Skills

Tristran, I can tell you, was adept at every game and pastime—chess, backgammon, dice. At hunting in wood and river he was more skilled than any man; if he turned his hand to juggling tricks he surpassed them all; when it came to swordsmanship no one could compare; as for wrestling, he threw and pinned down every knight at court! He was tested by the finest and beat them all! Gerbert of Montreuil, Gerbert’s Continuation of Perceval

The things the character is trained in doing, ranging from 1-3 points, which grant 1-3 dice to your Dice Pool when acting with that skill¹.

A skill might represent multiple aspects of the practice, especially meaning both knowledge about the subject and practice with the subject².

Gaining Skills

(very rough concept)

• Start with X many points, capped at (depends on how old you’re starting)
• Gain Y each time you age up a level of the Doom Track

List of Skills

Each Social Class has a different set of skills available to them³, based on what they are expected to know and are trained to (often from a young age), though most are shared.

Skills	For Knights?	For Ladies?	For Clergy?
Songs & Styles of ___	yes	yes	❌
The Accounting of Coin	yes	yes	yes
The Bell, Book & Candle	❌	❌	yes
The Board and its Pieces	yes	yes	yes
The Body and All Its Ills	yes	yes	yes
The Center of Attention	yes	yes	yes
The Distaff and Spindle	❌	yes	❌
The Hawk and the Hound	yes	yes	❌
The Hills and the Dells	yes	yes	yes
The Labors of the Fields	❌	❌	yes
The Letters and the Laws	yes	yes	yes
The Movements of the Stars	❌	❌	yes
The Sea and Her Sorrows	yes	yes	yes
The Sword and the Spear	yes	❌	❌
The Tales of Times Past	yes	yes	yes
The Voice of Harp and Lute	yes	yes	yes
The Works of Whispers	yes	yes	yes

Footnotes

1. That is to say, when that skill is the relevant skill you’re using - you can only apply one; if a task may involve multiple skills, pick one that’s most fitting for the problem and your approach to solving it. ↩

2. e.g. someone trained in The Sword and the Spear isn’t just skilled in using weapons, but in identifying good and bad craftsmanship, recognizing the behaviors and cultural practices of fighters, etc. ↩

3. Each also has one special skill they start with a point in, even before any other Character Creation, which is one of the skills unique to them. ↩