CPA: Skills List

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A skill in CPA is a type of player character attribute that symbolizes their knowledge, ability, and intuition with all aspects of a certain craft, trade, vocation, or hobby.

Skills are used to accomplish most things in a typical adventure, such as navigating, negotiating, investigating or fighting.

When skills are used in uncertain situations where success or failure could be interesting, a skill check might be rolled to see how it goes. This is generally rolled as 2d8 + skill level.

Players gain their first skills in character generation, and then may increase their skill levels higher during the game using experience points in advancement.

Focus skills: Player characters in CPA have 2 Focus Skills. These work like normal skills except they come with powerful Focus Abilities. They represent your character's signature style of adventuring.

For each of your 2 focus skills you get ALL of the Focus Abilities.

There are five main categories of skills.

Skill Categories:

Professional Skills are broad areas of employable competencency.
Social Skills represent your ability to engage positively with other people.
Defensive Skills help protect your character from harm.
Combat skills represent your ability to do violence.
Arcane Skills are supernatural powers. They can only be used if selected as focus skills.

Skill Name	Applications	Potential failures	Focus Abilities
Animals	Skill working socially with animals and making animals obey commands, including mounting and riding animals. Used for pet attack rolls and mounted maneuvers. This skill also covers animal-like aliens or bestial monsters, if they exist.	The animals run away, attack, are harmed, or learn the wrong thing.	Whisperer: You have one unusually intelligent animal companion that can follow complex commands, and it will follow your commands using your bonus action. This animal is controlled by the GM but is as loyal and obedient as possible. If it dies you can train a new one in time. Biologist: You can use Animals in place of Medicine when targeting animals, you can roll Animals instead of Science when analyzing microbiology, and you can roll Animals instead of Crafting when crafting or cooking with animal parts or products. Primal Empathy: You can roll Animals as a social skill to represent nonverbal interactions with people. Teamwork: While your animal companion is helping you physically with any non-arcane skill check, you can roll with 3 dice and keep the highest 2.
Art	Skill and speed in drawing, painting, tailoring, weaving, sculpting, as well as art history, lore, investigation, understanding and identification of visual art, art tools and methods. Also applies to architecture.	It takes longer, or is worth less to other people, or offends the audience.	Zeitgeist: Artworks you make and distribute after you begin adventuring are guaranteed to become famous over time. Functional Style: You can spend 4 hours and use materials to decorate a piece of gear or vehicle in a specific way. It gains +1 to a statistic you choose. This stacks with crafted mods though not with itself. Master Drafter: While your Art skill is equal to or greater than your Crafting skill, add +1 to your Crafting rolls. Artist's Touch: Once per scene, you can re-roll any one skill check reliant on your own visual accuracy, and keep the higher result.
Athletics	Add this skill to your Initiative and HP. Carry capacity is 10+5*skill. Used for climbing, jumping, swimming, lifting, throwing things with your own muscle power. You can use it for thrown weapons such as grenades and javelins. Some minimum amounts are required for heavy weapons and armor.	Generally when you fail it means you can't do the thing without either hurting/fatiguing yourself, breaking something, or simply can't do it this way.	Parkour: You can climb, jump or fall up to 5 meters safely in any direction, with no roll needed, as one action. Coach: +2 to HP. Once per session, you can give +1d4 to all party members attempting the same strength or dexterity related task by guiding them. Recharge when you crit this skill. Pushing It: You can increase any skill check or hit damage you make that primarily involves strength or dexterity at-will by spending your HP or EP to add to the result, 1:1.
Computers	Efficient computer programming, maintenance, hacking and rapid data analysis. See the Hacking Actions table under skill checks. Computer skill can also be rolled to use and attack with remote controlled drones. Learning new computer lanuages usually takes 1d4 days of study, but a skill of 1 means you know all common programming languages. You do not need computer skill for basic computer use in your society.	Your intrustion is detected, your account is locked out, your credentials are banned from the network, your device is fried. Your program is less effective, slow or has unintended results.	Remote Injection: You can attempt to hack robots over WiFi within 10m of your physical position. Natural Language: You can roll your computers skill as a social skill with robots and artificial intelligences. System Overload: Using a hardwired connection, you can attempt to inject a virus to cause any microchip to explode and burn after a short time. Actually: Once per scene when you make a skill check in any academic subject, you can choose to reroll one of the dice.
Crafting	Construction, modification, repair and lore of all tools, machines, weapons, vehicles and buildings. Good crafting results require time, space, materials, and skill. Can also be used to pick locks. See the Crafting Actions table below for specific usages.	When you are crafting with quiet and focus, you should generally not roll but just get results based on your skill level. If you fail while crafting under pressure, however: your project may take longer, be less effective, be fragile and prone to backfire, or have intended consequences.	Efficiency: When you craft or repair using a crate of parts, you only have a 1-in-4 chance of expending it. Practical Mind: Once per scene, you can roll a non-magical check with an additional bonus die based off of your highest skill level (d3, d4, d5 or d6). Improvisation: You can roll Crafting to locate nearby crafting materials, persuade people about construction plans, or to fight or defend using crafting tools such as a wrench or sheet metal.
History	Ability to recall historical and social facts and trivia about your world. You need not always roll this skill, often just having a certain level will ensure you know things.	You recall vague hints or false information.	Legends: Once per session, you can guarantee one basic success on any non-magical skill by describing the technique of a historical figure who was legendary at this skill. Archaeologist: While navigating, investigating, or exploring ruins or abandoned areas, you can roll one check per scene with +1d6. Storyteller: When you are explaining your party's deeds or goals to another person or group, you can roll History as a social skill with +1.
Medicine	General healing, first aid, surgery, amputations, installing implants and prosthetics, autopsy, diagnosis, anatomy, corpse ID, vaccine development, and microbiology. First Aid: Expending a medical kit, you can spend 5 minutes to heal [your skill level]+1d4 HP to your own or an ally's untreated wounds, thereby treating them. This does not require a roll. Stabilize: Expending a medical kit, you can spend 1 hour to try to bring someone back from the dying condition (roll vs a TN improvised based on the wound type). Diagnose: Expending a medical kit, you can spend 10 minutes to diagnose and learn what will cure a person afflicted with an ailment (roll vs. TN).	Your medical efforts get less information, are less effective, cannot help, or make the problem worse.	Medic: You can achieve the above results without a medical kit. When you do use a medical kit, your first aid heal amount increases by +1d4. Healer: When doing any action that requires a medical kit, it takes half the usual time and you only have a 25% chance of expending it. Therapist: You can roll Medicine as a social skill when comforting an injured, distressed, sad or upset person.
Music	Ability to play music with voice and any instrument, as well as music history, lore and ability to identify audio instruments, tools and methods, as well as sounds in general. High rolls will impress more people.	Regardless of its true value, others find your music forgettable, offensive, or irritating.	Good Ear: You can roll Music instead of Perception to sense all possible information about a sound or vibration you hear. Songs of Power: Without rolling, you can play/sing a Song of Power - speed, rest, charm, strength, etc, with each taking at least 5 minutes and granting a +1 benefit to one statistics of a consenting audience lasting 1 hour, [skill] times per day. Only one can be active at a time. More can be discovered as well. Star: Songs you create and play after you begin adventuring are guaranteed to become popular over time. After an audience hears you play or sing, you can roll music to interact with them socially.
Navigation	Recognize tracks and trails, navigate from place to place, know directions. Works in all environments and can represent your understanding of various environments. Applies to any vehicle or mount as well as on foot. Can be used to help find crafting ingredients.	You get less information or go a more perilous way or get lost.	Good Nose: You can roll Navigation like a sensing skill to sense hints of what lies in each direction (including secret doors). Set a course: When making, preparing, or changing the party's plan of action, you have +1 to all rolls. Prepared for Unforeseen Consequences: Once per scene, whenever an ally within 20m of you is about to experience disaster, knockout or death, you get one special instant action of your choice.
Perception	Use this skill to find clues, items, anomalies and curiosities, using your senses and your investigator's intuition. Add this skill to your Initiative value.	Though you will never fail to find critically important items and information, you may find less information, accidentally destroy valuable items, or something bad happens when you find what you seek.	Inspector: You can always, without rolling, sense one fact about each new area you enter, relating to what happened there recently. Sixth Sense: You can sense nearby supernatural effects with this professional skill. Detail Oriented: Once per scene, after you roll, you can increase any one rolled die to the next higher even number.
Pilot	Ability to pilot all types of constructed vehicles, including trucks, hovercraft, aircraft, ships, starships and remote controlled drones, but not riding or driving animals. Applies equally to all such vehicles, and mostly to speed, safety and maneuvering. Can be used for vehicle jumps, rolls, ramming or sideswiping attacks as well.	You crash, damage the vehicle, or waste fuel, or take longer to your destination.	Mechanic: You can roll your Pilot skill instead of Crafting to perform vehicle repairs. You can install one additional modification to any vehicle. Fast and Furious: Add this skill to your initiative in combat. You can also choose to use this skill as your movement speed skill. Hot Shot: If you start a fight, charge straight into danger, or directly contradict an authority, you have +1 advantage die on all your rolls for that one 6-second turn.
Plants	Knowledge of useful herbs, ability to find useful plant-related crafting materials, and knowledge of biomes defined by plants. Can also be rolled to improve any plant-related action such as climbing trees, cutting through hedges, swinging on vines, etc.	You recall only vague hints or partially incorrect info about plants, or use them in a dangerous or wasteful way.	Branching Growth: While you rest among plants, you heal twice as fast, and you have a 1-point XP cost discount on improving all other skills (minimum cost = 1). Ranger: You can also roll this skill to navigate/perceive in lush areas, negotiate or fight with plantoid or fungoid creatures, and craft or cook things from any plant material. Infuser: You can roll this skill instead of Science to craft plant-based potions, injections, poisons, and performance-enhancing drugs.
Science	Used for mathematics, chemical/physical science, biochemistry, microbiology, and all crafting of all liquid or powder drugs, potions, batteries and bombs. Can be used to brew cures and vaccines, stimulants and performance-enhanching drugs, explosives and acids. Good brewing results require good time, space, materials, and skill. If you brew a potion with a specific effect, don't roll until it is used.	The drug or potion you brewed takes longer, requires more ingredients, is less effective, or has an unintended and unknown effect, or the ingredients are ruined and you get no result.	Academic Discipline: You can roll Science as a sensing skill to locate ingredients, or as a social skill when discussing scientific topics. Universal Principles: Once per scene, you can roll another professional skill with +1 advantage die. Anomalous Materials: Using scientific tools, you can roll science instead of an arcane skill to identify magical artifacts and detect metadimensional anomalies.
Stealth	Used for sneaking, stealing, being personally unheard and unseen, and criminal history and lore. Hiding is an action, and requires full cover (something that completely blocks sight). In combat, unseen attackers get +1 to hit and damage. Stealth should ONLY be rolled at the critical moment when you may or may not be discovered.	When stealth fails, enemies' alertness increases. This may be from 0 to 100, or from yellow to orange, or something else. If picking locks, your tools may break or the lock may jam.	Chief Infiltrator: You can roll your stealth skill for up to [skill] allies in addition to you, and they will all share your exact result. Anti-Security: If you have the proper tools, you can roll Stealth instead of Crafting to defeat locks and disable mechanical traps and auto-turrets. Rogue's Gamble: If you are unsatisfied with a skill check you made, then once per scene you can reroll it with 1d20+skill. Great Deceiver: You can roll Stealth as a social skill but only when you are primarily lying.

Skill Name	Applications	Potential failures	Focus Abilities
Insight	Use this social skill to sense when a person is lying, hiding something, stressed, afraid, or any other nonverbal cues they might be hiding.	You learn less, nothing, or are perceived as staring rudely.	Raindrops on Roses: You can always sense at least one of a person's favorite things after 1 minute of conversation or observation. Intense Focus: At any time, you can spend 1 HP to gain +1 on any task that can benefit from intense focus, such as crafting, computers, science, shooting or perception. Does not stack. Learn From Mistakes: After you or another party member fails to meet any TN, declare this ability and note the number on one of the dice. Thereafter, you can substitute this result for one of your dice on a future roll. Maximum of 1 die stored at a time.
Leadership	Roll as a social skill to persuade groups and individuals to follow a cause you set forth, or perform public speaking or storytelling. In addition, you can make an inspiring speech [skill] times per day by spending 1 minute to inspire one ally use one of their skills with +1.	Your speech causes your audience to become bored, nervous, discouraged, offended or angered.	Distinguished: It is obvious that you lead the party. +2 maximum inspiration points. Any time anyone rolls a critical success on any skill, you recharge 1 inspiration point. Friends in High Places: You have +1 on all social skill checks with other leaders. Humility: Once per non-arcane skill, before you roll a check, you can tell the party a brief story about how you failed spectacularly at a certain skill you now posess, in your youth, and learned a lesson. You then get a guaranteed basic success on that task.
Linguistics	Ranks in this skill represent how many extra foreign languages you know. Roll it to converse and translate rare languages, as well as to represent your speed and skill in reading and writing.	You use the wrong words or translate improperly or partially.	Wordsmith: You can now roll this as any social skill to represent elegant use of wordplay, which should be especially effective to educated audiences. Quick Learner: You receive a 1-point discount on the XP cost of upgrading any skill for which you read a new textbook, once per textbook per level (minimum of 1 XP cost). Luminary: Written stories, poems and scripts you make during or after your adventure are guaranteed to become popular over time.
Negotiate	Use this social skill when you need to get a good deal on a simple purchase or a big contract or treaty.	You are rejected; viewed as greedy, selfish and cold. The target might agree but regret their decision or resent being outfoxed.	Diplomat: Once per session, if the enemy can hear you and shares a language, on your turn you can call for parley with a guaranteed success (on the call, not the settlement). Dignitary: Your first request for a meeting with a specific authority figure such as a monarch or CEO is approved without needing to roll. Lawyer: While you are negotiating on the subject of your party's or another person's illegal activities, you can roll this skill with 3 dice and keep the highest 2.
Talk	Use this social skill when you want to build relationships, get people to like you, and ask for favors using casual, friendly conversation.	You are viewed as overly needy or ungenuine. The target might agree to a favor but at the cost of respect or trust.	Party Animal: Attending a celebration or holiday of any kind heals you 10 health points and 1 point of exhaustion, and leaves you with a +1d6 that you can apply to any skill roll until your next event (maximum of 2 charges held). Charmer: People will view you as inexplicably more presentable, personable and attractive than the rest of the party. Flattery: While you are chatting with someone, they won't notice your first attempt to steal, snoop, cast magic, or plant traps/devices--the attempt may not succeed, but the failure won't be noticed.

Defensive skills help to protect your character in and out of combat, as well as other benefits.

Defensive Skill Name	Applications	Degrees of Success/Fail	Focus Abilities
Dodge	Used to try to avoid physical harm that can be avoided: blades, bullets, explosions or falling rocks. Roll vs. the threat's TN. Add this skill to your Initiative value.	Critical success: You take no damage or harm. Standard success: You take half damage, reduced by your armor to a minimum of 1 damage point. Fail: You take the enemy's rolled damage or harm, reduced by your armor. Critical fail: You take a critical hit: Maximum damage, reduced by your armor.	Nimble: +1 to HP. You can choose to roll dodge instead of Meditation vs. projectile or explosive spells. Repositioning: Whenever you succeed on a dodge check, you can opt to instantly jump or roll up to half your movement in any direction you choose. Nine Lives: Once per session you can guarantee a critical success roll for yourself with dodge.
Meditation	This skill can be rolled to resist magic attacks, psychic damage, other mental effects, or to be calm and focused in tough scenarios. This skill can also be rolled to sustain your concentration on spells and other things whenever it is threatened by attacks and distractions. In both cases, roll vs. the threat's TN. This skill improves your energy point regeneration rate: You regenerate [skill] EP per hour of meditation or rest.	Critical success: You take no effect from the enemy's spell or mental effect, or your concentration is maintained and empowered. Success: You take minimum damage or effect from the enemy's spell or mental effect, reduced by your armor if applicable, to a minimum of 1. Your concentration is maintained. Fail: You take the enemy's full damage or harm, reduced by your armor. Your concentration is lost, with normal consequences. Critical fail: You take a critical hit from the enemy's magic or mental effect, taking more than maximum damage, reduced by your armor if applicable. Your concentration is lost, with extra-dangerous consequences.	Steel Mind: +3 to HP. Unwavering Stance: While you are only either lightly armored or unarmored, add +2 to your damage reduction. Mantra: Add your Meditation skill to your maximum EP. If you did not already have EP, gain 5 + [skill] EP. maximum EP. You can spend 1 EP to improve any defense roll by +1 (maximum of 2 per roll).
Resilience	This skill adds directly to your maximum health points (HP). This skill also improves your health regeneration rate: You regenerate health equal to [1 + Resilience] per 8 hours of healthy food and comfortable rest. This skill can be rolled to resist intense heat, cold, disease, poison, radiation, pressure, and other un-dodge-able hazards. Resilience can also be used to represent proactive endurance, for example in drinking contests or staying silent when hurt.	Critically successful rolls result in minimum damage from hazards and peak human endurance. Successful rolls result in half damage from hazards and successful endurance. Failed rolls result in full damage from hazards and failures to endure physical challenges or temptations. Critically failed rolls result in maximum harm from hazards, illness, infection and exhaustion.	Resilient: +3 HP and +1 global DR. Your HP regeneration amount from resting is twice as fast: 1 + Resilience per 4 hours of comfortable rest. You also recover from exhaustion at double the normal rate. Dust Off: Once per session, if any type of hit would drop you to 0 HP, you can choose to floor your health at 1 HP. Endurance: You can roll resilience instead of other defense skills versus fire, ice, lightning and poison spells and weapons.

Arcane skills are psionic or magical skills used to attempt supernatural powers called spells. These powers are not meant for mortal hands, and each attempt with them is a privilege and a danger.

Rules:

Because they are privileged and powerful, arcane skills cannot be learned at all without at least one arcane focus skill.
One arcane focus skill allows learning that skill, while a second allows future investment in any arcane skill.

Arcane Skill Name	Applications	Potential Failures	Focus Abilities
Chronomancy	Viewing of the past, future, and alternate realities. Modifying these, changing the flow of time.	You may be charged more SP, you may be subjected to unwanted time-effects, change the timeline irreparably, or see visions of inevitable doom.	Acceleration: Add this skill directly to your initiative value. Compressed Study: This is a special level 3 spell; it allows you (only) to perform a day's worth of academic tasks by spending only 30 minutes in an extradimensional space of compressed time, starting with a 10-minute ritual. Visionary: You never get less than a basic success on your level 1 and 2 Visions spells.
Cryomancy	The use of arcane water, ice and cold primarily to destroy enemies, but also as a tool.	Failed cold spells may be less effective against targets, cost more sp, harm allies, or work entirely too well, or invite an unwanted elemental being.	Arcane Freeze: All your cold attack spells will arcane-freeze on hit if possible. Heat Sink: While it is raining, snowing, or while you are at least half submerged in water, you can roll this skill +1. Create Water: This is a special level 3 spell. When cast successfully, it summons 3 gallons of water from another dimension to a location you choose within 10m.
Electromancy	The use of arcane lightning primarily to destroy enemies, but also as a tool.	You may accidentally shock yourself, your friends, erase important data, lose additional EP, or start a fire.	Lightning Speed: You can add this skill to your initiative and you can use it to calculate your movement value. Shocking Hit: All of your electric attack spells will shock enemies on hit if possible. Your normal weapon attacks add +1 electrical damage. Energizing Touch: You can choose to transfer your energy points to/from allies at-will by consenting physical contact.
Illusion	Creating sensory illusions to deceive other beings.	The illusion may be less effective, cost more sp, or may be too real.	Never There: If you fail a dodge roll, you can spend 3 EP to roll it again with your Illusion skill. Blend In: If you fail a stealth roll, you can spend 3 EP to roll it again with your Illusion skill. Sense Deception: You will always instinctively have a binary sense if there is deception in a scene, no roll needed.
Metaphysics	Detecting & dispelling magical effects, modifying and upgrading other spells, combining and triggering spells.	Failed metaphysical manipulations may cost more EP, result in magical explosions, chaos magic effects, dimensional rifts, or anger deities.	Expanded Mind: +3 to Energy Points. Third Eye: You can cast the spell "Sense Arcane" at-will with no point cost or risk, like a professional skill. Spellweaver: You can choose to roll with 1d20 whenever you cast a spell that interacts with another spell in any way (dispel, enchant, etc).
Necromancy	Spells that primarily create undead minions but also provide weapons and tools related to death, bone, and poison.	Losing control of one's undead minions is a constant danger to students of this school, as well as the standard risks.	Mindless Servitude: Your successfully summoned undead minions do not require your concentration. Army of Death: You may have up to [your skill level] undead minions in service simultaneously. Pallid Mask: You have advantage to intimidate mortals, you have advantage to resist poison and disease, and you gain a limited ability to speak with rats, vultures, worms etc.
Pyromancy	The use of arcane fire, heat, and smoke primarily to destroy enemies, but also as a tool.	Stories of foolish firemages are legendary for causing disasters in many societies. You may accidentally blow up your city or summon greater fiends.	Ignition: All your fire attack spells ignite enemies on a successful hit if possible. Inner Flame: You can cast spells even while in the dying condition, and healers have advantage on rolls to stabilize or heal you. If you are killed, you can choose to have your body violently explode. Warmth: You recharge EP in hot areas even when not resting or meditating. If you are, then you recharge at double the rate.
Telekinetics	Moving objects without touching them, and transforming or changing things on a molecular level.	You may accidentally damage objects, have less control over objects, or move things entirely too quickly.	User of Force: When using your basic, unmodified, nonviolent TK Manipulation abilities, you can choose to get a basic success without rolling. Arcane Duelist: You can cast any Telekinetics spell that is usually an action, as your bonus action, for +1 to its EP cost. Ethereal Acrobatics: If you fail an athletics or dodge roll, you can roll it again with TK at a cost of 3 EP.
Telepathy	Reading minds, mental communication, mental harm, and mind control.	You may accidentally give away your own thoughts and intentions, cause unintended harm or nightmares, summon thought-demons, or engender unintended hostility.	Guarded Mind: You can roll Telepathy instead of Meditation to resist hostile telepathic effects. Mental Register: When cast for consenting targets within 100m, "Send Thoughts" has no action or EP cost. Emotional Projection: If you fail any social check, you can roll it again with Telepathy at a cost of 3 EP.
Teleportation	Near-instant translocation of yourself and other things, with some restrictions, by use of trans-dimensional shortcuts.	Failed teleportations can lead to missing cargo, lost passengers, twisted duplicates, and unfortunate rearrangements.	Geometric Awareness: You can cast the L2 TK spell, Spatial Awareness, with your teleportation skill. Planeswalker: You can cast "Sense Rifts" with no risk or point cost. Shifter: Teleporting yourself only has no cooldown when used for distances under 30 meters, and you can use at as a bonus action for +1 ep cost.
Vivithurgy	Healing, reshaping and otherwise modifying living biological entities.	Failed vivithurgy spells often cause unintended mutations or undesired homunculi.	Faith Healing: You gain the option to cast any of your basic unmodified HP healing spells with no roll and no risk. Quick Heal: You gain the option to modify a basic HP healing spell to a Bonus Action by increasing the EP cost and difficulty by +1. Telekinetic Healing: You gain the option to modify a basic HP healing spell to be used at a distance of up to 15m by increasing the EP cost and difficulty by +2.

Combat skills help the user both attack with and defend from weapons. Levels in combat skills increase your accuracy, damage, Initiative, and health.

In combat, you roll your combat skill to try to hit an enemy's defense target number, which the GM will tell you. If you hit, you apply damage, with some skills giving lower "graze" damage on a miss as well.

Having a weapon skill as a Focus Skill allows a player to apply a special attack effect on a hit, such as a shove, cleave or grapple. To gain more benefits, check out the combat talents.

Combat Skill Name	Applications	Statistics	Focus Abilities
Shoot	Covers all projectile-launching weapons, from slingstones to ion cannons. For thrown weapons such as javelins and grenades, you can also use Athletics. Some heavy cannons may require a certain minimum athletics skill to shoot without a fixed mount, and halve your speed. Shoot skill can also be used to intimidate with projectile weapons, but the specific action (trick shots etc) must be described and performed. Unlike melee attacks, missed shots generally do not deal half damage, except for shotguns and focused sharpshooters, below.	Add your Shoot skill to your Weapon Damage. Add your Shoot skill to your maximum Health Points. Add your Shoot skill to your Initiative value.	Sharpshooter: You can add a special effect on hit with Shoot. Once per battle, you can guarantee one projectile hit or miss result, before or after you roll. Snap Shot: While wielding a loaded ranged weapon, you can make 1 extra shot per round as a reaction during an enemy's turn at -2 accuracy. Gunslinger: Missed shots deal 2 damage. You can draw or switch ranged weapons by spending your bonus action.
Melee	This skill covers all attacks with melee weapons such as swords and spears and improvised melee weapons. Can also be used to intimidate, destroy, cut, or lever things. Most special attacks allowed, but Brawl is superior for throws & chokes.	Add your Melee skill to your Weapon Damage. Add your Melee skill to your maximum Health Points. Add your Melee skill to your Initiative value. Starting at level 1, missed swings apply half damage.	Battlemaster: You can add a special effect on hit with Melee. +2 to HP. Once per battle, you can guarantee one basic hit or miss result for any attack involving you in melee range, before or after you roll. Frenzy: Immediately after you defeat an enemy with a melee weapon, you can spend your bonus action to move 1 space and make another attack with the same weapon. Charge: If you use 2 actions to get into melee (moving and/or drawing a weapon), you can make 1 free melee attack.
Brawl skill	Brawl skill covers all martial arts, wrestling and unarmed combat. To use it, you must generally have your hands or feet free. Can also be used to intimidate people or destroy things, though punching stone or metal may hurt you. Brawl skill allows a wide variety of special attacks, including grapples, throws, chokes, pins, etc.	Damage with Brawl is two times your skill level, or 1 if you are untrained. Add your Brawl skill to your maximum Health Points. Add your Brawl skill to your Initiative value. Starting at level 1, missed swings apply half damage.	Martial Artist: You can add a special effect on hit with Brawl. +1 to Brawl damage per level (total of 3 per level), and +2 to HP. Resolute Technique: Once per scene, you can guarantee one basic hit or miss at close range, before or after you roll. Duck and Weave: You can roll Brawl as a defense skill against any type of attack or spell made against you in melee range. Flurry: At any time, you can spend your Bonus Action to make one Brawl attack.