Changeling - Players Guide.pdf

First Aid
This Skill allows a character to give basic medical
attention to another character. It is not as comprehensive an
Ability as the Medicine Knowledge, but it does allow for a
basic grasp of all the practices of first aid, and, at higher levels,
techniques known to paramedics.
• Novice: Mother of small children
• • Practiced: Boy Scout
• • • Competent: Office safety representative
• • • • Expert: School nurse
• i • • • Master: Paramedic
Possessed by: Mothers, Boy Scouts, Paramedics, Explorers,
Outdoors Types, Boggans
Specialties: CPR, Broken Bones, Artificial Respiration,
Diagnosis, Terminology, Patch-up
Gambling
You are adept at one or more games of chance, and can
play without too much risk of losing heavily. You can also
increase your chances of winning without actually cheating.
• Novice: Saturday night poker with the boys.
• • Practiced: A couple of weeks in Vegas
each year.
• • • Competent: You are known in Vegas,
Reno and Atlantic City.
• • • • Expert: You make a living from this. Your
mother despairs.
• • • • • Master: You have to be careful not to tell
people your name.
Possessed by: Professional Gamblers, Amateur Gamblers
Specialties: Card Games, Dice, Roulette, One-Armed
Bandits
Game Playing
This Skill covers games of strategy and skill such as chess,
go, xiang qui, hnefatafl and so on. It does not cover cards
games (see Gambling), or simple games like tic-tac-toe,
which rely largely on luck. Human chess games, in which
enchanted humans are ordered to move about a large board,
are quite popular among the nobility (especially the Unseelie
Court).
• Novice: You can beat your older sister.
• • Practiced: You could get on a school team.
• • • Competent: You could get on a college team.
• • • • Expert: You can beat most computers.
• • • • • Master: You are one of the masters.
Possessed by: Enthusiasts, Nobility
Specialties: Chess, Go, Risk, Mah Jong, 3D Chess
Gunsmithing
You can repair firearms and produce ammunition for a
variety of different guns. At high levels of skill, you can
construct specialty ammunition, such as caseless, hollowpoint,
mercury-tipped or silver bullets. Given the time and
the tools (and enough skill), you can build a gun from scratch
— perhaps even one of your own design.
• Novice: Black powder and paper cartridges
• • Practiced: Cased standard ammunition
• • • Competent: Magnum rounds
• • • • Expert: Caseless and hollow-point rounds
• • • • • Master: You name it.
Possessed by: Gun Nuts, Survivalists, Cops, Serial
Killers, Nocker Weaponsmiths
Specialties: Black Powder Weapons, Field Repair, Invention,
Magnum and Supercharged Ammunition, Specialty
Ammunition
Hunting
You are skilled at finding and killing animals for food or
sport. In familiar terrain, you are able to predict the type,
number and likely location of food animals and know the best
ways to find and kill them.
• Novice: Weekender
• • Practiced: Enthusiast or Trooper
• • • Competent: Survivalist or Marine
• • • • Expert: Special Forces
• • • • • Master: You give pointers to werewolves.
Possessed by: Survivalists, Military Personnel, Pre-
Industrial Societies, Outdoor Types
Specialties: Temperate Forest, Jungle, Bush/Scrub,
Mountain, Coast, Arctic, Desert
Hypnotism
You can place a subject into a trance and use hypnotism to
gather information or treat psychiatric problems. To place a
willing subject into a trance, make an opposed roll of your
Charisma + Hypnotism against the subject's Intelligence. (For an
unwilling subject who is immobilized to comply, use Intelligence
+ Willpower). The number of successes indicates the depth of the
trance and can be added to your Hypnotism to roll for the success
of tasks. For example, a hypnotist with Charisma 4 and Hypnotism
4 hypnotizes a willing subject with Intelligence 5. The
hypnotist rolls five successes and the subject rolls 2 — a total of
three successes in the hypnotist's favor, indicating a fairly deep
trance. The hypnotist can now roll seven dice (three successes
plus four dice from Hypnotism 4) to probe the subject's mind.
• Novice: You do it to entertain occasionally.
• • Practiced: You are a skilled amateur.
• • • Competent: You can find some interesting
secrets; you can do this as part of your
profession.