Skills
Category	Game Concepts
Scale	0 – 100
Skill levels	25 / 50 / 75 / 100
Weapon & armor	9
Gathering & crafting	13

Skills

Heroes grow two kinds of skill, both on a scale of 0 to 100. Using a skill can raise it by 0.1; the lower the skill, the better the chance (at 0 the chance is 1 in 2, near 100 almost none). A skill’s value sets its level:

Weapon and armor skills

Nine skills govern weapons and armor. Each class can raise them only up to its own level cap:

Gathering and crafting skills

Thirteen skills cover gathering and crafting. A new hero spreads 100 points among them, at most 50 in one. Wizardry is open only to Wizards, Clerics and Bards, and Enchanting only to Wizards and Clerics; every other skill is open to all classes up to 100.

Mining raises how much a hero can dig by hand each week: the tool's weekly work × (1 + Mining ÷ 100). It also sets how far ore can be seen underground, for the hero and the town's Miners alike: 8 tiles + 0.16 per point, from 8 tiles (80 ft) at 0 to 24 tiles (240 ft) at 100. See Underground.

See also

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