Feb 13
2009

 

Name Description
Accounting Cash Flow and analysis.  Culture and tech levels denote level of sophistication.
Advertising How to present material in a way that makes people want it.
Bureaucracy Red tape, how to do it, how to overcome it.  Related to bribery, but legal.
Business and Finance How to be a wheeler dealer.  Specialising at level 3 gives a +3 bonus.
Calligraphy The art of writing as pertaining to the artistic rendition of lettering for fun or profit.  Really Mediaeval/fantasy settings should use this for writing.  See also Literacy, which would be required in a Mediaeval setting.
Forgery How to fake official documents and counterfeit money.
Infiltration Inculcating yourself into an hostile environment, (say a group of girls at an American High School, or into a different culture), in such a way that you are accepted as a native.
Interrogation How to beat it out of them physically or psychologically.
Intrigue How to play the game.  The dark side of politics.
Journalism Reportage, and general skills of a journalist.  Includes some skill with the things a journalist would be good at.  May be Specialised, second level specialising attracts a bonus of +3.
Law How to get shot by the revolutionaries.
Leadership How to get people to do what you tell them.
Library Science Related to research, how to keep and maintain books and records of books.
Merchant Knowing how to buy and sell things effectively.  Second level specialising gives a +3 Bonus.
Negotiate Haggle and possibly lower the price when buying something.  It is also the ability to persuade someone that what you’re saying is the truth when it is not, i.e., to con someone.  This skill does not include using money, which is part of the bribery skill.
Radio Anyone can operate a radio receiver for general broadcasts without this development, even under a certain amount of duress.  This Development is related to the operation, and sometimes building of radio transceivers and related equipment.  Possible Specialises are Basic; Deep Space; Satellite; Scramblers.  There are other Specialises we have not thought of here.
Security How to make yourself or things secure, specify.
Surveillance Systems Must be Specialised.  Typically how to use them or install them.
Video How to edit, typically.  Must be Specialised.