The Skill List

Fading Suns classifies skills into two types: Natural Skills and Learned Skills.

Natural Skills

Natural Skills are, basically, things that any character can do. Characters can improve their natural skills, but all characters have them. In Hero terms, some Natural Skills are Everyone Skills (Sneak/Stealth), some are standard maneuvers (Dodge), and some are close to characteristics (Impress seems close to Presence).

Natural Skills are difficult to translate directly into Hero terms, and some judgement must be used in all cases.

Fading Suns Skill Hero System Skill Charm Presence (or, in some cases, Seduction or Conversation, depending on character concept) Dodge Standard Maneuver Fight Standard Attacks Impress Presence Melee Standard Attacks Observe Perception Shoot Weapon Familiarity and Combat Skill Levels (not necessarily an Everyone skill in Hero) Sneak Stealth Vigor Running, Jumping, Swimming, Climbing and Endurance for Holding Breath.

The Learned Skills

Fading Suns Learned Skill Hero System Skill Academia PS: Academic, PS: Researcher, or Inventor Acrobatics Acrobatics Alchemy PS: Alchemist or Science: Chemistry Archery Combat Skill Levels, Penalty Skill Levels or other combat skills Artisan PS: Blacksmith, PS: Carpenter, PS: Cartographer, PS: Cook, PS: Jeweler, PS: Leatherworker, etc. Arts PS: Calligrapher, PS: Drawing, PS: Embroidery, PS: Illumination, etc. Beast Lore Animal Handler Bureaucracy Bureaucracy Combat Actions Martial Arts (including weapon-based Martial Arts, like Fencing) Crossbow Weapon Fam: Crossbow Disguise Disguise Drive Transport Fam, Combat Driving, or Combat Piloting Empathy Science: Psychology, or KS: (Culture) Etiquette (High Society) High Society Focus Generally represented using EGO Gambling Gambling Inquiry PS: Investigator, Criminology or Interrogation Knavery Persuasion Lockpicking Lockpicking Lore KS: (Things), KS: (Alien Cultures), KS: (Regions), KS: Jumpweb Performance Acting, PS: Dancing, PS: Musician Physick PS: Physician or PS: Surgeon Read Literacy with a Language (see Speak) Remedy Paramedics Ride Riding Science Science Search Concealment Sleight of Hand Sleight of Hand Social: Acting Acting Social: Debate Conversation, Persuasion Social: Leadership Leadership Social: Oratory Oratory Spacesuit PS: Spacesuit Operations Speak Language Stoic Body Resistance or Life Support Stoic Mind Mental Defence Streetwise Streetwise Survival Survival Tech Redemption Electronics, Mechanics, Weaponsmith or Professional Skills Think Machine Systems Operations Throwing Weapon Familiarity, combat skills Torture Interrogation Tracking Tracking Warfare: Artillery Weapon Familiarity Warfare: Demolitions Demolitions Warfare: Gunnery Weapon Familiarity Warfare: Military Tactics Tactics Xeno-Empathy KS: (Alien Culture) or Science: Xeno-Psychology

Everyone Skills

The Fading Suns notion of "Natural Skills" is a list of skills that all characters have automatically. Its intention, therefore, is identical to the intention of Hero System Everyone Skills. Fading Suns campaigns should have the following Everyone Skills:

The Natural Skills (Everyone Skills) Acting, 8- AK: [Home World], 8- Climbing, 8- Concealment, 8- Conversation, 8- Deduction, 8- Language, [Native Language] (idiomatic) Paramedics, 8- Persuasion, 8- Shadowing, 8- Stealth, 8-

Most characters are assumed to speak Urthist, unless they're alien. Literacy is not included for free.

Skill Notes

Languages

The following languages are common:

Languages Race Language Notes Gannok Tok Tok No written form Human (Known Worlders) Urthish     Urthtech Engineers only   Graceful Tongue al-Malik only   Scraver's Cant Scraver's only   Latin   Vorox Vorox

Tech Redemption

The following skills represent the Tech Redemption skills in Fading Suns.

Tech Redemption Fading Suns Skill Hero System Skill Craft Redemption PS: Craft Redemption (repair of crafted items) Mech Redemption Mechanics Volt Redemption Electronics High Tech Redemption PS: High Tech Redemption -- Jumpdrives PS: High Tech Redemption -- Golems PS: High Tech Redemption -- Think Machines