Skills

In a world where humans have lost the secrets of science and technology, they cling to mutant powers and artificial intelligences to help them thrive in the Outlook. Ancient materials and new possibilities collide as exploring The Citadel offers up opportunities even to those who have completely forsworn the ways of the fallen civilisation. But these same wonders offer new dangers, as they discover what was once hidden inside...

Part of a series about Citadel Rules

• Combat
  • Safety
• Calls
• Skills
• Psionics
• Techgnosis
• Mutations
  • Basic Mutations
• Downtime
• Equipment
• Resources and Income
• Wounds

Strain

Strain is not really a skill but it provides certain abilities and skills may be restricted to certain strain. Every character must be either Dead-Strain or Gene-Strain.

Strain	Prerequisite	Effect
Dead-Strain	Not Gene-Strain	AI interact more favourably. Can house two basic AI in own ka.
Gene-Strain	Not Dead-Strain	May mutate. Can house one basic AI in own ka.

Basic Skills

Constitution

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Fitness		3	+1 Hit; this allows you to take a further mutation
Hardiness		3	+1 Hit (total +2); this allows you to take a further mutation
Toughness		4	+1 Hit (total +3); this allows you to take a further mutation

Organic

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Medicine		1	You may spend a minute on appropriate role play to call CURE ALL on any Character. You may spend a reagent to reduce this to 10 seconds. During this time, their Bleed Count is paused. You may examine Wound Cards.
Surgery	Medicine	3	May Spend a minute in appropriate role play to call RESTORE on yourself or another character. You may spend a reagent to do this is 10 seconds instead. You may attempt to heal Wounds on another character. You may ignore the effects of one Wound.
Animal Dissection		2	You may scavenge dead organic corpses for food or reagents destroying the corpse in the process. Three times per day, you may also learn a fact about the corpse in the process of the dissection.
Poisoner	Animal Dissection	3	Can use Food to apply poisons to your own weapons.

Technology

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Disassembler		2	You may scavenge working or broken machines and mechanical corpses for scraps and sometimes for advanced resources. Three times per day you may attempt to learn about the object in the process. If you disassemble a black box, you learn about the AI. Disassembly always destroys the object.
Jury-rigger	Disassembler	3	You may use Scrap to fix broken things. These will mostly be machines.
Reading		4	You can read Citadel Script. See Literacy for more information.
Writing	Reading	2	You may write Citadel Script.

Income and Downtime

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Connections		1	(PROVISIONAL) You will learn of an extra rumour every week. If defined, your connections may enter play (we will warn you if they do).
Control Income		1	You may pick your weekly income
Improved Income	Control Income	2	You receive a second, randomised, basic income.
Advanced Income	Improved Income	4	You receive an advanced income every week.
Followers	Connections	3	Followers may assist with your Downtime agenda, or can be assigned a separate basic agenda. They require the consumption of Food resource to do so reliably, otherwise they must spend their downtime scavenging for food.

Not available at start

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Robust Ka	Dead-Strain	2	Can house an Advanced AI

Warrior Skills

Abilities

To use an skill with an asterisk (*) you must be wearing an appropriate tag

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Warrior		4	Gain Stamina Pool
Trip	Warrior	2	You may call STRIKEDOWN with a short weapon by spending one stamina
Dodge	Warrior	5 *	You may spend two stamina to RESIST any call except MUTATE, CURSE and EFFECT. You still take the implicit SINGLE if the call was delivered by a weapon strike.
Iron Resolve	Warrior	3	You may call CURE 3 on yourself for by spending one stamina
Survivor's Grit	Warrior	3	While dying you may spend two stamina to stagger to your feet and call CURE 3 on yourself. You take no damage while role playing this ability.
Invictus	Warrior	1	You may spend all your stamina in 10 seconds of appropriate roleplay to restore all your limbs. This causes a WOUND unless you also spend a reagent

Extra Stamina

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Physical Conditioning	Warrior	2	Your stamina pool is enlarged by one
Perfect Specimen	Physical Conditioning	3	Your stamina pool is additionally enlarged by one

Weapon Proficiency

To use a skill with a section-sign (§) you must pass a safety check

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Two-Handed Weapon Use	Warrior	2 §	You may use two handed weapons
Polearm Training	Two-Handed Weapon Use	3 §	You may use polearms and one-handed spears
Ambidexterity	Warrior	2	You may wield two short or one-handed weapons at the same time.
Buckler Training	Warrior	1	You may use a buckler in one hand
Shield Training	Buckler Training	4	You may use a large shield in one hand.
Thrown Weapon Training	Warrior	1	You may throw short thrown weapons for a implied SINGLE
Archery Training	Thrown Weapon Training	3 §	You may use crossbows and bows. If it is unsafe to loose the bolt or arrow, you may call ranged TRIPLE but you must unload your weapon and holster your projectile.

Expertise

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Melee Weapon Expertise	Warrior	3	You may call TRIPLE by any melee weapon by spending one stamina
Large Weapon Expertise	Warrior	2	You may call STRIKEDOWN by two-handed weapons and polearms by spending one stamina
Two-Handed Mastery	Two-Handed Weapon Use, Melee Weapon Expertise	2	You may spend two stamina to call CRUSH using a two handed weapon
Backstab	Melee Weapon Expertise	2	You may spend two stamina to call CRUSH by a short weapon from behind the target or against an unresisting target

Armour Proficiency

The benefits from all armour skills stack. To use an skill with an asterisk (*) you must be wearing an appropriate tag

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Armour Novice	Warrior	1	Armour provides additional one body hit
Armour Journeyman	Armour Novice	1	Armour provides additional one body hit
Armour Expert	Armour Journeyman	2	Armour provides additional one body hit
Armour Adept	Armour Expert	2	Advanced armour provides one additional body hit
Armour Master	Armour Adept	3	Advanced armour provides one additional body hit
Skilled Deflection	Armour Adept	3 *	Advanced armour allows you to call RESIST to reduce CRUSH to TRIPLE.
Dentbasher	Armour Journeyman	3	You may use scrap to make advanced armour. You may also customise your armour. Basic armour can be customised once while advanced armour may be customised twice.

Techgnosis Skills

Abilities and Housing

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Technopath	Dead-Strain, Reading	Free	Ritual of Initiation: Houses willing AI in your housing or your ka
Self-Improvement	Technopath	2	You may house Advanced AI in your ka
Compartmentalise	Technopath	2	You may house an additional AI in your ka

Rituals

These skills provide rituals a Technopath can cast

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Request	Technopath	2	Summon a Basic AI
Petition	Request	3	Summon a Advanced AI
Beseech	Petition	4	Contact a specific Super AI you know.
Dispatch	Technopath	1	Dehouses a willing AI without harming it or the housing.
Bind	Technopath	1	(PROVISIONAL) Houses a willing AI in someone else's housing or Ka.
Create Shell	Technopath	2	Animates and gives voice to a dead body using scrap. If done soon after death, temporarily brings the target back.
Empower Shell	Create Shell	3	Empowers a created shell to house an AI. This increases the capability of the shell and potentially removes the temporary nature of the shell.
Identify	Technopath	2	Identifies the purpose of a machine or the name and nature of a housed AI.
Form Housing	Technopath	4	Creates a device capable of housing an AI using scrap.
Isolate	Dispatch	3	Isolate an AI from interacting with its housing, rendering it inert. May be used to modify a housing into a trap. May also be used to reduce the effects of the housing on the AI. This ritual may only be performed on a housing, black box or a shell, not a hologram.
Expunge	Isolate	3	Dehouses or rehouses a resisting AI. May be performed on a hologram and will affect their current housing.

Psionic Skills

Abilities

Asterisked abilities (*) may be taken multiple times

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Psion	Gene-Strain	4	Gain Focus Pool. Gain Detect Nature power.
Walk Pathway	Psion	1	You may choose a single pathway. You may improvise Communions from your chosen pathways.
Second Pathway	Walk Pathway	2	You may choose a second pathway
Psionic Expression	Walk Pathway	1*	You may learn a Basic Power or a Basic Communion from one of your pathways.
Advanced Expression	Psionic Expression	2*	You may learn an Advanced Power or an Advanced Communion from a pathway you know a Basic Power or Communion from.
Detect Strain	Psion	1 (PROVISIONAL)	Learn the Detect Strain Power

Extra Focus

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Mindful Focus	Psion	1	Focus pool enlarged by two points
Expert Focus	Mindful Focus	2	Focus pool enlarged by two points
Focus Mastery	Expert Focus	3	Focus pool enlarged by two points.