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32 Chapter 3: Attributes and Skills “I design and build microchips. I have doctorates in physics and microengineering. I’m sixteen years old. It’s a long story.” —Dr. Hachi Mara-Two In Chapters One and Two, you were briefly introduced to attributes and skills. This chapter contains a detailed description of each individual attribute and skill, including notes that allow you and your gamemaster to resolve the use of a specific ability during play. Attributes are abilities or characteristics common to every living thing in the Infiniverse. Thus, a martial artist and a grizzly bear both have a Strength and a Dexterity, though the bear’s Strength is probably higher than that of the martial artist and the martial artist probably has a better Dexterity than the bear. The seven attributes are Dexterity, Strength, Toughness, Perception, Mind, Charisma, and Spirit. Skills, on the other hand, are characteristics that creatures and characters may or may not possess. A doctor from Nippon Tech and a US Army medic from Core Earth would both possess the medicine skill, while an edeinos warrior from the primitive Living Land and a horse from the Nile Empire certainly wouldn’t possess this skill. The edeinos and the horse, however, might each have the running skill, while the doctor and the medic might not. Most characters in Torg possess several skills. Attributes and skills are related. Each and every skill in Torg is based on a specific attribute, which serves as an indicator of the character’s natural aptitude with abilities associated with that attribute. Skills represent additional knowledge and training that improves upon that base. A character that Skill Adds Versus Skill Values Sometimes people with similar amounts of training and experience nonetheless have noticeable differences in what they’re actually capable of doing. Similarly, there are cases where the new rookie proves to be just as good if not better than the old pros. Situations like this are handled in Torg by using skill values rather than skill adds to indicate a character’s overall ability in a particular field. The number of adds in a skill can be used to gauge a character’s level of education and experience in a field but his overall capabilities are measured by his skill value. Characters who are more naturally talented in a particular area, represented by a higher attribute value, can have skill values as good as or better than characters with more skill adds but a lower attribute. Example: Both Magoth and Terrill have a divination magic skill value of 15, so they have similar capabilities in the field. Magoth has Perception 11 and four adds in the skill while Terrill has Perception 13 and two adds in the skill. Terrill has not put as much effort into learning divination magic or has less experience with it than Magoth but his natural aptitude as represented by his higher Perception attribute makes up the difference. wants to avoid being hit by a crossbow bolt would depend on his Dexterity, but if he has the dodge skill that represents an additional capability to avoid the attack. A skilled character’s base attribute value is added to his skill adds to yield the skill value for that particular skill. Skill values are the numbers that are most frequently used during play. Example: Paul’s character Quin has one add in the survival skill and a Mind value of 8. Since survival is based on the Mind attribute, Quin’s Mind value is added to his skill add to yield a survival skill value of 9. Making a Skill Check Whenever your character needs to perform a task covered by one of his skills, you generate a number by rolling a 20-sided die and consulting the bonus chart. The number from the chart is added to the character’s attribute or skill value to arrive at the action total, sometimes also called the skill total. Your gamemaster then compares your number to the difficulty number of the task to see if your character succeeds or fails. You’ll note that the bonus chart goes higher than 20. How can you roll more than a 20 on one die? Torg allows characters to sometimes reroll the die and add the second roll to the first. High die totals over 20 become possible, giving characters large bonus numbers and allowing them to perform the same kind of amazing and death-defying feats as the heroes in adventure fiction. Whenever a character rolls a 10 they have, they get to reroll. If the second a 10 the player may keep rolling and adding if she wishes, or she may stop if she’s satisfied with the total. The final total of all the rolls is then used on the bonus chart.
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