Fundamentals:Trade Skills

Most trade skills are related to a profession or particular lifestyle, such as Farming, Hunting, and Mining. Trade skills can also represent more specific abilities, such as Cartography, Disguise, Gambling, and Forgery. As mentioned above, Trade Skills have two components: an Application score and a Lore/Theory score. The Application score is used any time your character attempts to perform a task using the skill, such as catching a fish (Fishing) or maintaining direction through the forest (Orienteering). The Lore/Theory score is used to recall information or investigate and speculate regarding a skill, such as using tracks to determine the types of animals in an area (Hunting) or recalling the uses of a particular plant (Herbalism).