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NWP Proficiencies
The skills listed below are based off PC cost points. To convert to the slot methodology simply divide the cost points by two (2).

OPTIONS:
"Improvement by level advancement."
Initial gaining of any NWP skill does NOT infer instant subject matter expertise on the recipient, and incurs a -6 penalty (modified by any pertinent penalty/bonuses in the skill description) at the level of acquisition. The penalty is automatically reduced because of usage while level gaining, and follows an arithmetically cumulative (+1+2+3+4+5) progression of levels after initial acquisition of the skill (Acquisition Level: 1 level after = -5, 3 levels after = -4, 6 levels after = -3, 10 levels after = -2, 15 levels after -1, etc.). Added slot devotions to a skill half the penalty progression, starting the level progression process over once more.

"Learning on the Fly."
When making a nonweapon proficiency check, any attempt that succeeds with a roll of "1" permanently increases that particular ability by one point, as the character gained new insight into the skill during its application.

Proficiency Descriptions

1. Administration
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
Many temples own substantial amounts of land and property, wielding power over vast areas. Priests who can manage these lands and turn a tidy profit in the name of the church are always in demand. A character with this proficiency is skilled in the management and accounting of enterprises ranging from the agriculture of an entire province to the vineyards of a single small monastery. He knows how to account for money, plan work, and supervise the collection of taxes or the sale of goods.

2. Agriculture
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
This skill includes automatic success at planting, harvesting, storing crops, using an existing irrigation system, tending animals, and butchering. Tasks that require proficiency checks include designing or making an irrigation system, and weed and pest control. The animal empathy and climate sense traits each provide +2 bonuses to relevant agriculture proficiency checks.

3. Alchemy
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Wizard
Cost: 5
Ability: Intelligence/Reason
A wizard with this skill is not necessarily an alchemist or a specialist in the school of alchemy, but he is well-versed in the physical aspects of magical research and the properties of various chemicals, reagents, and substances. If the character has access to a decent laboratory, he can use his knowledge to identify unknown elements or compounds, create small doses of acids, incendiaries, or pyrotechnical substances, or (if he is 9th level or higher) brew potions. Refer to Chapter 5 of Players Options: Spells & Magic for information on the size, cost, and equipment of an alchemical laboratory. Naturally, a wizard may be able to defray some of the costs by sharing his facilities or striking some kind of deal with a local wizard's guild; the DM can come up with the details.
Identifying substances or samples of unknown material requires 1 to 4 days and a successful proficiency check. Simple materials, such as powdered metals or ores, provide the alchemist with a +1 to +4 bonus on his check, at the DM's discretion. Rare, complex, or damaged or incomplete samples might impose a -1 to -4 penalty.
Creating dangerous substances such as acids or burning powders takes 1d3 days and 20-50 gp or (1d4+1) x 10 per vial, or 2-5 days and 50-100 gp or (1d6+4) x 10 per flask. The alchemist must pass a proficiency check in order to successfully manufacture the substance; failing the check with a natural roll of 20 results in an explosion or other mishap that exposes the character to the effects of his work and damages the laboratory for 10%-60% or 1d6 x 10% of its construction value.
Acid inflicts 1d3 points of damage per vial, or 2d4 points of damage per flask, and continues to injure the victim the next round; the vial inflicts 1 point of damage in the second round, and the flask causes 1d3 points of damage. In addition, the flask is large enough to splash creatures near the target; see Grenadelike Missiles in the DMG. Acid can also burn out a lock or clasp, forcing an item saving throw.
Incendiaries ignite when exposed to air. A flask of incendiary liquid inflicts damage as per burning oil (2d6 points in the first round and 1d6 in the second.) Again, refer to the DMG. Incendiary powders or liquids can easily start fires if used on buildings, dry brush, or other such surfaces.
Pyrotechnic materials resemble incendiaries, but create clouds of billowing smoke; a vial creates a cloud of smoke 5 feet high by 5 feet wide by 5 feet deep, obscuring vision; a flask creates a cloud of smoke 10 feet high by 10 feet wide by 10 feet deep. The clouds persist for 1d3 rounds, depending on the wind and other conditions.
Alchemy is an expensive hobby, to say the least, and it can be a dangerous one as well. If a player character is abusing this proficiency (i.e., walking into a dungeon with 10 flasks of acid in his pack), the DM can require item saving throws for all those beakers anytime the character slips, falls, or is struck by an opponent.

4. Alms
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 3
Ability: Charisma/Appearance
Some orders of priests rely on the charity of others for their support and livelihood. A character with this proficiency is able to find food, shelter, and clothing in return for the benefit of his wisdom and a blessing or two for his hosts. The quality of the charity the priest finds may vary widely, depending on the wealth of his prospective hosts, their piety and their recognition of his deity, and the way the priest presents himself. Generally, if there's shelter to be had, the priest can make use of it, but obtaining food or clothing for his companions may require a nonweapon proficiency check at the DM's discretion.

5. Anatomy
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Wizard
Cost: 4
Ability: Intelligence/Reason
This proficiency reflects a character's detailed knowledge of the structure and arrangement of the human body, including the location and function of bones, muscles, organs, and other soft tissues. This skill has two distinct uses for a wizard; first of all, knowledge of anatomy provides the character with a +2 bonus on any healing proficiency checks he attempts. Secondly, the wizard can use this skill to repair corpses that have been badly damaged. With a successful proficiency check, the wizard can strengthen and reinforce a body, making it more suitable for animation as a mindless undead. This provides a hit point bonus of +1 per die for skeletal remains, or a bonus of +2 hp per die for a creature to be animated as a zombie.

6. Ancient History
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Priest, Rogue, Wizard
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Knowledge
Characters with this proficiency are familiar with the legends, rulers, and writings of a specific historical period in the campaign world. They will recognize, without a proficiency check, items, scrolls, artwork, etc. of that period. They will know the main historical figures, such as kings and powerful villains, and the major circumstances of those individuals' lives and deaths. With a successful proficiency check they will recall lesser figures, such as lords, knights, and heroes, and recall legendary tales, important sigils, and perhaps be able to decipher a small bit of text, symbols, or hieroglyphics. The obscure knowledge trait provides a +3 to this character's proficiency rating.

7. Ancient Languages
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Priest, Wizard
Cost: 4
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
Adventurers with this proficiency are familiar with at least one ancient language-i.e. they have the reading/writing proficiency with the chosen languages. If confronted with an example of a historically-related language, they can decipher about a paragraph of that tongue with a successful proficiency check. For each character point spent on this proficiency (after initially acquiring it) add one additional ancient language to the list of languages a character knows fluently. The precise memory trait provides a +2 to this proficiency rating.

8. Animal Handling
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Willpower
This proficiency allows characters to automatically steer carts, plow horses, etc. With a successful proficiency check, they can soothe domesticated animals and beasts of burden which become agitated or frightened. The characters receive a +1 bonus to proficiency checks made with any of the animal-riding proficiencies, and they receive a +2 bonus to their proficiency rating if they have the animal empathy trait.

9. Animal Lore
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge, Wisdom/Intuition
Adventurers with animal lore have a store of knowledge about animal behavior, and without any proficiency check will know the basic feeding and social habits (i.e. herding, nesting, etc.) of animals with which they have past experience.
With a proficiency check, a character can determine whether an observed animal is intending to attack or to flee, or predict that animals will come along a trail at a certain time of day. This character gets a +2 bonus to checks made using the set snares proficiency.
The character can imitate the calls of wild animals (except for very large creatures). A successful check means that the imitation is virtually perfect, and even fools animals of the same type. A failed check might fool other characters, but will not deceive the animals.

10. Animal Training
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 4
Ability: Wisdom/Willpower, Charisma/Leadership
When players choose this proficiency, they must declare what type of creature their characters will learn to train. Suggestions include dogs, falcons, parrots, horses, pigeons, elephants, and ferrets. More exotic animals can be chosen at the DM's option. Monsters with animal intelligence are another possibility, though they can be difficult to control-in effect, requiring more frequent proficiency checks.
Training of an animal requires a rather lengthy period of time-a matter of weeks, at least, for even the most basic tasks. A character who spends this amount of time will succeed at the training (no check necessary). Such tasks include dogs being trained to stay, come when summoned, and guard a specific location; pigeons returning to the roost; falcons hunting and killing game; and horses bearing saddles and obeying simple riding commands.
More elaborate tasks also take time to teach, and these require proficiency checks: dogs patrolling a circuit, or retrieving specific objects; and horses performing the maneuvers of a knightly charger are examples.
A character with the animal empathy trait gains a +1 bonus to this proficiency rating.

11. Appraising
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Rogue
Cost: 2
Ability: Intelligence/Reason, Wisdom/Intuition
This skill allows the character to make generally accurate (+ or -10%) assessments of common objects, including items made of precious metals and gemstones. The character can also assess, to + or -25%, the value of objects of art, tapestries, furniture, weapons, etc.-provided a variety of these items are present in the game world. These assessments require no proficiency checks, and the DM can roll (d20 or d100) to determine the accuracy of the appraisal.
A character who passes a proficiency check will be able to identify a forgery of a valuable object, to make a very accurate assessment of the value of a common item (within 5%), or to make a general assessment of the worth of an uncommon item, including artifacts. The DM may wish to roll this check, and on a roll of 20 the character makes a wildly inaccurate assessment.

12. Arcanology
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Wizard
Cost: 4
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
The study of the history and development of magic is termed arcanology. A wizard with expertise in this field is familiar with the works of past wizards. If there was a source of powerful magic in the campaign's past-for example, Netheril or Myth Drannor in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting-the arcanologist has a good idea of who the great mages were and what they were able to accomplish. Special magical items, spells, or forms of magic wielded by these ancient sorcerers are familiar to the arcanologist. With a successful proficiency check, the arcanologist can identify the general purpose and function of an ancient magical item; the DM may apply a penalty of -1 to -4 if the item comes from a region outside the arcanologist's normal studies, or is especially rare or obscure. Note that this ability doesn't help a wizard to identify items manufactured by the "modern" school or tradition of magic, whatever that may be.

13. Armourer
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 5
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge, Strength/Muscle
A character with this proficiency can make the types of armour typically available in the campaign world. The armourer requires the proper raw materials (plate metal, tough leather, etc.) and enough time to do the job properly. Time ranges from about two weeks for a shield to 20 weeks for a suit of plate mail armor. No proficiency check is required generally, though if the armourer tries to rush the job or work with less than adequate materials a proficiency check should be rolled to determine if the character is successful.
The armourer can also make field repairs to armour that has been damaged through use. These repairs always require proficiency checks, and if the check fails the armour or shield is lost.

14. Astrology
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Priest, Wizard
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Knowledge
This character has a general understanding of the movement of celestial bodies, and the influence of that movement upon the beings of the campaign world. The astrologer can identify numerous constellations, and knows many of the legends behind their naming. The character can make limited predictions for the future, always in vague terms-whether these are accurate is up to the DM. A character with this proficiency gains +2 on all checks made using the navigation proficiency, providing the stars can be seen. A character with the trait of empathy gains a +1 bonus to the astrology proficiency rating.

15. Astronomy
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Wizard
Cost: 2
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
A character proficient in this skill has a detailed knowledge of the relative movement of stars, moons, and planets. The character can predict with complete accuracy the arrival of eclipses, comets, and other cosmic phenomena (evening and morning stars, full moons, etc.) The astronomer can identify numerous stars and constellations, and gains a +3 bonus to all checks made using the navigation proficiency, providing that the stars can be seen.

16. Blacksmithing
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 4
Ability: Strength/Muscle, Intelligence/Knowledge
A character with the blacksmithing proficiency can handle a forge, bellows, hammer and tongs, to create tools and other objects out of iron. The character cannot make weapons or armour, but can make-without a proficiency check-simple items such as horseshoes, nails, brackets and buckles. By making a successful proficiency check, the character can create intricate objects such as wire cages and locks. A blacksmith can make an iron hoop for a wheel that has been made by a carpenter; this combination of proficiencies is required for a strong wheel.

17. Blind-fighting
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 4
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Dexterity/Balance
This allows characters to ignore many of the problems inherent in fighting without being able to see. In total darkness, the character suffers -2 (not -4) to attack rolls, and suffers no penalties to AC versus melee attacks. In starlight or moonlight, the character suffers only a -1 penalty to attack rolls.
When moving in darkness, the character is allowed to make a proficiency check at the beginning of a round; success means no movement penalties are assessed because of the darkness, while failure means the normal penalty applies.
When in combat with an invisible creature, the character with blind-fighting proficiency suffers only a -2 to attack rolls, but gains no benefit toward discovering the creature.

18. Boat Piloting
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Strength/Muscle, Intelligence/Reason
This proficiency is useful for negotiating challenging waters with a rowboat, canoe, or small dory. When shooting a rapids, trying to stay afloat in a storm, or trying to row upstream against a strong current, the character will succeed without a proficiency check-unless the water conditions are very extreme. In this case, the DM will require an appropriately modified roll; a successful roll means that the character negotiates the challenge and no further checks are necessary (until the next stretch of rapids, etc.). Failure does not necessarily mean that the boat sinks, but it gets swept away by the current, or turned about, or moderately swamped-with everything and everyone inside getting wet. If the rough water continues, the character must make additional proficiency checks (every 1-6 rounds). The character's proficiency rating suffers a -1 modifier for each failed check, indicating the difficulty of steering a boat that is slowly filling with water.
The character also knows the basics of sailing, and can effectively manoeuvre a single-masted sailboat. As above, challenges will require proficiency checks, with failed checks leading to increasingly dire straits.

19. Bookbinding
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Wizard, Priest
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge, Dexterity/Aim
A character with this skill is familiar with the process of assembling a book. Bookbinding is a demanding task; the pages must be glued or sewn to a common backing of some kind, protected by various kinds of varnishes or treatments, and then fastened to a strong and durable cover. Additional chemicals or compounds to ward off mildew and deter moths and bookworms are a necessary precaution.
Bookbinding is especially helpful for a wizard assembling a spell book. Normally, a wizard must pay a bookbinder 50 gp per page for a standard spell book, or 100 gp per page for a traveling spell book-see Chapter 7 of the DMG. A wizard who does this work himself reduces these costs by 50%, although the process takes at least two weeks, plus one day per five pages. If the character passes a proficiency check, his spell book gains a +2 bonus to item saving throws due to the quality and craftsmanship of the work. In addition, the wizard must succeed in a proficiency check if he is dealing with unusual or unsuitable materials, such as metal sheets for pages or dragon scales for a cover.

20. Bowyer/Fletcher
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 5
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge, Dexterity/Aim
This character can make bows and arrows (but not arrowheads) of the types available in the campaign world. Given appropriate materials, the character can successfully make a bow or 2-12 arrows in a day. (Note that finding the right branch for the bow, or the proper shafts and feathers for the arrows might take several days of searching!)
Weaponsmiths are required to make good steel arrowheads. If none are available, the character can fire harden the wooden tips of his arrows, but these weapons suffer a -1 penalty on all damage rolls, and any arrow that misses its target is 50% likely to be broken.

21. Brewing
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
This category includes the brewing of malt beverages, the making of wine, and the distilling of stronger drink. A character can perform all the basic functions of the brewer's art without requiring a proficiency check. If the brewer chooses to make the check, failure means that a batch has been wasted, but success means that a particularly fine vintage has been created.

22. Bureaucracy
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 5
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge, Charisma/Appearance
This proficiency encompasses a working knowledge of temple or government organization and protocol, and the skills necessary to navigate through bureaucracies. The character knows which officials to approach and when to approach them, where records are kept and how to gain access to them, and how to circumvent unfriendly or sluggish bureaucrats. Unless there are extenuating circumstances, the character can get permits or documents completed in half the normal time. In addition to these skills, the character can attempt to turn the system against someone else. With a successful proficiency check, the amount of time required to make a decision doubles-permits are misplaced or filled out incorrectly, or important documents are held up on the wrong desk. For example, a character could keep a shady wizard from gaining permission to build a tower in the town, or he might obstruct a thief's request for bond or parole.

23. Camouflage
Source: Players Option: Combat & Tactics
NWP Group: Warrior, Rogue
Cost: 4
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
Characters skilled in camouflage understand how to stay out of sight in natural surroundings. Unlike hiding in shadows, camouflage requires one of two things: good cover nearby or a lot of preparation. It's possible for a character to hide himself on a flat, rocky desert, but he'd need to have special clothes and time to ready a hiding spot. On the other hand, almost anyone can duck behind a tree on short notice.
If the character passes his camouflage check, he is considered to be effectively invisible as long as he doesn't move. He can avoid encounters if he chooses, or gain a -1 bonus on his chance to surprise someone who doesn't spot him. The character's check is modified as noted below: Ground Cover: -4 penalty if no vegetation is nearby;
Terrain: +1 bonus if terrain is rocky, hilly, or broken, +2 if very rocky;
Preparation Time: -2 if character has only one round of warning, -4 if character has no warning. Rangers and thieves gain a +40% to their chance to hide in shadows if they pass a camouflage check in conjunction with their attempt to hide in shadows.

24. Carpentry
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Strength/Stamina, Intelligence/Knowledge
This character knows the basics of working with wood and can create-with no check required-small structures, fences, platforms, cabinets, carts and wagons. The carpenter can make wooden wheels, but a blacksmith must form the iron rim or the wheel will have a very short life expectancy.
A carpenter might build a short footbridge, a wooden clock, or a dumbwaiter system-these tasks will require a proficiency check. Larger projects such as major bridges, boats, or catapults, require the aid of a character with the engineering proficiency.

25. Ceremony
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 2
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition
A priest with this proficiency is well-versed in the various rites, observances, and ceremonies of his temple. He is qualified to oversee normal worship or devotions, but conducting the rites in difficult or unusual situations may require a proficiency check. This proficiency also includes familiarity with ceremonies such as weddings, namings, and funerals, and the priest can perform these services appropriately.

26. Charioteering
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 4
Ability: Dexterity/Balance, Wisdom/Willpower
A character with this skill can move a chariot at its normal speed, and effectively drive it over a smooth, wide road. The proficient character requires no check to drive or steer the chariot, including traveling across relatively flat, open countryside, charging into battle, and performing the turns, stops, and starts that might be required on the battlefield.
By making a proficiency check, the character can guide the chariot through obstacles such as deep fords, steeply-climbing terrain, ditches, and rough or rocky ground. Also, with a successful check, the character can add 1/3 to a chariot's movement rate for the duration of a charge or a march. However, failure of this check means that the chariot moves at its normal rate, but that the horses fatigue in half the normal time. Characters with the animal empathy trait gain a +1 bonus to their ratings with this proficiency.
Note that certain obstacles are simply impassable to chariots, including walls, water too deep (or too muddy on the bottom) to ford, thick forests, and mountainous terrain.

27. Cobbling
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Dexterity/Aim, Intelligence/Knowledge
A character with this skill can makes shoes, boots, and sandals. No checks are normally required, but if the character attempts a field repair of damaged footwear, or tries to fashion shoes from wood or leather that has been scrounged up, a successful check is needed.

28. Concentration
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest, Wizard
Cost: 5
Ability: Wisdom/Willpower, Constitution/Fitness
A character with this talent has rigorously trained himself to ignore distractions of all kinds, deadening his mind to pain or sensation. This allows the character to ignore annoyances or disturbances that might otherwise interfere with the casting of a spell. In order to use this ability, the player must state that his character is concentrating when he begins to cast a spell. If the character is struck by an attack that causes 2 or less points of damage, he is permitted to attempt a proficiency check to ignore the distraction and continue to cast his spell (unless, of course, the damage is enough to render him unconscious.) The character can also try to ignore grappling or restraining attacks that cause no damage but suffers a -4 penalty to his check. Spells that incapacitate without damaging, such as hold person or command, still interrupt the caster if he fails his saving throw.
A character using this ability must focus on the casting of his spell to the exclusion of all other activity, even direct attacks. Any Dexterity adjustment to his Armor Class is lost, and in addition flank or side attacks are treated as rear attacks, with a +2 bonus to hit instead of a +1.
29. Cooking
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Reason
This character knows the basics of food preparation, and he can generally cook, bake, fry, and so forth without a proficiency check. Checks are required if the character attempts to prepare truly gourmet meals, or tries to make a palatable dinner out of unpalatable ingredients-grubs, roots, and bark, for example.

30. Courtly Intrigue
Source: Dragon 256
NWP Group: Rogue
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Knowledge
A character with this proficiency is well versed in the intricacies of court life and the affairs of nobility. The character knows all the gossip, has heard all the rumors, and has a good idea of who does what and to whom. The character does not know the accuracy of the information it is all hearsay. (If a character with this proficiency attempts to do something he shouldn't do in a court setting, the DM tells the player the faux pas his character is about to commit.) A proficiency check is required if a character wants to learn new information or uncover the latest rumor. Success means the character found out a few bits of information. Failure means either no information or wild rumors. Courtly Intrigue is especially useful when combined with the NWP Etiquette. A character with both proficiencies receives a +1 to the NWP scores of each.

31. Cryptography
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Rogue, Wizard
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Reason, Wisdom/Intuition
The character with this proficiency has some training and skill in deciphering hidden messages and codes. In its basic form, the character is allowed to make a proficiency check when confronted with a coded message. If successful, the DM can reveal a general overview of the secret missive.
This proficiency is more fun when used as an aid to role-playing. Ideally, the use of the cryptography proficiency requires a great deal of involvement from the player-and a certain amount of puzzle design by the DM-instead of simply passing a check and demanding that a coded message be explained by the DM.
Rather, a character with the cryptography proficiency should have the chance of recognizing a code concealed within a written or spoken message, or perhaps hidden by some other medium-an intricately woven tapestry or sculpted piece of heraldry, for example. The DM will usually roll this check secretly, announcing that the character observes something unusual.
If the character notices the encoded sigil, the DM should describe it in considerable detail-word for word, if it is a written message. The character can make an additional proficiency check during the course of the decoding; if successful, the DM can provide a significant clue-a name, place, or date that is mentioned, for example. The bulk of the decoding should still be performed by the player.

32. Dancing
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Dexterity/Balance, Charisma/Appearance
The character knows and can perform the moves of many types of dances, including some that involve precise and detailed steps. All dances common to the character's society will be familiar. Rare, archaic, or unusual dances will be known with a proficiency check. Also, characters who have had a chance to observe an unknown dance can perform it (-2 modifier, +1 for each time after the first that it is seen performed).
Truly spectacular dances-the kind that win character's campaign-wide acclaim-combine elements of dance proficiency with skills of tumbling, tightrope walking, and jumping.

33. Dark Sense
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: Rogue, Warrior
Cost: 4
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition
The character has an uncanny ability, if moving at half speed or less, to sense objects or empty space in complete darkness. This requires total concentration, and so is useless in combat. Using this ability, the character could navigate through a dark room, avoiding collisions with furniture and stopping before stepping into a gaping pit. The DM should require a roll whenever the character comes close to some-thing that could be sensed. Success means that the character is aware that his path is either blocked by an object or that there is no solid ground at his feet. Failures are obvious because of the resulting collision or plunge.

34. Deep Diving
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Dexterity/Balance, Constitution/Health
A character with this proficiency can add 10 feet per round to his speed of descent when diving into the water, or from the surface. Thus, a character with the deep diving proficiency can descend 30 feet per round, plus modifiers for encumbrance, running start, and height. Likewise, a character with the deep diving proficiency can surface at a rate of 30 feet (not 20 feet) per round.
This proficiency provides characters with the ability to hold their breath for 2/3 their Constitution scores in rounds, not the 1/3 allowed to most characters. Effects of exceeding the allotted time are the same, regardless of proficiency ratings.

35. Diplomacy
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Charisma/Leadership
This is the grand art of high diplomacy between states or organizations. A character skilled in diplomacy knows the correct procedures and unwritten rules of negotiations between states or large organizations. He is capable of discerning the true intent of the various declarations, statements, and gifts or exchanges that make up a diplomatic encounter, and he is able to take his own wishes and couch them in proper diplomatic terms. Normally, the character need only make proficiency checks if the negotiations are particularly delicate or difficult. However, if there is a specific goal or compromise the character is working towards, he may attempt a check to see if he can win the other side over to his point. Naturally, the DM can apply a modifier of -8 to +8 depending on what the diplomat's offer means for the parties involved. Requesting the surrender of a vastly superior enemy is next to impossible, unless the character can convince them that they stand to gain something of great value by giving up. In any event, the DM shouldn't use this ability as a substitute for good role-playing by the players.

36. Dirty Fighting
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: Rogue, Warrior
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
A character with this proficiency is familiar with a number of cheap shots and tricks that can be used in fighting. This proficiency should never be taken by anyone who must uphold any sort of moral code. A paladin, for example, would never resort to dirty fighting unless he wanted to lose favour with his deity. Whenever a player wants his character to use this ability he should state what his character is attempting to do, then make a proficiency check. Success means that the trick worked, and the character gains an extra attack in that round at +2 to hit and damage. Failure means that the move was noticed or anticipated, and the intended victim gains an extra attack in that round against the character, who enjoys no Dexterity bonus to his armour class for that attack only. After the first attempt, a cumulative -2 penalty should be applied to any further attempts made against the same opponent. For example, Krik the thief is fighting a city guard. He scoops up a handful of sand (rolls a successful proficiency check) and throws it in the guard's eyes. As the guard yells in pain and rubs his eyes, Krik gives him a nasty cut with his dagger. The fight continues, and Krik attempts to kick the guard in the shin. This time, the proficiency check is made with a -2 penalty; as the guard has grown wary of Krik's cheap shots. Krik misses (fails his check); as he recovers his footing, the guard smashes Kirk with his mace.

37. Disguise
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Rogue
Cost: 4
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Charisma/Leadership
Characters trained in this proficiency can conceal their appearance through makeup and costuming. If they seek simply to alter their appearance without concealing size, sex, or race-for example, to go out in a city without anyone discovering what they look like-they can succeed without a proficiency check.
If the task is more difficult-the character in disguise meets and talks with an acquaintance, for example-a successful proficiency check is required. Characters who try to alter the appearance of their sex, race, or size, must make successful proficiency checks with a -2 penalty for each category.
Characters who attempt to disguise themselves as specific persons must make proficiency checks when they encounter and speak with someone who knows the other individuals. All of these checks suffer an inherent -2 penalty.
Note that the talent of impersonation (see traits) can improve a character's success with the disguise proficiency.

38. Dowsing
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Wizard
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition
This is the skill of finding lost or hidden items by seeking a disturbance in the subtle natural energies that permeate the earth. A dowser is attuned to the invisible, intangible eddies and currents of the world around him; by careful and methodical searching, he can detect particular emanations or anomalies.
Dowsing has two general uses. First, the character can attempt to detect natural deposits or minerals in the ground, such as water, gold, or other ores. Secondly, the character can attempt to find a specific man-made item that has been lost or hidden, such as a friend's dagger, a buried treasure chest, or the entrance to a barrow mound. The search must be very precise-the dowser will have no luck if he sets out to find 'the most valuable thing in this field' or 'the nearest magical weapon,' but 'Aunt Claire's missing brooch' or 'the gold buried by the pirate Raserid' are suitable searches.
Unlike the spell locate object, the dowser isn't led or directed to the item he seeks; he has to actually pass within 10 feet of the item, or walk over the place where it is buried, and succeed in a proficiency check to detect the item. (The DM should keep this check hidden from the players so that he doesn't give away the location with a failed check.) Dowsing can take a long time; quartering the dirt floor of a cellar 20 square feet might take 1d3 turns, while checking a field or courtyard might take 1d3 hours. Searching an area larger than 100 square yards is impractical-the dowser gets tired of concentrating.
A dowser can detect items or substances within 100 feet of the surface, although very strong or powerful sources may be detected slightly deeper. The dowser can guess the approximate depth of what he's seeking within ±10% when he stumbles across it.

39. Endurance
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 2
Ability: None
A character with this proficiency can perform continual strenuous physical activity for twice as long as a normal character before becoming exhausted. If the character is ever required to make a Strength/Stamina check or a Constitution/Fitness check, the character can add his endurance score to his success number. This proficiency also adds 50% to the Fatigue base score, in effect making a Warriors hit dice of 1d10 become 1d15 for the purpose of calculating fatigue.

40. Engineering
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 4
Ability: Intelligence/Reason, Wisdom/Intuition
This proficiency is required for the design and construction of objects and installations of all sizes. Note that carpentry, stonemasonry, blacksmithing, or other proficiencies also might be necessary for the actual building. Characters can design and supervise the building of houses, boats, small bridges, palisades, and towers-of up to about 30 feet high without proficiency checks.
Characters with this skill can try to design large bridges, fortresses, ships, war machines, locks and dams, and other more complicated projects. Plans for these types of objects generally require at least a week-more if an exceptionally large project is being attempted. Complicated tasks require successful proficiency checks before a workable design can be made. If a check fails on a roll of less than 20, however, the engineer will be aware of the failure and can seek to create a new design-go back to the drawing board, so to speak. On a roll of 20, the design is flawed but the danger will not be discovered until after the object is built.

41. Epicure
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
This character is an expert in food and drink, and can tell (on a successful proficiency check) whether food has been prepared by a master chef, what ingredients were used, what yea r a specific wine was bottled, and what region it came from. If this character also has the cooking skill, then no proficiency check is required to prepare a masterful meal.

42. Etiquette
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Charisma/Appearance, Wisdom/Intuition
Characters with this skill are familiar with the typical manners of formal interaction-at least as they relate to the culture in the campaign world. They know what fanfares are required to greet royal visitors, how to seat the lords and ladies at a table, how to organize the reception line, and how everyone is to be addressed. None of these tasks require a proficiency check.
When dealing with a foreign or completely unknown culture, the characters must pass proficiency checks to correctly gauge the required etiquette. The check should be modified-+2 if the foreigners are the same race as the character, +1 or more if the character has had some time to observe the foreigners.
Characters with the empathy trait gain a +2 bonus to their rating with this proficiency.

43. Fast Draw
Source: Dragon 257
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 3
Ability:Dexterity/Balance As adapted from the 1st-Edition Oriental Adventures rulebook, Fast Draw allows the Fighter to unsheath his weapon with startling speed. A successful proficiency check means that the Warrior suffers no delay in terms of combat phases when removing or returning his weapon from and to its scabbard, as per the Drawing & Sheathing Weapon rules.
A die roll of 1 allows the character to make an attack during the phase the weapon was drawn, generally the characters base phase. Whilst a die roll of a 20 causes the character to cut himself for the weapons normal base damage, i.e. no Strength, specialization or magical if he fails to save vs Breath Weapon, otherwise the weapon is thrown 1d6-1 squares/hexes away.

44. Fasting
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: General
Cost: 1
Ability: Wisdom/Willpower
This proficiency allows a character to go long periods without food, though liquids are still necessary. Any amount of time under one week spent fasting causes no ill effects to the character. At one week, a proficiency check is required. Success means that the character suffers no ill effects and loses 5lbs. Failure means that the character temporarily loses one point from Strength and one point from Constitution as well as 10lbs. The character's weight will not fall below 15lbs per foot of height.
At the end of each week after the first, the character must make a proficiency check at a cumulative penalty of -1 . If the character's Strength or Constitution falls below 1, the character dies. Once the character is able or decides to end the fast, he must begin to eat slowly. Each day following the fast the character recovers one point each of Strength and Constitution, and may only eat normally once fully recovered.
This can be used as survival technique, though it is most often used in religious or mystical situations. The DM should consider granting a bonus where applicable to any character who chooses to fast before performing some sort of religious or mystical activity. The longer the fast, the larger the bonus.

45. Feign Magic
Source: Dragon 255
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
Some characters find it useful to appear to cast magical spells. Perhaps they wish to draw attention to themselves and give a real spellcaster time to cast a spell. They might wish to conceal the identity of a powerful magic item. They might also wish to conceal the presence of a priestly granted power, psionics, or other magic of an unusual nature. Feign Magic relies on a few handy magic sounding phrases and movements that the 'caster' learns well enough to utilize skillfully and confidently, as if casting a spell that requires somatic and verbal components. The 'caster' mixes these gestures and words and pretends to cast a spell simultaneously while invoking another effect.
Normally, no proficiency check is required, since watching a person wave his hands and watching a magic effect appear afterwards is not extraordinary in a fantasy world. Suspicious characters, however, have a chance to discover the chicanery, forcing the character to make a proficiency check. If the check fails, the fraud is revealed and the viewer realizes that no magic spell was cast. He must still use intuition, deductive reasoning, or other means to determine the actual source of the unnatural effects (if any were created by other means).
The die roll is modified by -1 if the watcher is not a spellcaster, +2 if the watcher has the Magecraft proficiency, +1 if the watcher speaks four or more languages (he might recognize some of the words that the pretender is using), and -2 if the character using Feign Magic has the Magecraft proficiency. Other modifiers that are left up to the DM to decide might be invoked if the character uses the proficiency frequently (that is, a Fighter characater tries to use Feign Magic every round to divert missiles from the party clerics), the NPC's are alerted to the presence of a fake in the area, or the locals are completely unaware of psionics or strange methods of magic and are easily convinced of magic use.

46. Fire-building
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Reason
A character with this proficiency can build a fire in 1d20 minutes, as long as there is dry wood and some small bits of tinder. Add another d20 minutes for each of these factors: the wood (or tinder) is wet, it's raining or foggy, or the winds are strong. A proficiency check is required if conditions are bad and the character is forced to work without shelter.

47. Fishing
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Knowledge
A character with this proficiency knows how to catch fish with hook and line, net, and spear. If fish are present in a body of water, a successful proficiency check means the character has caught something. Typically, with a successful check, the fisherman he will catch 1d6 fish in an hour. This number can be doubled if many fish are present. It is reduced to one fish per hour if the character is seeking large quarry-such as sturgeon, muskellunge, giant carp, or salt-water fish.

48. Forgery
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Rogue
Cost: 3
Ability: Dexterity/Aim, Wisdom/Willpower
This proficiency indicates a skill at creating false documents, mimicking the handwriting of others, and detecting forgeries. No check is required if the character is simply trying to duplicate a style of writing-the issuing of an anonymous military decree, for example. Characters trying to duplicate the signatures of specific individuals must see those signatures; the DM rolls the proficiency checks secretly to see if the forgeries are successful. If a character writes a longer message in a specific hand, the DM rolls the check with a -2 modifier. The DM should also roll the check if a character seeks to determine if another document is a forgery. On a 20, the character makes the wrong assumption, whereas a failure with less than 20 means that the character is not sure of the truth or falsehood of the sample.

49. Gaming
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Knowledge
A character with this proficiency is familiar with all manner of gambling games. A successful proficiency check means the character will win a given game being played with NPCs-although cumulative negative modifiers should be assigned for each NPC with the gaming proficiency. Subtract 1 for each proficient NPC, with -2 for those with higher than basic gaming expertise.
The character might try to cheat, which confers a +3 to the gaming proficiency score and requires a check. If the proficiency check rolled is a 20, the character gets caught cheating, even if no NPCs have the gaming proficiency. Add one to this spread for each NPC with gaming proficiency-i.e., if two others have this skill, the cheater will be caught on a roll of 18-20.

50. Gem-cutting
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Rogue, Wizard
Cost: 3
Ability: Dexterity/Aim
A character with this proficiency each day can work 1d10 uncut stones into finished gems. The worker needs good light and an assortment of chisels, hammers, and hard cutting blades.
The gem cutter can do decent work without a proficiency check; the stones cut will be valued in the typical range for that type of gem. However, if the cutter seeks to do a unique and very high-quality job, a proficiency check is called for. Failure means the stone is destroyed, but success results in a gem of double the usual value.

51. Glassblowing
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Wizard
Cost: 2
Ability: Dexterity/Aim. Strength/Stamina
A character skilled at this trade can manufacture all kinds of glass containers, jars, or bottles. Creating symmetrical or precise pieces requires a proficiency check, but if a character is making items for usefulness instead of decoration, he can produce about 10 small containers, 5 medium containers, or 2 large ones in a day's work. The character must have access to a specialized glazier's workshop and furnace in order to make use of this skill.

52. Grooming (animal)
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition
This character is adept in grooming a specific species of animal that must be chosen when the proficiency is taken. This can be used to increase the price of an animal for sale, or simply to make the specific animal look and feel its best. For instance, after a hard ride Gallaina might choose to spend an hour in thc stable giving her horse a thorough rub-down and hoof cleaning. Or Blent always gets the best price for his champion wardogs because he spends extra time cleaning and trimming their coats.

53. Grooming (humanoid)
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition
This character knows how to make people look good or bad through the use of makeup, hair styling, and clothing. A character with the grooming proficiency can temporarily increase or decrease his or another character's Charisma by 2 (maximum 18), affecting the reactions of those able to view the character. This improvement can last anywhere from an hour to a full day, depending on the character's activities and the elements (DM's discretion). This proficiency also gives a +2 bonus to disguise proficiency checks.

54. Harness Subconscious
Source: The Complete Psionics Handbook
NWP Group: Psionicist
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Willpower
This meditative proficiency lets the psionicist temporarily boost his total PSPs. In effect, the proficiency lets him tap into energy reserves that lie deep in his subconscious-reserves which are usually unavailable to him. It's like enjoying a shot of psychic adrenaline. Before he can harness subconscious energies, the psionicist's PSP total must be at its maximum. He then must spend two days (48 consecutive hours) gathering this energy, taking only necessary breaks for eating and sleeping. At the end of that time, the character makes a proficiency check. If he passes, he increases his PSP total by 20%, rounded up.
The increase in PSPs lasts 72 hours. At the end of that time, the character loses as many strength points as he initially gained, regardless of his current total. This loss can never reduce his total below 0 points, however.
During the 72 hours of heightened strength, the character cannot recover PSPs if his current total equals or exceeds his usual maximum. Once his current total drops below his usual maximum (i.e., once he has spent all bonus points), he can begin regaining PSPs normally. He cannot recover the lost bonus points, however; he can only recover enough points to return to his usual maximum.

55. Healing
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 4
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Charisma/Leadership
Characters with this proficiency can perform first aid on fresh wounds and can supervise the recovery of themselves and others. If the characters tend a wound on the round immediately after it is inflicted, a successful proficiency check means that 1d3 points of damage have been restored (to a maximum of the damage inflicted the previous round). If they tend a wound within one hour of its infliction, they can heal 1 point with a successful check. No character can benefit from this proficiency more than once a day.
This proficiency can also help with long-term healing and resisting poison and disease; these procedures are detailed in the Player's Handbook.

56. Heraldry
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: General
Cost: 2
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
These characters are familiar with the heraldic symbols of their own lands, and those of neighboring lands. The characters can make proficiency checks when confronted with unusual or rare symbols; success means that they can identify the symbols. A character with the obscure knowledge trait gains a +2 bonus to the use of this proficiency.

57. Herbalism
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Priest, Wizard
Cost: 3
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition, Intelligence/Knowledge
This skill indicates that a character is familiar with the uses of natural plant products for good and ill. If a character spends a day searching the woods, and makes a successful proficiency check, enough herbs, fungi, roots, leaves, pollen, and pulp has been gleaned for 2d6 doses.
The most common use of these herbs is as an aid to healing; one dose of herbs can be used in conjunction with the healing proficiency (by the herbalist or another healer). This dose adds +1 point to the wounds cured by a successful healing proficiency check. Even if the healing check fails, the herbs still restore the 1 hit point. With no healing proficiency, the herbs can still be used, but the herbalist needs to roll a successful check to restore the 1 hit point.
The herbs also can be used to create a poison, either ingested or injected. A single use of poison requires two doses of herbs. The lethality or other effects of the poison (paralysis, unconsciousness, delusions, etc.) must be worked out with the DM.

58. High Magic
Source: Dragon 242
NWP Group: Mage
Cost: 3
Ability: Intelligence/Knowledge
This proficiency gives the character a formal knowledge of the most powerful magic's in the campaign world (a knowledge of realm magic, for example), including true dweomers and other tenth-level magic. Lesser-known and obscure bits of information will be "remembered" with a successful proficiency check. DMs may disallow this proficiency on a case-by-case basis (i.e., an Anuirean regent might know much about realm magic, but his commoner bodyguard will not).

59. Hypnotism
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic and
The Complete Psionics Handbook
NWP Group: Wizard, Psionicist
Cost: 4
Ability: Charisma/Leadership
With this proficiency, the wizard can hypnotize another character, placing him into a relaxed state in which he is susceptible to suggestions. The subject must be willing and must know he is being hypnotized. Humans and demihumans can be hypnotized with ease. Non-humans can be hypnotized, too, but the DM should assign a penalty to the proficiency check. The size of the penalty depends on how inhuman the subject is. A half-ore, for example, could be hypnotized with a -2 modifier while a lizard man could be hypnotized with a -8 modifier to the proficiency check. Of course, the hypnotist and the subject must be able to understand one another's language.
It takes about five minutes to hypnotize someone in a reasonably calm or peaceful environment. Once hypnotized, the subject is willing to do almost anything that isn't very dangerous or against his alignment. However, a hypnotized subject can be fooled into thinking he's doing one thing when he's actually doing something else. Hypnotism can have the following effects: A character can be induced to remember things he has forgotten by reliving a frightening or distant event.
A character can be made calm and unafraid in the face of a specific situation that he has been prepared for, gaining a +2 bonus to saving throws versus fear effects or morale checks. A character can be cured of a bad habit or addiction (but not of curses, physical diseases, or magical afflictions.)
Hypnotism can't increase a character's attributes, give him skills he does not normally possess, let him do things that are beyond his capabilities, or give him information he couldn't possibly know. As a guideline for adjudicating effects, the hypnotism proficiency is substantially weaker than magical commands or directions, such as charm person, command, or hypnotism. Spells magically compel a person to obey the caster's will; a well-phrased hypnotic command is nothing more than a strong suggestion.

60. Hunting
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Warrior
Cost: 2
Ability: Wisdom/Intuition
The hunting proficiency allows a character to find game and get reasonably close to it. The actual kill is handled using rolls to hit and for damage. Hunting is a proficiency that always requires a successful proficiency check when it is used.
If the check is successful, the hunter will reach a position within 1d100 + 100 yards of the quarry. Generally it will take about 2-12 daylight hours to reach this position, though an abundance or scarcity of game can decrease or increase this time at the DM's option. Night hunting might be possible for characters with infravision.
The hunter also possesses a basic skill at removing skin from an animal, and butchering the carcass into usable meat. These tasks require no checks.

61. Investigation
Source: Players Option: Spells & Magic
NWP Group: Priest
Cost: 4
Ability: Intelligence/Reason
This is the art of discovering the truth through careful examination of a problem or situation. A character with this skill is familiar with the process of interviewing or interrogating witnesses, searching scenes for clues or information, and the general execution of a logical and thorough investigation. Priests who are associated with the local government may be called upon to solve common crimes against the state, while other priests may be inquisitors or theological investigators.
The DM may allow the PC to attempt a proficiency check when the player is missing an obvious line of inquiry or step of deductive reasoning, although this should be a rare use of this ability. An investigation proficiency check can also be used to discover clues at the scene of a crime or to extract information from a witness or suspect.

62. Jewelry Making
Source: Dragon 254
NWP Group: General
Cost: 3
Ability: Dexterity/Aim
A character with this proficiency is capable of producing works of jewelry, given the proper tools, workplace, and materials. Proper use of the proficiency requires a complete workshop. The building cost varies according to the character's needs, but the tools involved are expensive and difficult to get. A basic set of tools can cost anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000gp, and more elaborate jewelry may require more exotic tools. The DM should determine what is needed and be careful to balance the cost with the potential profit.
The time required to make an item varies and should be determined by the player and his DM. After the allotted work time has expired, a proficiency check should be made. If a natural 20 is rolled, then the piece is ruined and the materials are wasted. Any other failed check means that the item is flawed in some way that anyone with the Appraising proficiency can detect and is worth only the cost of materials.
If the proficiency check is successful, multiply the cost of materials by 100% plus 10%, for each point by which the check succeeded. For instance, Hargar the gnome wishes to make a ring out of a particularly nice topaz he has acquired. The topaz is worth 500gp, and he uses 20gp worth of platinum. The DM decides that, to do a fine job, Hargar must spend one week working on this item. At the end of this week, a proficiency check is made. Hargar has a skill of 14. He rolls a 9, succeeding with a margin of five points. This means that Hargar now has a nice ring that he can keep or sell for 780gp, 150% the cost of materials.

63. Juggling
Source: Players Option: Skills & Powers
NWP Group: Rogue
Cost: 3
Ability: Dexterity/Aim
A character with this proficiency can juggle up to three small objects without a proficiency check. Additional objects can be added, but a check is required; use a -1 modifier for each item beyond the fourth. Checks are also required for spectacular feats, such as juggling lighted torches or whirling scimitars, with failure meaning that 1d4 items are dropped. The potential for damage or disaster is left to the DM.
This skill is primarily useful for entertainment or diversions, though characters with the juggling proficiency have a chance to catch small objects-such as darts or daggers-that are thrown at them. They must be facing the source of the attack to make such an attempt, and they must make a proficiency check with a -2 modifier. Failure means they are automatically hit by the thrown objects.

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