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That would be a Knowledge (Academic) check.Engineering (Intellect)While craftsmen make and repair most everydayitems, engineers deal with much morecomplicated devices. The Engineering skillcovers the ability to design and construct complexmechanisms, as well as to prepare (and destroy)defense structures and siege machines.Your character should use thisskill if...• Your character tries to design a completelynew device.• Your character wants to repair an ancientmachinery.• Your character attempts to plant explosives.• Your character constructs a trebuchet orbuilds a defensive fighting position.• Your character performs routine actionswhen exiting port.• Your character tries to repair a damagedship. That would require a Crafts check.• Your character tries to recall some informationabout the lands they are sailing to. TheKnowledge (Academic) skill covers that.Combat SkillsThe Old World expansion introduces one newcombat skill - Firearms, and slightly modifiesone already present in the Genesys Core Rulebook- Gunnery.Your character should not usethis skill if...• Your character creates something simple, likean axe or a backpack. The Crafts skill is moreappropriate in this case.• Your character tries to create a gunpowder.That would require an Alchemy check.Sailing (Intellect)The roads of the Old World are full of bandits,mutants and other dangers. So it is not surprisingthat a large part of the population live offriver and sea transport. The Sailing skill coversmost activities related to operating a boat,water navigation as well as knowledge of riversand seas. It can also be considered the equivalentof the Survival skill while on the water.Your character should use thisskill if...• Your character tries to navigate throughunknown waters.• Your character operates a barge on a wildand unpredictable river.• Your character needs to notice an approachingstorm and know how to prepare for it.Your character should not usethis skill if...104 The Old World: Grim and Perilous
Gunnery (Intellect)Gunnery is in most part identical to the Gunneryskill described on page 69 of Genesys CoreRulebook. The difference is, in The Old Worldsetting most of the Gunnery weapons like cannons,siege crossbows or trebuches require anability to quickly calculate ballistic trajectory insteadof a simple hand-eye coordination, thusthe skill is tied with Intellect in place of Agility.Firearms (Agility)Gunpowder weapons are gaining popularity onthe battlefields of the Old World. They are loud,heavy and unreliable. However, they provide aconsiderable advantage thanks to their high firepower. The Firearms skill covers usage and dayto day maintenance of gunpowder weapons.Your character should use thisskill if...• Your character tries to attack using a pistol,arquebus, blunderbuss or similar, personalgunpowder weapon.• Your character attempts to repair minordamage of their gunpowder weapon (seepage 89 of Genesys Core Rulebook).Your character should not usethis skill if...• Your character tries to shoot a crossbow,bow or throw something. The Ranged skillshould be used here.• Your character attempts to repair a moderateor major damage of their gunpowder weapon(see page 89 of Genesys Core Rulebook).This would require a Crafts or Engineeringcheck (whatever is more appropriate).• Your character fires a cannon or some kindof siege weapon.Knowledge SkillsThe skills presented here are meant to replacethe single Knowledge skill described in theGenesys Core Rulebook.Skills linkedto the IntellectMost of the skills are quite intuitional and yourcharacter does not need any special training totry their chances in most of these tasks. The onlyexception presented in the Genesys Core Rulebookare magic skills, because characters have topurchase at least one rank in those skills to usethem. However, in The Old World setting specializedknowledge and "know-how" is often kept asa secret of the respective guild or university andpassed from masters to their students. Because ofthis, if your character makes a check with a skilllinked to Intellect that is not their career skill orthey don't have at least one rank in that skill, theyupgrade the difficulty of the check once.Academic (Intellect)Academic represents a broad category of specialized,scholarly knowledge available only to thosewith some kind of formal education. It encompassesthings like biology, astrology, history, law,theology and many other areas of science thatmay seem useless to common folk. A characterwith ranks in Knowledge (Academic) can recallrelevant historical events, recognize the coatof arms of local nobleman, identify poisonousplants or avoid breaking the law unknowingly.Your character should use thisskill if...• Your character tries to find relevant informationin a library.• Your character attempts to read a map.• Your character tries to calculate when anastronomical phenomenon will occur.Your character should not usethis skill if...• Your character needs to know somethingtrivial or something that belongs to commonknowledge such as the dates of popularreligious celebrations.• Your character tries to recall something relatedto Chaos or magic. That area of knowledgeis covered by Knowledge (Chaos) skill.Chaos (Intellect)Chaos is the power that permeates and changesreality. It is the source of magic, daemons,mutants and other unnatural, strange phe-The Old World: Grim and Perilous 105
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DevelopmentMariusz Szymański, Barb
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Table of ContentsChapter 1: Creatin
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Chapter 1Creating YourCharacterIn t
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Table 1-2: Available Specialization
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Core Rulebook, page 45. However, in
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• Corruption Threshold8 + Presenc
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Imperial OgreOgres are a large, pow
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knowledge. Most of them avoid trave
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Specializationprogression andprofes
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CraftsmanExecutionerStarting GearEx
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Military EngineerIt was the Dwarfs
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NobleEnvoyEnvoys are hired by natio
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nobleKnightKnights are elite profes
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rogueCharlatanCharlatans are extrem
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RogueRacketeerRacketeers make up th
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RogueThiefThieves include blackmail
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ScholarAgitatorOld World politics i
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Priest of ShallyaShallya is the god
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Amber WizardGhur - the brown wind o
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Bright WizardAs dangerous and unpre
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Gold WizardChamon, the yellow wind
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Jade WizardWhile most wizards are u
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CavaleristCavalerists are light-arm
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MarksmanMarksman are the ranged tro
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SoldierOfficerOfficers are trained
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Page 56 and 57: WandererEntertainerThe lives of mos
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Page 60 and 61: wandererRivermanMuch of life in the
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Page 70 and 71: Chapter 2New TalentsIn this chapter
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Page 84 and 85: Rule of Azyr(Improved)Tier: 3Activa
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Page 116 and 117: Chapter 5The Stigma ofCorruptionThi
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face displaying a f. The Dirach may
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Abilities:• Menacing: This charac
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Chapter 9AdventuringPartyMost Warha
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tion of any ability increases the o
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Tier Henchmen Lieutenant Specialist
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Finally, if you see that players ar
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30+ Renown• True legends, urgentl
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berth. It is said that a great elm
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0-4 Renown• All hands needed: the
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of her wizard brother, the child wa
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Chapter 10Grim World ofPerilous Adv
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be the discovery of some important
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Appendix 1The Circle
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