Buying Skills

Skills

Skills in rage are used to represent what your character is good at, they add to all your dice rolls to give you better success rates and better results when using those skills, there are several different types of skills in the game.

Core Skills
Core skills are basic skills that every character should have, they are your resistances, your saving throws and your hit points, without them you won’t last long.

General Skills
These are the most common skills characters get, things like perception, searching and athletics, things that are common to everyone

Martial Skills
Martial skills are focused around a military discipline or skill with a particular weapon or armour, they are mostly physical and discipline based skills

Diplomatic Skills
Diplomatic skills are all about talking, they are your skills used to relate to or bully others and excel in social situations.

Arcane Skills
Arcane skills allow you to shape elemental powers and wield arcane energy, arcane skills are primarily of a spell casting nature and require a lot of movement and practice, and they suffer greatly from Armour Encumbrance.

Divine Skills
Divine skills are all about your connection to a spiritual ideal, it’s about aligning your mind and ethos to a certain ideal be it Hope, Hate, Law anything and becoming a physical embodiment of that Ideal, Divine skills are mainly spell casting skills

Channelling Skills
Channelling skills are about your ability to draw on and use the energy of other beings and dimensions like Demons, Death, Spirits, Nature etc, It is one of the more diverse skill ranges but primarily focuses on creating allies and autonomous creatures or modifying the terrain around you.

Espionage Skills
Espionage skills are about deception, stealth and techniques, It covers sneaking around in the night, breaking into buildings as well as disguise, spycraft and covert operations.

Buying Skills

To increase your skills in rage you spend experience which is awarded at the end of each game, you start the game with a rank of 0 in each skill and you have to buy each rank using the following table: You cannot skip ranks and you must have the previous rank to buy the next one.

Total Skill Modifier

When working out the value to add to your dice roll there are a few different factors to consider, most skills have an ability linked to it that will allow you to add your ability onto your skill to get a higher total, there are also items that will increase your total and sometimes spells, Remember to factor in the following: