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Skills

Skills in SORC are specialized abilities directly tied to a character’s chosen Profession and form the backbone of their craftsmanship. Each Profession provides access to a unique set of skills, allowing characters to perform intricate tasks - such as forging weapons, preparing elaborate meals, or crafting potent remedies - that define their role and expertise within the game world. As characters gain experience and invest aptitude points, their skills progress through multiple tiers, unlocking advanced techniques and recipes that enhance their craftsmanship. Success with skills relies on a blend of experience, appropriate tools, and situational modifiers, making the development of professional skills a key driver of both creative problem-solving and character progression.

Professions are unlocked by initially investing 2 points, enabling point allocation to skills during creation and progression. Skills progress through specific tiers, each requires aptitude points. Aptitude is granted similarly to REM Points for Character Level progression. Apprentice: x apt. points
Journeyman: x apt. points
Expert: x apt. points
Artisan: x apt. points
Master: x apt. points
Grandmaster: x apt. points

Skills require dice rolls, adjusted by relevant modifiers, to meet or exceed each recipe’s given Difficulty Score (DIFS) or if the GM Chooses, adjusted by them. Refer to “Host Development” for more on this.

There are various levels of completion of crafting attempts;
Result Value Ladder for Crafted items in ascending order:

• Broken
• Poor
• Fair
• Good
• Extravagant
• Exquisite
• Masterful
• Perfect

The above values are determined randomly exactly how Rarity of Host encounters are.

Perfect items are never found or discovered, only crafted because Perfect items only hold their attributes to whom they were made for. Wielded or worn by anyone besides who they were made for, unparallel items lose their special abilities and attributes. For more information on loot and discovery, refer to; Currency, Loot, Crafting and Discovery.

Successful attempts advance the story and award experience, enhancing skills and unlocking more complex recipes and abilities as characters progress. Starting at the Apprentice level, characters can discover or purchase recipes, with the ability to create new ones at the Artisan level. Recipes align with the skill level - from Apprentice through Grandmaster - providing benefits that scale with the Character’s expertise.

Profession Tree Tables

Before delving into each Profession tree, we'll first take a look at how the tree system works. Profession trees display the progression of skills and abilities available within each Profession. The table is divided into three main categories, such as Smithy (weapons & armor), Utility & Gear (tools, items, components), and Arcane & Advanced Craft (enchantments, upgrades, and techcraft). Each row represents a new level of skill or specialization.

Each cell describes a specific skill or crafting ability. It provides a base recipe, the required materials, and the tools or workshop needed. Itens of base recipes will vary, depending on the sources of their respective planets and regions. For instance; "Raw Meat" coukd be that od a sacred fish, dinosaur or dwindling dodo. in the same regard, an ignot coild refer to various different types of metals. These particulars also determine the cost of materils and value, in sny respective currency. Some skills may have multiple recipes or applications.

The rightmost column lists the Prerequisites for each skill. These include the Point Cost, minimum attribute score (such as Artistry), required scores in earlier skills, and a reminder to check the cell for specific recipes, tools, or workshop requirements.

You progress through a Profession tree by first unlocking basic skills at the top, then meeting the requirements to unlock more advanced options in later rows.

Materials can be hunted, gathered, mined, or harvested, or purchased from vendors. Availability and pricing may depend on the vendor or your standing with certain factions. Some materials or recipes may only be available through trade, questing, or exploration.

Tools and workshops are required for crafting, as listed in each recipe. Advanced skills may need specialized equipment or rare components.

Character Professions

Characters may select from this list at creation or through in-game progression. Skills and recipes are tied to Profession trees. Some professions may become NPC-only upon retirement. Profession Skills also bridge with certain Talents characters learn from Talent Trees.

Work While Away: Profession work doesn't stop just because a session ends. A character can keep crafting, training, or running their trade in the real-world stretch between sessions, resolved as a batch of Crafting Resolution checks at the start of the next session, capped at one in-game day's worth of that character's Endurance. See Work While Away (Between Sessions), Basic Rules pg. 5.

Profession Flare

Crafting output isn't the only thing a Profession grants. Every Profession also comes with a handful of signature gear pieces, the tools and trade-wear of that craft, that carry a small mechanical bonus on top of whatever the Character is actually crafting.