Category:Apprentice Skills

__NOCATEGORYGALLERY__ These skills are measured in terms of general competency. You start out as an apprentice, with only basic knowledge and experience. As you progress (or if you spend two additional skill slots at character creation), you become a journeyman. Your skill has increased to a professional level and you can perform routine tasks under your skill with little effort and with a good chance for success. A master of a skill has progressed to the highest level. You are capable of making 'masterpieces' with great effort. Routine tasks can now be done with little thought or effort, and ones that are more difficult are accomplished with greater ease. The only skill that you start out with at the master level (unless granted by class or Game Master favour) is your skill at speaking your native language.

As an option to reduce the granularity in apprenticeships, you can use a plus or minus notation to indicate a greater or lesser degree of competancy. There are no associated game mechanics differences; this is solely for descriptive purposes. This can be used either as a general indicator of skill, or for minor specialties. For example, someone whose character sheet reads "Woodworking journeyman- (cabinetry+)" has a weak but general degree of proficiency in most types of carpentry, but can make some really nice honey-pine cabinets with bevelled inlays. This optional system is especially useful for language skills. For example apprentice Speak- would mean you can ask for the bathroom or get a drink, but that's about it. Apprentice Speak+ indicates you know what coinage to give when a merchant quotes a price, or ask that cute guy to dance. Journeyman- could mean you spoke the language as a young child, but are very out of practice and barely still have the vocabulary of a six-year-old. Journeyman+ with Literacy- is someone who can keep up with most conversations, but has a thick accent and occasionally uses odd sentence constructions, however things they write are all but indecipherable. Someone with Speak at master- can think in the language and may even talk in her sleep in that language, but cannot escape her definate accent no matter how hard she tries. Journeyman+ or master- Speaking with Literacy+ is someone who is hyper-literate in the language, using complex sentences and obscure vocabulary, but is unmistakably foreign when speaking to them in person. Master+ in language skills is someone who has studied literature, has a large useful vocabulary, and habitually uses proper gramatical construction. Such a person speaks the language better than most natives, even if learned as a secondary tongue. If desired, this can be applied to other types of skills as well, i.e. proficiencies and basic skills. This is a purely optional method to reduce the granularity of skills.