coaskills
[[coaskills]] last edit on Jul 3, 2008 5:07 PM by marasmusine

This is the skill list for Crystal Orb Adventures.

  • appraise helps determine the value of objects
  • athletics helps reduce endurance costs when moving through difficult terrain.
  • awareness is used to check to automatically check for sneaking characters.
  • healing helps recover hit points whilst resting
  • meditation improves mana recovery.
  • initiative helps determine who acts first in a fight
  • searching helps find items hidden in containers or lost in rooms
  • speechcraft helps haggling with shopkeepers and with diplomacy
  • sneaking is activated with the sneak command, and attempts to move around unseen. Some actions will end a sneak, as will being spotted by someone you can see.
  • thaumaturgy helps spellcasters work out what spells they know and what runes are available when they level up. Note that not knowing about a spell does not necessarily mean you cannot cast it. Non-spellcasters use this skill to attempt to use magic items such as scrolls.
  • wrangling has limited use with the Nature Talent special skill to handle animals
  • arcanology is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking constructs, dragons or magical beasts.
  • dungeoneering is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking abberations or oozes.
  • hunting is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking animals, vermin, giants, plants, humanoids or fey.
  • spiritology is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking the undead.
  • theology is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking immortals and elementals.