Skills

A list of the some of the available skills in Onward Mud. Some skills are RPP restricted, as indicated with *.

If you have no RPP but there is a skill that would match your character concept that is listed here and limited by RPP requirements, please contact Nauth at nauth@onwardmud.com to discuss your concept.

Not all skills in the game are listed.

Craft Based Skills

All craft based skills allow for custom crafts / items at mastery.

• *Apothecary (Alchemy)
• *Astronomy
• Artistry
  • unlocks Painting
  • unlocks Sculpting
  • unlocks Clayworking
• Aquatic Harvesting
• Baking
• Armorcrafting
• Blacksmithing
• Brewing
• Bowmaking
• Chandlery
• Cookery
• Dye craft
• Farming
• Fletcher
• Fishing
• *Fortune Telling
• Gambling
• Gardening
• Glassworking
• Herbalism
• Husbandry
• Hunting
• Instrumentmaking
• Jewelrycraftingunlocks Gemcraft
• Leatherworking
• Logging
• Mining
• Perfumery
• *Poisoncraft
• Shieldcrafting
• Tailoring
• Taxidermy
• Taming
• Tanning
• Textilecraft
  • unlocks Weaving
• Toolcraft
  • unlocks *Tinkering
  • unlocks Toy Making
• Weaponcrafting
• Woodcraft
  • Shipbuilding

Combat Based Skills

Exploitation Skills

Blindside	Dexterity
Disarm	Greatest of Dexterity or Strength
Dirty Tricks	Dexterity (Unsportsmanlike)
Stagger	Greatest of Dexterity / Strength
Feint	Agility
Trip	Agility

Offensive Skills

Backstab	Agility (Unsportsmanlike)
Kick	Greatest of Agility or Strength
Rend	Strength
Shield Bash	Strength
Cripple	Strength
Slipknife	Dexterity (Unsportsmanlike)

Defensive Skills

Shield Wall	Strength (Stance)
Quickguard	Dexterity (stance)
Discipline	Willpower
Evasion	Agility
Ward	Strength

Weapon Skills

• Dual-Wield
• Weapon and Ranged Weapon Skills

Primary stats primarily governs skillcap. If you have a low secondary attribute you can still master a weapon provided your primary stat is high enough. Secondary stat influences exist simply to give people a boost towards the skill cap who do not have a very high primary stat but a high secondary stat. If you have a high primary stat but a mediocre secondary stat, this will not detract from your ability to master a weapon skill, it will only slow your learning progress a little. If you have a high secondary stat but a low primary stat you are unlikely to master a related weapon skill but can still become competent in it. Skill cap is primarily determined by the primary stat.

Weapon Skills	Progress Speed determined by	Skill Cap determined by
Light Pierce Weapons	DEX	DEX (primary) AGI (lesser degree)
Light Edge Weapons	DEX	DEX (primary) AGI (lesser degree)
Light Blunt Weapons	DEX	DEX (primary) AGI (lesser degree)
Medium Pierce Weapons	STR + DEX	DEX (primary) AGI (lesser degree
Medium Blunt Weapons	STR + DEX	STR
Medium Edge Weapons	STR + DEX	DEX (primary) AGI OR DEX (lesser degree)
Heavy Pierce Weapons	DEX + STR	STR (primary) AGI (lesser degree)
Heavy Edge Weapons	STR	STR (primary) Dex (lesser degree)
Heavy Blunt Weapons	STR + DEX	STR
Shortbow	DEX	DEX
Longbow	DEX + STR	DEX (primary) STR (lesser degree)
Crossbow	DEX + AGI	DEX (primary) Agi (lesser degree)

Utility Based Skills

• Barter
• Healing
• Hide
• Riding
• *Literacy
  • Lorecraft
• Sailing
• Seafaring
• Steal
• Sneak
• Skin
• Tracking
• Pathfinding
• Picklock
• *Poisoning
• Wilderness Survival

Innate Skills

• Climb (innate skill)
• Listen (innate skill)
• Scan (innate skill)
• Search (innate skill)
• Gather (innate skill)
• Swim (innate skill)
• Brawling (innate skill)
• Block - Shield Use (innate skill)

Innate abilities:

• Rescue
• Flee
• Guard