Physical Skills

Outdoor Skills Group

Animal Sounds

This is the skill of mimicing animal sounds.

Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish. Fish are normally caught in the wild.

• hand gathering
• spearing
• netting
• angling
• trapping
• Rod and Reel

Orienteering

Orienteering is the discipline of following a route through unfamiliar terrain on foot or by vehicle, using maps with reference to terrain, a compass, and other navigational tools.

• Map Reading
• Celestial navigation
• Solar Time Estimation

Traps (Mental Skill/5)

Traps is the skill for both building and dealing with traps. Detection devices count as "traps", so this skill covers security cameras and the like at appropriate TLs. On a success, you can build a trap, given time and materials, detect an existing trap, disarm a trap to allow passage, or reset a trap after passing it.

• Foothold traps
• Body gripping traps
• Deadfall traps
• Snares
• Trapping pit
• Cage traps (live traps)
• Glue traps

Survival, {Area}

Survival is the skill of living off the land, and exploiting the natural environment in general. A skill roll is required every day of living in the wild. Specific skills include: Arctic, Survival, Field, Forest, Mountain and Swamp.

• Fire building
• Finding food
• Shelter making
• Avoiding Hazards

Gymnastics Skills Group

Acrobatics

Acrobatics is most often associated with activities that make extensive use of gymnastic stunts, roll, take falls, etc. This skill also includes acrobatics during a dive into water.

• contortion
• hooping
• parkour
• tightrope
• trampoline
• trapeze
• tumbling
• Flipping

Jumping

This is the skill of propeling yourself airborne either vertically or hotizontally.

• Standing Long Jump
• Standing High Jump
• Running Long Jump
• Running High Jump
• Hopping

Running Long Jump

To calculate the the person’s long jump distance, first calculate their speed running. This is the base running long jump distance in meters for the character. Then roll the character’s jumping skill. Each success adds 0.2 meters.

• Base Move: MR/10 mps (0.012 x MR KPH)
• Jogging Speed: MR/10 mps + (0.5 x Ss meters mps)
• Sprinting Speed: MR/10 mps + Ss meters mps

If a character has an MR of 17 and a Dexterity of 6, would have a base sprint of 1.7 mps. He then rolls his run, getting 4 success. Their base jump would be 5.7 meters. With 4Ss on their jump role, they would jump a total of 6.5 meters.

Running High Jump

The base running long jump distance in meters is Str/10. Then roll the character’s jumping skill. Each success adds 0.25 meters.

If a character has an Str of 8 their base jump would be 0.8 meters meters. With 4Ss on their jump role, they would jump a total of 1.8 meters.

Standing Long Jump

Unlike the running long jump, the standing long jump is strength-based, not running based. The base standing long jump distance in meters is Str/10+0.5. Then roll the character’s jumping skill. Each success adds 0.25 meters.

If a character has an Str of 8 their base jump would be 1.3 meters meters. With 4Ss on their jump role, they would jump a total of 2.3 meters.

Standing High Jump

The standing long jump is strength-based, not running based. The base standing long jump distance in meters is Str/20. Then roll the character’s jumping skill. Each success adds 0.05 meters.

If a character has an Str of 8 their base jump would be 0.4 meters meters. With 4Ss on their jump role, they would jump a total of 0.6 meters.

Climbing (Dex/3)

This is the skill of climbing things; moutains, walls, etc.

• Bouldering: Ascending boulders or small outcrops, often with climbing shoes and a chalk bag or bucket
• Buildering: Ascending the exterior skeletons of buildings, typically without protective equipment.
• Canyoneering: Climbing along canyons for sport or recreation.
• Chalk climbing: Ascending chalk cliffs uses some of the same techniques as ice climbing.
• Free climbing: a form of rock climbing in which the climber uses climbing equipment such as ropes and other means of climbing protection, but only to protect against injury during falls and not to assist progress
• Ice climbing: Ascending ice or hard snow formations using special equipment, usually ice axes and crampons. Techniques of protecting the climber are similar to those of rock climbing, with protective devices (such as ice screws and snow wedges) adapted to frozen conditions.
• Ladder climbing
• Pole climbing: Climbing poles and masts without equipment.
• Tower climbing: Climbing up the inside of a narrow tower by applying pressure to the walls with the hands and feet.
• Tree Climbing

Anything harder than a ladder needs a roll. Speed and penalties are listed per the table below. You roll every five minutes

Type of Climb	TN	Speed (dm/s)		Condition	Penalty
Ladder	2	Hgt/6		Point Encumberance	1 penalty die
Rope	2	Hgt/3		Wet Surface	2 penalty die
Ordinary Tree	4	Hgt/10		Inverted Climb	3 penalty die
Ordinary Mountain	5	Hgt/18 - Hgt/24		Cornering	2 penalty dice
Cliff	5	Hgt/180		Rope	3 penalty die
Stone Wall	4	Hgt/18
Wooden Wall	5	Hgt/24
Between two buildings	4	Hgt/30
Pipe	4	Hgt/15

Riding

Riding is the skill to ride animals.

• Guide with Knees
• Control Mount
• Mounted Fighting
• Hanging Cover
• Soft Fall
• Leap
• Spur Mount
• Fast Mount or Dismount

Skiing

Skiing is a means of transport using skis to glide on snow or water. Though water skiing and snow skiing are very different, many of the mechanics are the same.

• Water Skiing
• Snow Skiing
• Jumping
• Cross Country Skiing

Running

Running is the skill of running either long distances or sprinting short distances

• Marathon
• Sprinting
• Ultra Marathon

Swimming [Dex/4]

Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs, the body, or both.

• front crawl
• breaststroke
• backstroke
• butterfly
• Survival Stroke
• Rescue Stroke

Base swimming speed is equal to MR/20 in meters per second. The following table can be used to get to miles per hour.

MR	mph	MR	mph	MR	mph	MR	mph
10	1.12	14	1.568	18	2.016	22	2.464
11	1.232	15	1.68	19	2.128	23	2.576
12	1.344	16	1.792	20	2.24	24	2.688
13	1.456	17	1.904	21	2.352	25	2.800

Body Control Group

Sleight of Hand (Dex/4)

• Palming
• Pickpocket
• Shuffle
• Trick dealing

Body Control

Body Control is the skill to affect involuntary bodily functions such as heart rate, blood flow, and digestion.

• Meditation
• Stasis

{Area} Stealth (Dex/4)

Specialties in Urban, Mountain, Forest, Field, Desert

• Shadowing
• Sneaking
• Tracking
• Hiding

Manipulative Skills (Dex/4)

• Micromachinery
• Engraving

This is the skill of breaking into places and things without getting caught or leaving evidence. It includes skills such as lockpicking, jimmying locks, bumping locks, bypassing locks, etc. This is a opposed success test with the user of the skill working against the skill of the security system. The GM determines the length of time required to bypass the security and successes can either be placed into speed or added to a “discoverability” number. This numberis the number of successes an investigator needs to identiofy the method of entry. A simple way of calculating this is have the person securing the facility use their Illegal Entering skill and use the following chart:

Successes	Base Time Required (minutes)	Successes	Base Time Required (hours)
1	2	6	1.5
2	5	7	6
3	10	8	24
4	20	9	96
5	40	10	192