points of healing to everyone. It also heals anyone in the circle of poison or disease. It can be used once per adventure.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary), Healing Circle Skill, Ruby Rank

Vigilance: At will, a paladin can detect evil aligned characters or NPCs around them. If a character has any alignment altering or concealing skills this can be used with a contested roll of the Paladin's Perception vs the Target's Willpower.
Prerequisite: Paladin (Primary), Emerald Rank
FLAVOR

Virtue of the Sword : Once a combat, you may choose to impale an enemy with your attack. On a successful strike, your enemy then makes a Quickness check, DC10+ Knight's Gemstone Level (such as 11 at Crystal, 13 Amber). If they fail the check, then they are impaled and immobilized for 1d3 rounds. If they pass their QCK check, then they merely take regular damage. If they fail and are impaled, they take ONLY weapon damage and pertinent trait damage, which bypasses defenses due to being impaled.
Prerequisite: Knight (Primary), Sapphire Rank

Vital Strike : The Swordmaster is able to find and exploit weaknesses in his opponent, enabling a devasting attack once per combat, giving him a double roll of his combat dice.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Amber Rank
COMBAT

Voice of the Grave: A white necromancer is able to speak with the dead, for as many questions as gemstone levels they have achieved.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, White Necromancy Skill

Volley Spell: If you pass your spell save against an incoming spell, you may choose to reflect the spell back to the caster, once per combat. They are allowed a spell save roll of the same difficulty that you had to overcome.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Magical or Psionic Affinity, Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Voodoo Curse : A shaman may establish a powerful spiritual connection with any being it can comprehend, but this is still limited by the shaman's physical form. As long as the shaman has at least one Voodoo Doll and is able to perceive his target, he may cast a Voodoo Curse upon his target, linking the creature to the inanimate doll which resides in the shaman's hands. He may now deliver spells and attacks against the doll to which the effects will be immediately delivered to the chosen target. No actual damage is dealt to the doll itself. The doll may not be used by any other than the shaman.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Create Doll Skill, Amber Rank
COMBAT
FLAVOR

Voodoo Torment : A target who is the subject of a Voodoo Curse becomes unable to use any defensive maneuvers or skills for one round of combat, as the sensation that their very skin is crawling manifests itself as a physical result of his soul being tortured slowly be malicious spirits.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary), Voodoo Curse
COMBAT

Voracious Reader : You are well read, a scholar, and have knowledge in numerous areas. You may make a check in any knowledge area, and you gain a +2 to ALL knowledge checks.
FLAVOR
(R)

Vow of Charity: A healer who takes this vow is less able to heal themselves, but gains a boost in healing others. Those who take this vow dedicate their lives to protecting those who can't protect themselves and giving to those who are in need. They are generous to a fault, the most steadfast of friends, and give without anyone needing to ask. Half your self-heal points are now used for healing others, leaving you only half to heal yourself. So, if you have 12 points of self-healing, you now may only use 6 points to heal yourself and the other 6 are now able to be used to heal others.
Prerequisites: Healer
(V)
FLAVOR

Vow of Chastity: You have taken a vow of abstinence that is so strong that you no longer even desire (flirt with others) anyone but your higher calling. It is more about feeling that your purpose in life to right the evils of the world is far more important than any type of romantic affiliations. Your devotion is instead on the patron you follow, the deity you serve or simply the call to help others, you will not be led astray from that purpose. Your vow is your shield, your vow is your life! As long as you keep your vow you receive a +1 bonus against Charisma and mind-effect based saves/checks/opposition rolls. At Amber it rises to +2, at Emerald +3, and at Obsidian +4.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary), Knight (Primary), Paladin (Primary), Monk (Primary) or Vindicator (Primary)

Vow of Nonviolence : You have taken a vow not to hurt people for any reason. You focus on healing, and helping those around you. You may not make any attacks, or harm others, even if they harm you or those around you. As long as you keep your vow, you gain twice the number of healing points (healing affinity) for your gemstone level.This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Healer (Primary)

Vow of Peace: This gives you a +2 to your Defense DC, and all damage you take up to -10hp is considered non-lethal, you are merely passed out when you'd normally be dead until you reach -11 and beyond. You remain passed out until you are healed to at least 1hp, such as 24/25hp. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisite: Vow of Nonviolence, Healer (Primary)
DEFENSE

Walk Like a Man : Any beastfolk or werecreature in a form other than human may use this skill to leave human footprints instead of animal prints.
Prerequisites: Any type of non-human that has a beastly form and a human form.
FLAVOR
(R)

Walk the Walls : You can run straight up a wall for a few seconds (8 feet) without making a climb check.
Prerequisites: Acrobatics Skill
FLAVOR
(CC - Acrobatic Skill)

Wall Climber: A thief adept with this skill has become an expert at leaping from surface to surface, and perching on walls and corners. She can ascent slopes or stairs at full speed, and may ascend any perpendicular or parallel vertical surfaces she can reach (a corner, or walls as far apart as the space the thief adept occupies) at normal movement speed by jumping back and forth off the surfaces. The thief adept may also perch between such walls or corners, allowing her to perform actions that usually require two free hands to perform.
Prerequisites: Thief Adept, Walk the Walls Skill
(V - Walk the Walls Skill)

Wand Mastery : Wands are far more potent in your hands. When you use a wand, you gain a bonus to your strike roll. At Amber, you gain +1 to Strike, at Sapphire a +2, and at Obsidian +3. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Arcane Class Only, Amber Rank
COMBAT

Ward of the Season: This skill harnesses the power of the seasons to protect and grant a number of bonuses. This skill has one of four different effects. The caster of this spell-like skill can select any one of the following four effects as a full round action in combat. These effects last 1 round per gemstone rank, regardless of which ones are used.
Prerequisites: Wilden Race, or Druid Profession Only
COMBAT
(R)

Spring: You are wrapped in light vines, culminating in a crown of bright, beautiful flowers. While this remains in effect, you are immune to (DoT) damage over time effects and you heal 1 hit point each round this is in effect, as long as you are still alive.

Summer: The target is surrounded by tiny motes of light. While the skill remains in effect, the target's base speed increases 10 feet. The target can decide to increase their speed by 30 feet for one round by reducing the skill's remaining duration by one extra round.

Fall: A cloak of autumn leaves appears on the target. While the spell remains in effect, the target gains a +3 bonus on Endurance saves. The target can decide to roll twice on any saving throw against disease or poison and take the higher result by reducing the skill's remaining duration by one extra round.

Winter: A flutter of snow and crisp air surrounds the target. While this spell remains in effect, the target automatically succeeds at Acrobatics skill checks made to avoid falling while moving across slick or narrow surfaces. The target can move freely through difficult terrain for 1 round by reducing the spell's remaining duration by one extra round. Difficult terrain created by magic affects the target normally.

Waste Not: Your healing lingers, so that no energy is lost. When you heal someone in any way (healing points, skills, potions, wands, etc), any healing above what they need to refill their HP total they gain as temporary hit points that last until the end of combat. If they are over their normal hit points when the temporary hit points fade, then they will immediately die.
Prerequisites: Healer (Primary), Amber Rank

Watchkeeper: This skill enables the subject to stand watch or keep vigil throughout the night without any ill effects. The subject suffers no fatigue, and gains all the benefits of a full night's rest.
Prerequisites: Paladin, Vindicator, or any Combat Class
FLAVOR
(CC - Defender Profession)

Water Splitting Stone : A monk, when striking an object, may add not only their Strength bonus but their Intelligence bonus to any hit they make upon a non-living object such as a door or chest.
Prerequisite: Monk
(V)
FLAVOR

Weapon Alteration : You've decided the path to glory lies in cutting your foes down as only one fully committed to combat knows how to. Your weapon has some modification done to it (longer strap for a sling, a recurve for bow, higher tension for crossbow, a sharper edge for a sword, a weighted head for a polearm,etc) that grants it a little more punch on delivery. Because of the modification upon this particular weapon, a +2 bonus to damage is gained. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Combat Class (Primary)
COMBAT

Weapon Juggle: You can juggle weapons and similarly sized objects during combat. You can draw, sheath, or shift them from hand to hand as a free action. You can even pick them up from the ground as a free action, as long as you can kick at them. You can do this at the start and end of your turn, but not on somebody else's turn or in the middle of an enemy's turn. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Fighter, Amber Rank
FLAVOR

Web of Secrets: Once per week, the noble may make a Diplomacy check and a Gather Information check. Both of these rolls are against a DC of 25. If one roll succeeds, the noble learns a valuable secret about someone of importance. If both rolls succeed, the noble may either learn a second, related secret or one extremely valuable secret instead. What the noble does with this knowledge is his decision but revealing it openly is likely to bring retribution from the embarrassed or disgraced subject or subjects.
Prerequisite: Noble Profession, Pulse of the City
FLAVOR

Weighty Words : You can get more done with a gun and your words than just your words. When using a gunpowder weapon along with an attempt at Intimidation, you gain a +10 to any one Intimidation attempt you make, once per adventure.
Prerequisites: Use a gunpowder weapon.

Whatever's Handy : In a pinch, a brawler can grab just about anything that is not a weapon and use it for a makeshift weapon, such as chairs, bottles, hunks of rock, etc. You may use this makeshift weapon with any of your normal unarmed bonuses and tech rolls up to as many rounds as your gemstone rank. So, a Crystal could use it for one round, while a Sapphire could use it four rounds.
Prerequisites: Brawler Profession, Sapphire Rank
FLAVOR

What's Yours, Is Mine : Over the years of training, you've gotten pretty handy with the mechanics and versatility of using just one weapon. Within your hand rests a tool of the trade and when it comes to battle, you've gotten a corner on the market. When someone assaults you, you know the precise moment, the proper amount of torque to place on their wrist(s) to get them to relinquish their weapon to you. Once per combat, you may, on a Successful Melee Strike disarm your opponent of their Primary weapon and hold it as your own. All weapons taken are given back right after combat. Legacy weapons "revert" to normal weapon of it's type in the hand of the "thief". Unless you have a skill that allows you to wield two handed weapon in one hand, you can not take a two handed weapon. You must either use this skill OR Disarm in combat, not both.
Prerequisites: Disarm skill, Emerald Rank, Must have one hand completely free in combat.
COMBAT

Whirlwind : This allows a Swordmaster to strike 1d4 additional targets in one round with one attack. The other targets takes the same amount of damage you've rolled for the first.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

Whispers : The spirits whisper into the shaman's ear a translation of any language the shaman is currently listening to or reading. At Topaz Rank this includes all natural and country languages, at Sapphire it includes Supernatural languages, at Ruby it includes Archaic languages and at Obsidian you may choose one Private language that you may have the translation whispered to you. This can be used only once per day, for up to 30 minutes.
Prerequisite: Shaman (Primary)
FLAVOR

White-Haired Witch : The mage can instantly cause her hair (or even eyebrows) to grow up to 10 feet long or to shrink to its normal length, and can manipulate her hair as if it were a limb with a Strength bonus equal to her Intelligence bonus. Her hair has a reach of 10 feet, and she can use it as a secondary natural attack that deals 1d4 points of damage. Her hair can manipulate objects (but not weapons) as dexterously as a human hand. The hair cannot be sundered or attacked as a separate creature. Using her hair does not harm the mage's head or neck, even if she lifts something heavy with it. A typical male mage with this skill can also manipulate his beard, moustache, or eyebrows.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary), Ruby Rank
COMBAT

White Necromancy: A neutral aligned black mage who uses white necromancy is able to cast black mage spells without the evil descriptor. Mindless undead created by any skills or spells are of a neutral alignment instead of evil, while intelligent undead match the white necromancer's alignment. The white necromancer cannot command and control undead created using white necromancy, instead he may ask the undead to provide some service or otherwise assist him. Mindless undead have a staring attitude of indifferent, and intelligent undead are friendly in regards to Diplomacy Checks. The white necromancer must treat the undead with honor and respect at all times, agreeing to release the undead when the service or task is completed. Any sort of aura normally "evil" or "dark" around a Black Mage is instead adapted to a White Necromancer as "neutral" if they wish.
Prerequisites: Black Mage, Neutral Aligned
FLAVOR

Wild Attunement : You share a strong mystic connection with one type of wilderness terrain. Select one type of specific terrain (except urban), and any healing done to you in that terrain is doubled once per adventure. This encompasses healing potions, skills, and any other means of healing. For instance, if you drink a 10hp potion you'd heal for 20hp. At Sapphire you may choose another terrain, at Ruby you may choose a third.
Prerequisite: Elven or Wilden Race
(R)

Wild Cohort : You have a special bond with a wild animal, and it is willing to travel and adventure with you. This animal can serve as a simple non-combat mount, but it cannot serve as a familiar or animal companion (see those skills). You may teach this cohort three commands out of the following list of commands: "scout ahead", "track scent", "go home", "flush out", "stalk", "warn", "hunt", "trip".
Prerequisite: Druid, Amber Rank
(V)
FLAVOR

Wild Guardian : While in your terrain chosen with Wild Attunement, you gain a +1 to your Defense DC. The bonuses do not stack if you are in a terrain that qualifies as more than one terrain; you only receive the bonus for one terrain.
Prerequisite: Wild Attunement, Topaz Rank
COMBAT

Wild Mage : While in your terrain chosen with Wild Attunement, you gain a +10 to Knowledge (Arcana) checks. The bonuses do not stack if you are in a terrain that qualifies as more than one terrain; you only receive the bonus for one terrain.
Prerequisite: Wild Attunement, Sapphire Rank
FLAVOR

Wild Spirit : While in your terrain chosen with Wild Attunement, you gain a +4 to any checks that require Perception (Search, Insight, Spot, Listen, etc) as well as gain blindsense out to 30 feet. The bonuses do not stack if you are in a terrain that qualifies as more than one terrain; you only receive the bonus for one terrain.
Prerequisite: Wild Attunement
FLAVOR
(R)

Will of the Divine: You are a divine spellcaster, and your magical power is pulled from your willpower, instead of your intelligence. This allows Devout Class spellcasters to use WLP for anything magic-wise that would normally use INT including strike, damage, and spell DC's. This is an innate skill.
Prerequisites: Devout Class (Primary), Magical or Psionic Affinity

Will of the Forsaken : A Forsaken is immune to the turning or rebuking of a priest, and gives a +4 to willpower checks against skills and spells that command or control undead. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisites: Forsaken
(R)

Wind Dance : This skill serves as a method of communication between windlings. By flying in certain patterns, windlings can reveal important information without saying a word as they weave messages into their own flight pattern, in much the same way as bees communicate the location of pollen.
Prerequisite: Windling
FLAVOR
(R)

Winged Fist: Once per combat, a monk may channel his chi and damage a ranged target with his unarmed attack, gaining all boosts to unarmed that he normally gains.
Prerequisites: Monk (Primary), Sapphire Rank
COMBAT

Wings of the Angelic Host: Your power flares in the face of danger, allowing you to tap into long forgotten powers of your deity. You appear wreathed in a blazing aura. You gain wings which can be used as many minutes per day as twice your Intelligence bonus.
Prerequisites: Paladin, Amber Rank
FLAVOR

Winning Smile: The Winning Smile skill allows a Swordmaster to appear more attractive to a member of the opposite sex. Depending on the target’s sexual preference, this skill may also work on characters of the same gender. This gives the Swordmaster a +5 to any social checks made upon the target, such as Diplomacy, Bluff, and Gather Information.
Prerequisite: Swordmaster, Amber Rank
(V - Amber Rank)
FLAVOR

Winter Child: You are a type of animal that has adapted to a cold environment very well, either because you are naturally from that type of environment or you and your owner spent much time there. This skill gives the animal companion the ability to resist environmental cold dangers without need to make Endurance checks. You are able to make spot checks even in snowy conditions.
(CC - Cold type animal)
FLAVOR

Wisdom: A magiken has access to thousands upon thousands of years of wisdom and knowledge from the leymind. They pass any knowledge check automatically, once per day.
Prerequisite: Magiken Racial
(R)

Witchblade: You are a skilled mage as well as a combatant and have learned to channel your curses through your blade. Instead of using your hexes separately, you combine them with powerful strikes of your bladed weapon. You still may only use each of your hexes once per adventure, whether with your blade or outside of your blade. Your target gets a willpower save against DC10 + the mage's Intelligence, if they fail the hex lasts as many rounds as the mage's Charisma, unless a Remove Curse is used on them. You must still pass Strike on your target, but even if they take no damage due to armor, they still must save against the hex or take its effects.
Prerequisite: Hex Skill, Combat Class
COMBAT

Witch-Hunt: Spellcasters often fall under a Bloodhound's list of quarry and prove an especially dangerous Mark. Experience against them has gifted you +1 to Strike and Damage vs Spellcasting Marks. At Emerald, you gain a +2 Strike and Damage, at Ruby +3 Strike and Damage. This is a constant skill.
Prerequisite: Bloodhound (Primary)
COMBAT

Witch's Cottage : The cottage witch has settled down in one carefully chosen location, building herself a cottage to house herself and her equipment. A cottage enhances a witch's crafting, research and magical abilities. Owning a witch's cottage gives you a bonus of +2 Crafting Points per week that can be put into Alchemy, or Craft Magic Item. At Sapphire, it also gives the witch a bonus of +3 on Knowledge (Arcana), (Alchemy & Potions), and (Local - the area they build their cottage, must be chosen when you take this skill). At Ruby, the bonus to Knowledge goes up to +5. At Obsidian, the witch may auto-pass one of the listed Knowledges in this skill per day. Her bonus crafting points raise to +4 a week as well.
Prerequisites: Mage (Primary)
FLAVOR

Withered Courage: With the same manner of verbal deception and arcane influence that the Swordmaster uses to turn a foe to an ally, he may instead cause a foe to flee. With quick words and deft action the Swordmaster, on successful hit, can have the target so discouraged and afraid that they flee combat. Once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swordmaster (Primary), Obsidian Rank
COMBAT

Witty Repartee: When making a melee attack against one target, as long as she can speak, the swashbuckler can utilize Witty Repartee. The attack against his foe receives additional damage equal to half the swashbuckler's Charisma bonus, once per combat.
Prerequisites: Swashbuckler, Emerald Rank
COMBAT
(V - Emerald Rank)

Word of Anathema : Once per day, you can speak a word of anathema against a single creature within 60 feet. This gives the target a –4 penalty on saves, ability checks, and skill checks outside of combat. Target must roll a Willpower against the devout's DC10+INT bonus to pass and be uneffected. This lasts 1 hour at Sapphire, and adds on one hour of duration for each gemstone rank following. If combat is entered, the effect ends.
Prerequisites: Devout Class (Primary), Sapphire Rank

Wrath before Charity: Your hatred for your deity's enemies fuels your rage when you are in combat, allowing you to afflict a target with pain in exchange for healing you would have done through your powers using your Healing Affinity skill. You may, instead of using your heal points to heal someone, inflict damage upon a target for as many of your heal points as you wish to give up. This may be done once per combat.
Prerequisite: Vindicator, Healing Affinity
COMBAT
(V - Healing Affinity)

Wrath of Mother Nature : Gives you an extra 1d of your combat dice once per combat, as you take on the wrath of Mother Nature within your attack.
Prerequisite: Druid (Primary)
COMBAT

Your Opponent is Me! : You have to pay attention to a Swashbuckler when fighting him, as even losing concentration for a moment will mean your kidneys get turned into kebabs. Once per combat, the Swashbuckler attacks a foe in melee combat, and their flamboyant and unpredictable moves act in the swashbuckler's favor, allowing them to not only attack their opponent, but stun them in some way. The swashbuckler can use their pommel, kick dirt in their eyes, entangle them in rope or their cloak, or numerous other creative ways all giving the same result: a lose turn that grows with the swashbuckler.
Prerequisite: Swashbuckler (Primary)
COMBAT - LOSE TURN

You're Shitting Me! This grants a +3 bonus on Bluff, Diplomacy, and Gather Info.
FLAVOR
(R)

Zone of Truth : You may use this skill once per day, and create a zone of 30 feet around where only the truth may be told for 15 minutes per each point of their Charisma bonus.
Prerequisite: Paladin or Priest
(V)
FLAVOR