Skills & Specialties

Academics (Mental)

Academics reflects understanding, higher education, and ability to research fields within the humanities and the liberal arts.

Specialties — Architecture, English Literature, History of Art, History (specific Field or Period), Journalism, Philosophy, Research, Teaching, Theology.

Animal Ken (Social)

Animal Ken allows you to cow, pacify, and even befriend animals.

Specialties — Attack Training, Cats, Dogs, Falconry, Horses, Pacification, Rats, Snakes, Stunt Training, Wolves.

Athletics (Physical)

Athletics allows you to outpace someone in pursuit, leap out of the way of an oncoming car, and climb and swim like a healthy, robust living person.

Specialties — Acrobatics, Archery, Climbing, Endurance, Jumping, Parkour, Swimming, Throwing.

Awareness (Mental)

Awareness handles your perceptions, including hearing faint sounds, and detecting subtle movement.

Specialties — Ambushes, Camouflage, Concealed Objects, Hearing, Instincts, Smell, Sight, Traps, Wilderness.

Brawl (Physical)

Brawl enables characters to hit their target when they swing with fist, boot, claw, or any other unarmed attack.

Specialties — Animals, Armed Mortals, Bar Fights, Grappling, Kindred, Sporting Combat, Unarmed Mortals, Werewolves, While in Protean Beast Form.

Craft (Physical)

Craft broadly encompasses artistry, creation of items and utilities from the beautiful to the functional, and arts and crafts from throwing pottery all the way to building a house.

Specialties — Carpentry, Carving, Design, Painting, Sculpting, Sewing, Weaponsmithing.

Drive (Physical)

Drive connotes the ability to drive fast and safely under adverse conditions or in stressful situations: to drive off-road, speed away from ambushes, or win street races.

Specialties — All-Terrain Vehicles, Evasion, Motorcycles, Street Racing, Stunts, Tailing, Trucks, Vintage Models.

Etiquette (Social)

Etiquette is the ability to identify and respond to the social conventions in the current scene, set new protocols, and please everyone around with your good graces.

Specialties — Anarch, Camarilla, Celebrities, Corporate, Elysium, Feudal, One-Percenter, Secret Society.

Finance (Mental)

Finance allows you to identify trends in the market, invest well, manipulate stock, and know when a fall is coming.

Specialties — Appraisal, Banking, Black Markets, Corporate Finance, Currency Manipulation, Fine Art, Forensic Accounting, Money Laundering, Stock Market.

Firearms (Physical)

Firearms comprises familiarity with, and maintenance, and use of small arms from holdout pistols to assault rifle, as well as other trigger-operated weapons, such as crossbows and shoulder-fired rocket-propelled grenades.

Specialties — Crossbows, Gun Dealing, Gunsmithing, Handloading Ammunition, Quick-Draw, Sniper, Trick Shooting.