Fuzion Skills

Acrobatics

The ability to perform flips, jumps, and rolls like a circus acrobat. You can also jump and flip over an obstacle, landing on your feet, ready to fight.

Acting

The ability to act; to assume a role or character. Someone who is skilled in this can fake moods or emotions, or hide his true identity.

Animal Handler

The skills of animal handling, training, and care as applicable.

Athletics

Basic Athletics skills; flipping, leaping, escaping, throwing, swimming.

Boating

The ability to handle boats -- sailboats, motorboats, ocean liners, etc.

Bribery

A character with this skill knows when to bribe someone, how to approach him, and how much to offer.

Bugging

The ability to properly implant and operate listening, visual, or other sensing devices ("bugs.")

Bureaucratics

You know how to deal with bureaucrats, cut out red tape, who to talk to, how to reach them, and how to extract information from bureaucracies.

Business

Knowledge of basic business practices, laws of supply and demand, employee management, accounting, procurement, sales, marketing.

Climbing

Ability to climb unusually difficult walls, trees, and buildings, as long as there are handholds. The basic climbing speed is 2 m per phase.

Computer Operation

The ability to operate computers -- to run programs and perform basic operations.

Computer Programming

The ability to write computer programs, debug problems, and install software.

Concealment

You can hide things and find things that other people have hidden - like important papers, weapons, jewels, artifacts, drugs, and so forth.

Concentration

The abilities of focus and mental control. This would encompass feats of memory, recall, physiological control, and Mental Powers.

Conspiracy

Knowledge of how to influence individuals and organizations secretly, and how to plan and orchestrate such plans.

Contortionist

The ability to manipulate your body to get out of ropes and similar bonds. You may also contort your body to fit into generally inaccessible places or spaces.

Conversation

This ability allows you to extract information from people with careful conversation. The use of this skill takes time, and if the roll is missed, the subject realizes he is being pumped for information.

Criminology

You know how to look for clues, dust for fingerprints, examine evidence, do ballistic tests, examine records, search through files, and so on.

Cryptography

The ability to solve simple ciphers and encrypt or decode messages.

Deduction

This is the art of taking several facts and leaping to an inobvious conclusion.

Demolitions

The ability to properly use, handle, set, and defuse explosives.

Disguise

The ability to change a character’s appearance through makeup, costumes, body language, and facial expression.

Driving

Driving cars, motorcycles, jeeps, trucks, tanks, hovercraft, and other ground vehicles. Generally, this skill must be purchased for one class of vehicles.

Education

General knowledge, such as math, history, science, trivia, or current events.

Electronics

The ability to identify, understand, repair, and rewire electronic devices.

Espionage

Gathering and assessing intelligence and orchestrating spy operations.

Basic skill at getting out of the way of someone who is trying to hit you.

Expert

Any one field of knowledge: stamps, gardening, military history, anime trivia, and so forth. This can be a hobby, or an in-depth knowledge of a specific field or area.

First Aid

This skill enables the character to stop bleeding, repair damage, and generally keep someone alive.

Forensic Medicine

The ability to perform autopsies on corpses.

Forgery

The ability to create false documents, identification, currency, and so forth.

Gambling

The ability to win gambling games that require some skill, such as blackjack, poker, and more exotic games. A character may also use this skill to cheat.

Firing vehicle-mounted weapons, ship-mounted weapons, and artillery.

This skill allows a character to break computer security, avoid being traced through a network, and break into secure data.

Basic skill at fighting with your hands and other body parts.

Use of military weapons such as RPGs, mortars, rockets, missiles, etc.

Interrogation

The ability to extract information from people.

Languages

Must specify one particular language group (or dialect, computer code, type of sign language or hand signals). Must specify primary language in the family; all others in that group are at 1/2 of primary.

Leadership

The skill of leading and convincing people to follow you.

Lip Reading

This skill enables the character to read someone’s lips in order to tell what he is saying. The character must be able to see his target’s mouth clearly.

Local Expert

Knowledge of an area; who’s who, where things are, general customs, schedules, and peculiarities of the environment.

Lockpicking

This skill allows the character to open key, combination, electronic, and magnetic locks.

Skills of using personal projectile weapons; guns, SMGs, rifles, etc.

Mechanics

Skill with mechanical devices and the knowledge of how to repair, replace, and build them.

Using different types of melee weapons, such as knives, clubs, axes, swords, spears, etc.

Mimicry

The ability to perfectly imitate someone else’s voice.

Navigation

Knowing how to take sightings, use maps and charts, plot courses, work from wind, weather, and other guides.

Oratory

The ability to speak to an audience and to deliver a convincing presentation.

Perception

The skill of observation, perception and spotting hidden things (like clues), detecting lies and emotions.

Performance

The skills of acting, some stagecraft, singing and musicianship.

Persuasion

The ability to convince, persuade, or influence individuals.

Physician

This skill enables the character to diagnose illnesses, analyze medical tests and prescribe drugs.

Pilot

Flying prop aircraft, jets, spacecraft, grav vehicles, etc. A specific class of vehicle must be chosen for this skill.

Professional

The ability to perform a certain profession (such as artist, actor, doctor, hockey player, scientist, taxi driving, etc.) Obviously, certain other skills will greatly enhance the character’s ability to practice his profession.

Research

Skills in using libraries, databases, records, as well as uncovering information from obscure or uncommon sources.

Riding

This skill enables a character to ride a living creature under difficult circumstances. The type of animal (usually horse) must be specified when this skill is purchased.

Science

Knowledge of lab techniques, how to design experiments, how to write scientific papers, test hypotheses, etc. for your appropriate field of science.

Security Systems

The ability to recognize and evade various types of alarms and traps. The character also knows how to set up alarms and traps, given the proper time and equipment.

Seduction

The ability to gain others’ trust by offering companionship or favors.

Shadowing

The ability to subtly follow someone. Also the ability to spot and lose a tail.

Singing

The skill of using your voice for performance and entertainment.

Sleight of Hand

The ability to palm items, fool the eye, perform magic tricks, etc.

Stealth

The ability to hide in shadows, move silently or avoid detection in combat situations.

Streetwise

This skill gives the character knowledge of the seamy side of civilization: he knows how to find the black market, talk to thugs, gain information, and so on.

Surgery

The ability to perform surgical operations on people.

Surveillance

The ability to set up a static surveillance of a subject without having it detected.

Survival

This skill enables the character to live off the land, find food and water, identify dangerous plants and animals, and so on.

Systems Ops

This skill allows the character to operate sensing and communications devices.

Tactics

The ability to manage a large-scale battle effectively and efficiently. A character with this skill usually knows what must be done to direct a battle.

Teaching

The ability to impart information or skills to other.

Tracking

The ability to follow a trail by observing tracks, marks, broken twigs, and so forth.

Trading

The ability to strike a good bargain with a merchant or customer.

Ventriloquist

The character can make his voice sound as if it’s coming from somewhere other than himself.

Weaponsmith

The character knows how to build, maintain and repair weapons of various types. The class of weapon (muscle-powered, firearms, energy weapons, other) must be specified when this skill is purchased.

Zero-G

The ability to operate in zero gravity