Basics of Game Design

Creating Player Characters

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RPG Skills

Skills are specialties learned by characters while preparing for entry

into a class or becoming more procient in it. One way to distin-

guish one character class from another is to assign certain skills to a

class that others can’t perform. For example, the rogue class is oen

given the ability to pick pockets and crack locks that other charac-

ters can’t. e skills can also be related to weaponry so that a certain

class gains a positive modier when using one weapon type—for ex-

ample, a ranger getting a +2 modier whenever she uses a bow of any

kind. ere can also be negative modiers associated with