Skills & Abilities Flashcards
Athletics is a [ ] check
Strength
A skill
A skill is a specific aspect of an ability score, and an individuals’ proficiency in a skill demonstrates a focus on that aspect
Strength checks
Athletics
Dexterity checks
Acrobatics, Sleight of hand, stealth
Intelligence checks
Arcana, history, investigation, nature, religion
Wisdom checks
Animal handling, insight, medicine, perception, survival
Charisma skill checks
Deception, intimidation, performance, persuasion
Strength
Strength measures bodily power, athletic training, and the extent to which you can exert raw physical force
Athletics skill check
A strength (athletics) check covers difficult situations encountered while, climbing, jumping, or swimming.
Dexterity
Dexterity measures agility, reflexes, and balance.
A dexterity check
A dexterity check can model any attempt to move nimbly, quietly, or to keep from falling on tricky footing.
Acrobatics skill check
A dexterity (acrobatics) check covers your attempt to stay on your feet in a tricky situation, such as balancing on, running across, or staying upright on difficult - moving, narrow, etc. terrain
Sleight of hand skill check
A dexterity (sleight of hand) check covers any attempt of an act of legerdemain or manual trickery, such as planting or lifting something to or from someone’s pocket.
Stealth skill check
A dexterity (stealth) check is made when you attempt to conceal yourself, slink past, or sneak up on someone without being seen or heard
Intelligence
Intelligence measures mental acuity, accuracy of recall, and the ability to reason
History skill checks
An intelligence history skill check covers your ability to recall lore about historical events, legends, ancient kingdoms, past disputes, recent wars, and lost civilisations.
Arcana skill check
An intelligence (arcana) skill check covers your ability to recall lore about spells, magic, eldritch symbols, magical traditions, planes of existence, and the inhabitants of those planes
Investigation skill checks
A intelligence (investigation) check covers when you look around for clues and make deductions based on those clues.
Nature skill checks
An intelligence (nature) skill check measures your ability to recall lore about terrain, plants, animals, the weather, and natural cycles.
Religion skill check
An intelligence (religion) skill check measures your ability to recall lore about deities, rites, prayers, religious hierarchies, holy symbols, and practices of secret cults.
Wisdom
Wisdom reflects your ability to attune yourself with the world around you and represents perceptiveness and intuition.
What does a wisdom check cover?
A wisdom ability check covers perception and intuition. Your ability to read body language, understand feelings, notice things about the environment, or care for an injured person.
Animal handling skill check
A wisdom (Animal handling) skill check measures your ability to control and intuit the feelings or behaviours of an animal, or when attempting a risky maneuver
Insight skill check
A wisdom (insight) skill check measures your ability to correctly determine the intentions of a creature, such as detecting a lie, or predicting someone’s next move.
Clues are drawn from body language, speech habits, and mannerisms
Medicine skill check
A wisdom (medicine) skill check covers when you are trying to stabilise a dying companion or diagnose an illness
Perception skill check
Your wisdom (perception) skill check lets you spot, hear, or detect the presence of something. It measures your awareness of your surroundings and keenness of your senses.
Survival skill check
A wisdom (survival) check is done to measure your ability to use survival skills, such as following tracks, hunting, identifying signs of wildlife, predict the weather, avoid natural (wilderness) hazards
Charisma
Charisma represents your ability to use your influential personality traits, such as confidence, charm, dominance, and eloquence, to influence or entertain others.
When is a charisma check made?
A charisma check will be made when trying to influence or entertain others, or navigate a tricky social situation.
Deception skill check
A charisma (deception) check determines whether you can convincingly hide the truth, either verbally, or through actions. Including misleading others through ambiguity to telling outright lies.
Intimidation check
A charisma (intimidation) check is made when you attempt to influence someone through threats, hostile actions, and physical violence
Performance skill check
A charisma (performance) skill check determines how well you can delight an audience with entertainment, such as music, dance, acting, storytelling, etc.
Persuasion skill check
A charisma (persuasion) check is made when you attempt to influence someone with tact, social graces, or good nature.
What is does an ability check do?
Tests a character’s or monster’s innate talent and training in an effort to overcome a challenge.
What is a saving throw?
A saving throw represents an attempt to resist a threat. Such as a spell, poison, disease, trap, or similar threat/
Opposed check
An opposed check is a skill check where the DC is decided by another creature’s dice roll
What breaks concentration?
- Casting another spell that requires concentration.
- Taking damage. Make a constitution saving throw to see if you keep concentration. The DC is 10 or half the damage you take. Whichever is higher.
- Being incapacitated or killed.
- Environmental factors decided by the DM. Make a constitution saving throw to see if you keep concentration.
