This is the skill list for Crystal Orb Adventures.
- appraise helps determine the value of objects
- athletics helps reduce endurance costs when moving through difficult terrain.
- awareness is used to check to automatically check for sneaking characters.
- healing helps recover hit points whilst resting
- meditation improves mana recovery.
- initiative helps determine who acts first in a fight
- searching helps find items hidden in containers or lost in rooms
- speechcraft helps haggling with shopkeepers and with diplomacy
- sneaking is activated with the sneak command, and attempts to move around unseen. Some actions will end a sneak, as will being spotted by someone you can see.
- thaumaturgy helps spellcasters work out what spells they know and what runes are available when they level up. Note that not knowing about a spell does not necessarily mean you cannot cast it. Non-spellcasters use this skill to attempt to use magic items such as scrolls.
- wrangling has limited use with the Nature Talent special skill to handle animals
- arcanology is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking constructs, dragons or magical beasts.
- dungeoneering is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking abberations or oozes.
- hunting is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking animals, vermin, giants, plants, humanoids or fey.
- spiritology is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking the undead.
- theology is used when harvesting, identifying or tracking immortals and elementals.
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