Proficiencies

Skill Proficiencies

Proficiency in Skills can be achieved with class features, background features, and racial features. When proficient in a skill, a creature rolls 1 additional Volatility Die when making a D20 Test with that specific Skill.

Knacks

A character may also be further experienced in an activity more specific than one of the 24 Skills. These are represented by Knacks, and allow players to add an additional Volatility Die for each Knack that is applicable to the current D20 Test. Knacks are unique subcategories of skills or subjects that a character specializes in. There is not a defined list of available Knacks in Sunder, but some topics may include: acrobatics, Draconian history, horseback riding, or woodcarving.

Naming a Knack is an important part of its application. Knack titles are intended to be idiomatic

If a Test has more than one Knack pertinent to its goal (e.g. determining the original purpose of a wood-carved statue from the Gnosichron era), then the player adds a Volatility Die to their Volatility Pool per Knack applicable to the Test.

Domains

A third kind of proficiency involves Domains, which are broad subjects that define an adventurer's natural affinities towards certain actions or topics. There are thirteen domains, each corresponding to a deity of the pantheon:

• Spark - The Breath

  Places of art, inspiration, ideation

• Flow - The Ebb

  Places in flux, cycles, healing, water

• Scorch - The Hunger

  Desolate, wasteland, fire

• Still - The Lurking

  Hunting, fear, territory

• Warp - The Phantom

  Mysticism, warped landscape, shadow

• Thread - The Weaver

  Study, knowledge, arcana

• Root - The Shade

  Earth, thriving nature, growth, development

• Gleam - The Glint

  Desire, money, temptation, fey

• Glare - The Light

  Illusion, deception, truth, exposure

• Crossing - The Migrant

  Liminal spaces, wind, travel, havens

• Tear - The Urge

  Scarred terrain, wrath, war

• Remnant - The Crownless

  Ruins, abandoned locations, forgotten knowledge

• Bastion - The Lord

  Justice, law, court, ordinance