Squawk Computer Game Design

Squawk Abilities:

General Abilities

Alchemy - create useable items (potions and bombs)
Animal Handling - includes wrangling and riding (use, maintain and tame animals)
Craftsmanship - create durable goods (equipment)
Communication - includes leadership and charisma (recruit and influence NPCs)
Detection - notice ambushes and traps, search for hidden things, follow tracks
Illusion - create illusions, distractions, misdirection, sleight of hand
Stealth - move silently, hide in shadows, ambush, spy, escape detection
Synerga - use special synerga powers

Athletic Abilities

Athletic Abilities are General Abilities used to determine Hit Points. (HP = the sum of your 2 highest athletic abilities.)

Acrobatics - tumbling, leaping and balance. A bonus to all kinds of acrobatic stunts and reducing damage from falling or being thrown.
Climbing - useful for getting around in trees, on mountains and other vertical environments.
Flying - only Rocs have this ability. It determines a character's speed and agility while flying.
Running - improves running speed and efficiency. Helps avoid minor obstacles.
Swimming - improves speed, swimming endurance and diving ability.
Stamina - endurance for all kinds of physical activity and stress.
Strength - muscular power, especially for lifting, pushing, bending, and so on.
Yoga - improves health and flexibility through exersizes that unite the body and mind. Yoga excercizes are often part of magic or martial-arts training. Yoga ability level is added as a defensive bonus against wrench attacks.

Hand to Hand

Your Hand to Hand combat bonus is determined by combining a General Ability (Hand to Hand System or "fighting style") and a Skill (Weapon Proficiency.) See Martial Arts.

Hand to Hand Systems (fighting styles)

Constriction - grappling/sticky style.
Tao Rho - striking/hard style.
Syncrase - manuevering/soft/pushing style.
One Leg Lance - for fighting like a Roc Loyalist
(see Martial Arts for specific details.)

Weapon Proficiencies

Natural Weapons - wrestling, unarmed combat or boxing
Short Weapons - club and knife-like weapons
Long Weapons - staff and spear-like weapons
Flexible Weapons - articulated and soft weapons

Missile Weapons

Marksmanship

This is a general ability that applies to all missile weapons.

Missile Weapon Skills

Throwing - accurately throwing and catching weapons and other objects
Archery - bows except for crossbows
Firearms - directly aimed, trigger-fired weapons (crossbows and most guns)
Artillery - indirectly aimed, long-range weapons (cannons, mortars, siege weapons)

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