Another first text draft.
The skill list is obviously heavily based on the Black Industries, then Fantasy Flight Games, incarnation of Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay, Dark Heresy foremost. Still, it is not a completely straight copy, mixing and matching from across different books, re-mixing, re-interpreting, leaving some things out and even adding some little things in.
Charisma used for social interactions.
Command used specifically for issuing orders and getting obeyed based on real or perceived authority – successfully used, it can also create this very perception of authority.
Commerce used for business planning, negotiations, operations, and analysis.
Cryptology used for creating and breaking ciphers and understanding underlying principles, methods, and approaches.
Decadence used for both creating and enjoying the finer things in life be it art, food, music, drink, games, or flesh.
Fieldcraft used for survival, for tracking, and for hunting and caring for animals and beasts.
Forbidden Lore used to recall, research, and even understand things dangerous to contemplate. Topics include
- Forbidden Lore (Adeptus Mechanicus)
- Forbidden Lore (Archeotech)
- Forbidden Lore (Chaos Space Marines)
- Forbidden Lore (Chaos)
- Forbidden Lore (Criminal)
- Forbidden Lore (Cults)
- Forbidden Lore (Daemonology)
- Forbidden Lore (Heresy)
- Forbidden Lore (Horus Heresy and the Long War)
- Forbidden Lore (Inquisition)
- Forbidden Lore (local)
- Forbidden Lore (Mutants)
- Forbidden Lore (Navigators)
- Forbidden Lore (Officio Assassinorum)
- Forbidden Lore (Ordos)
- Forbidden Lore (Psykers)
- Forbidden Lore (The Black Library)
- Forbidden Lore (Warp)
- Forbidden Lore (Xenos)
Investigation used to gather and extract information by inquiry, intimidation, or interrogation.
Language used to understand and communicate various languages. Languages include
- Language (Administratum)
- Language (Binary)
- Language (Chaos Speech)
- Language (dialect)
- Language (Ecclesiarchy)
- Language (group ciphers)
- Language (High Gothic)
- Language (Low Gothic)
- Language (Techna-Lingua)
- Language (Trader’s Cant)
- Language (xenos)
Linguistics used for the underlying art and science of language and expression, from cataloguing and deciphering unkown signs, to crafting and delivering formal speeches.
Logic used for structured problem solving and data analysis.
Medicae used to diagnose, treat, or prevent illness and injury, examine bodies, living or dead, identify and apply drugs and medicines.
Navigate used for orientation, mapping and map reading, planning routes and plotting courses. Environments include
- Navigate (Stellar)
- Navigate (Surface)
- Navigate (Warp)
Observation used for general awareness and for broad and targeted searches.
Psyniscience used for feeling out and interpreting auras and psychic resonances and remnants.
Scholastic Lore used for academic and encyclopaedic knowledge and research. Topics include
- Scholastic Lore (Adeptus Terra)
- Scholastic Lore (Archaic)
- Scholastic Lore (Astromancy)
- Scholastic Lore (Beasts)
- Scholastic Lore (Bureaucracy)
- Scholastic Lore (Chymistry)
- Scholastic Lore (Cryptology)
- Scholastic Lore (Heraldry)
- Scholastic Lore (Imperial Creed)
- Scholastic Lore (Imperial Warrants)
- Scholastic Lore (Judgement)
- Scholastic Lore (Legend)
- Scholastic Lore (Navis Nobilite)
- Scholastic Lore (niche field)
- Scholastic Lore (Numerology)
- Scholastic Lore (Occult)
- Scholastic Lore (Philosophy)
- Scholastic Lore (Tactica Imperialis)
Shadowcraft used to deceive by word or deed, to disguise yourself, others, or things, build, understand, and defeat security measures from simple locks and spyholes to complex alarm systems, and to perform sleights of hands or other legerdemain.
Stealth used to move silently and unseen, to conceal and camouflage, find hiding spots, and to follow and shadow others.
Techcraft used to deal with machines and their spirits, use, repair and even build them, to prepare, perform, or prevent, by defusing, demolitions, and to concot alchemical mixtures.
Trade used to perform a trade or craft.