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{{#pagetitle: Choosing Your Skills }}

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=Introduction=
Choosing your skills is important - especially as you start. After all, skills are one of the most important parts of character development. Every character starts out with skills, no matter who they are. Skills help add flavor to a character, they inspire development for that character, and they help protect that character and maybe even earn money with the skills that character has. Developing skills will take your characters on many adventures both exciting and dangerous.  Skills are great, and if you use a skill in a thread it needs to be played to the appropriate skill level.  So bear that in mind as you start from the bottom of a skill's mastery levels and work your way up!
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=The Skills Primer=
First things first - to give you an idea of how we play skills here on Standing Trials, please familiarise yourself with the [[:Category: 00 Skills Primer | Skills Primer]]. This will give you a good grasp of what the skill levels mean. At startup your highest skill is Competent. 'Competent' means you have an average grasp of a skill while 'novice' is defined as the beginning phase of one's training.

=Where To Begin=
If you have not taken a look at the [[:Category:Choosing Your Starter Pack| Starter Packages]] category, please remember to do so. This gives you specific information regarding each starting package.

All PCs start with 6 skills. 2 Competent (cannot be a magic domain with a spark mutation), 3 Novice + 1 Racial Bonus . You have the XP and the Knowledge to be at this level. 

In your CS, you'll see the following table:
[[File:Skill Table.png]]

You simply need to edit it to choose your skills.  Your starter  [[:Category: Knowledge | Knowledge]] is numbered. You can - if you choose - name these knowledge but you don't have to. 

In addition, you must also choose what languages you start with your PC knowing.   To begin, most pcs without linguistics skill get one language they're fluent in, and another that they have a basic understanding of.  For further reference, see [[Languages Used In Idalos]]

Once you have chosen your skills you can start playing and put threads up for review / get rewards. The rest of the steps for completing your CS should be done by the time you have completed 5 threads, but really, you've got what you need 

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