What Are Skills ?

Whether flying through a canyon in a blistering-fast starfighter or dueling a vampire on the rain-slicked roof of a castle, we expect your character to do exciting and dangerous activities in the course of their adventures. Whether those exciting and dangerous actions succeed or fail is determined by your character’s skills. Skills represent what your character excels at doing; the more ranks in a skill, the better your character performs that skill. Anytime your character does something that has a possibility of failure (and that failure has some negative consequences for your character), your character makes a skill check to see if they succeed or not.