Olympia: The Age of Gods PBEM (May 4 1999)
No profit grows where is no pleasure taken; In brief, sir, study what you most affect. William Shakespeare
Skills represent knowledge that Olympian nobles may know. Shipbuilding, thievery, kidnaping, training soldiers, castle building, mixing potions, and forging magical artifacts are just a few of the possible actions which skills allow a noble to perform.
Skills are organized into categories. Before a noble can learn any of the skills in a category he must first learn the category skill. The category skills are:
num name time to learn --- ---- ------------- 120 Shipcraft one week 121 Combat one week 122 Stealth two weeks 124 Persuasion two weeks 125 Construction one week 126 Alchemy two weeks 128 Forestry one week 129 Mining one week 130 Trading one week 131 Ranger one week
There are also six schools of magic and eight religions. For more details on learning and casting magical spells, see Magical Arts. For more details on religion skills, see Religion.
Each skill has a lore sheet describing background information about the
skill and how it may be used. Most skills are invoked with the
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' order. The skill lore sheets will give
specific information about arguments to use
skilluse
and and requirements
or limitations for using the skill. The skill lore sheets for all
Olympia skills may be found in Appendix - Skill Dictionary.
To begin study of a skill requires the following:
The following sections describe the process of learning new skills in more detail.