Skills

Most skill 'a'pplications receive general penalties if you are blind, stunned, confused, or in the dark. These will be omitted for non-combat skills to save space; do not rely on any non-combat skill to work exactly as described if you are disabled.

Alchemy

• Alchemy Fireballs deal 12d12 damage, doesn't appear to depend on stats/Alchemy skill.

Alertness

• Strongly factors into your ability to dodge bolt spells. (87.5% stacking with all other bonuses at max skill)
• Gives you an Alertness / 600 chance to avoid traps.
• Can be trained by dodging spells from something like a Kobold Shaman.

Also raises DV a small amount:
Alertness > 75 AND HaveAlchemy = +4DV
Else Alertness > 90 = +2DV
Else Alertness 75-90 = +1DV

Athletics

• Gives +8 speed at 100 Skill.

Backstabbing

• Harder the high level monster you're attacking.
• Doesn't work on Undead or Constructs.
• Successful backstabs give an added 1/4 chance to crit.
• Gives a +4 To Hit, and Level12+ Assassins get a +Level ToHit in addition.
• Deals double damage if successful, or quadruple for Level12+ Assassins ans Thieves.

Bridge Building

• Reading the Manual of Bridge Building when you don't already have the skill teaches you the skill, giving you 5d5 points in it. Reading it once you already know the skill doesn't do anything whatsoever, despite the message saying 'it still contains some information you haven't learned'.
• Using blessed hatchets while building bridges improves your chances.
• Giving Hatchets to Carpenter raises Bridge Building, (Learning * 0.8 + 2d5)? or grants skill starting at 8+1dLearning+1d10

Climbing

• Easily trained by running around on mountain squares in the Wilderness.
• Applying this has exactly one in-game effect, exiting pits. This may be the only way to exit pits on D:49.

Haggling

• Can be used up to 11 times per level
• Adds (1d110 - Skill) / 3 percent to a price multiplier (slightly simplified around the zero point)
• Price multiplier cannot be lowered below 70%; if you get the starving children message, you've hit the floor and should stop haggling immediately
• Effectiveness is very nonlinear; the skill is useless below ~50, and increasing it further than ~65 is pointless

Pick Locks

• You cannot bypass traps with this skill, ever.
• Attempting to unlock a trapped door may set it off even on fail, chance (29-Ma) in 30.
• Failing to unlock a door trains Ma by 1 if you don't spring a trap - even if there was no trap to spring, possibly a bug.
• Open doors can be closed and locked in a single action.
• Cursed lock picks have a 5% chance of creating traps when doors are locked with them.
• Locking doors is DC 80 / 60 / 40 by C/U/B; unlocking them, 140/120/100.

Pick Pockets

• Only humanoids can be pickpocketed
• 'Ignore walls' monsters (Andor Drakon, ghost librarian) cannot be pickpocketed
• Monsters you can't see can't be pickpocketed, but the check is bugged and only handles timed invisbility - invisible stalkers are fair game

Detect Traps

• DetectTraps / 200+DetectTraps chance to find traps (probably per attempt, very likely including searching, maybe also including walking into adjacent space).

Disarm Traps

• Successfully using Disarm Traps gives you a small amount of experience.

Dodge

• Factors into dodging bolt spells, though not as much as Alertness does.
• SkillAmount / 200 to avoid Stone Block door traps.

Provides a DV bonus depending on your skill level: 01-30: +1
31-50: +2
51-65: +3
66-75: +4
76-83: +5
84-90: +6
91-95: +7
96-99: +9?
100 �: +10
Assassin Lvl32+ = *2
Fighter Lvl12+ = *??

Find Weakness

• Has a SkillAmount / 500 chance of causing a critical hit in melee, SkillAmount / 1000 for Missile attacks.

Food Preservation

• At 60, your chances to get a corpse from a dead monster are doubled. At 90, they are tripled.

Gardening

• Plant seeds do nothing at all - they don't even train the skill.
• Blessed seeds work better and cursed seeds work worse.
• 90 Skill guarantees planting a blessed seed.
• Planting successfully gives +5 Alignment.

Gemology

• (1dSkillAmount / ((100 - DangerLevel) * 5)) chance of mining out gems.
• SkillAmount / 120 to ID unknown gems when they're created.

Literacy

• Reading graves by walking over them repeatedly is an easy way to train your Literacy skill.
• Getting the Weird Tome sets your Literacy to 100.
• Eating a non-cursed Dark Sage corpse will gain you the Literacy skill. Eating a cursed Dark Sage corpse will reduce your Literacy.
• Potion of Literacy grants you the Literacy skill. If you already have it, it instead trains Learning: 20 if cursed, 100 if uncursed, 500 if blessed.

Mining

• 1/20 chance of stone giant from mining.
• 1/40 chance for pickaxe to break break if not rusty and you fail a skill check.
• 1/6 chance to break if rusty and you fail a skill check.
• 1/3 chance for rocks, 1/300 for huge rock, (1/10 for iron then 1/20 for mithril, then 1/30 for addy, then 1/40 for eternium)
• Corroding your pickaxe will make it cheaper to repair.

Music

• Type of instrument should not matter, the best I can tell. A flute should be just as effective as a glockenspiel, and lighter. (Whistles are an exception).
• Whistles never tame or calm down anything. They will tend to tell companions to come to you, though it's also possible you'll make them fearful instead.
• Bards have an advantage when using music; their chances for taming/calming down monsters is higher [unclear how much higher] than other classes.
• Only monsters flagged as Animals or Aquatic can be affected by music.
• B/U/C status of an instrument determines how far away creatures can be and still be affected: Blessed - 4, Uncursed - 3, Cursed - 2.

Necromancy

• Still trained when you fail to make something. Lose 3d3 PP when you fail.
• Successful Necromancy gives you -300 Alignment.
• All classes can make zombies with the Necromancy skill; Necromancers can make other things as their level progresses.
• You lose from 1 to 8 Mana for successful application, but your Mana is trained by 2000 per Mana lost (which should be enough to gain the mana back eventually, except at very high Mana levels).
• You cannot use corpses from Unique monsters for Necromancy (that there is only 1 of in the game). Oddly, this does NOT apply to the Minotaur Emperor.
• I believe that only HP and Speed are affected by the type of corpse you use -- the Damage, Attacks, DV, and PV are only based on the type of slave you create and its level.

Smithing

• An easy way to train smithing is by removing rust. Low risk of damaging the item, no lost ingots, and easy to get rusty items with a river or a water trap. Also quite fast.

• Glod charges exactly 2500gp in all cases, and only if he is on the current level, for the use of his forge. Killing him, luring him off the level, and turning him into a writhing mass of primal chaos will all stop the demands; making him hostile won't.

• The Smithing skill costs a base 5000gp from Glod, 5250 if female. If you have very high Charisma, you get a discount; 1% per 1 Ch over 15. Being cursed doubles the price, doomed triple, trollishness doubles, orcishness quadruples, all cumulative.

• You need a hammer wielded in either hand and an anvil in inventory or equipment to smith. If multiple such items apply, the best by BUC is used. The following items count as hammers: large eternium hammer, large mithril hammer, large adamantium hammer, huge iron hammer, eternium warhammer, warhammer, adamantium warhammer, mithril warhammer, hammer of the gods, large hammer.

• You can do three things with a smithing setup - smelt ore, remove rust, and improve items.

• Teleportitis does not occur during smithing sessions. (Needs confirmation)

• Smithing is influenced by the statuses of all involved items (hammer, anvil, work, and ingot if applicable). BUCMod in the below formulas means +10 per cursed item and -10 per blessed item.

• You can never smith artifacts.

Smelting ore

• Takes 25 turns (even for Weaponsmiths). If you are interrupted, the ore is lost.

• Let Difficulty be BUCMod + 0/-5/-10/-20 by ore material (better materials are easier!?).

• If you pass a DC 110+Difficulty Smithing check, you now have an ingot (randomly generated item of the correct type, so 10/80/10 B/U/C and 2% chance of rusty if iron) instead of the ore.

• Otherwise, you fail. Normally you keep the ore. There is a Difficulty+1 in Smithing*4 chance of losing the ore. "On the other hand, you succeed in ruining the�%s."

Removing rust

• Takes 25 turns, or 6 for level 12+ Weaponsmiths. Being interrupted has no lasting effects.

• If you pass a DC 110+BUCMod Smithing check, you remove the rust.

• Otherwise, nothing happens. There is a BUCMod+1 in Smithing*4 chance of the item becoming 'broken'. "The�%s is seriously damaged!"

Improving items

• Requires an ingot of the same material as the work, which is consumed in the process.
• Requires 200 - Smithing turns (one-quarter that for level 12+ Weaponsmiths). Being interrupted has no lasting effects and does not consume an ingot.
• If the item is broken, you will attempt to fix it. Succeed on a DC 120 + BUCMod Smithing check. No penalty on failure.
• Otherwise, you attempt to increase the item's stats. This is a two-step process; first you must pass a Smithing check to improve the item at all, then the amount by which the item is improved is determined. Improvement amounts are determined only by the item's existing stats, not by skill. If you fail the Smithing check, "You fail to improve the�%s.". If you pass it but zero improvement is rolled, "Despite your best efforts the quality of the�%s does not improve.". Otherwise, "You manage to improve the�%s.".
• The difficulty of the check is determined as follows:
  • Start with Difficulty equal to BUCMod.
  • If the item is a weapon, add 12 times the sum of the absolute values of the to-hit and to-damage numbers (X and Y in (+X, 1d4+Y)).
  • Otherwise, add 18 times the sum of the absolute values of the DV and PV numbers.
  • If you are a weaponsmith of any level and Difficulty is positive, divide it by 2. Otherwise, add 20.
  • Subtract your experience level.
  • Final difficulty is 120 + Difficulty, with a minimum of 120.
• Supposing you pass the test, the amounts and types of increase depend on the item's class.
• For melee weapons and missile launchers:
  • Increase to-hit by 1d4 if to-hit is less than 9 and one chance in the (absolute value of to-hit or 2, whichever is larger).
  • Increase to-damage by 1d4 if to-damage is less than 9 and one chance in the (absolute value of to-damage or 2, whichever is larger), and to-hit was not increased.
  • For melee weapons only, increase the DV modifier by 1 if it is no more than 3 more than the base DV modifier of the weapon type, and neither to-hit nor to-damage were increased.
• For helmets, armor, girdles, shields, bracers, gauntlets, and boots:
  • Increase DV by 1d3 if it is less than 6 more than the base value OR on a one-in-(3 + 2*abs(DV)) chance.
  • Increase PV by 1d3 if it is less than 4 more than the base value OR on a one-in-(3 + 2*abs(PV)) chance, and DV was not increased.
• All other item types cannot be improved.

Stealth

• Factors into being able to ambush in the Wilderness. ((Survival + Stealth) / 2) - 1 / 500 are the odds of being able to sneak up on the enemies.

Survival

• Success depends on where you're using the skill. In order from the easiest: Forest, Swamp Patch & Rugged Terrain & Rocky Terrain & Grass, Hills, Plains, Road, Mountains & Swamps, Water.
• The Ranger Level 6 ability halves this difficulty and procures 3 times as much food.
• The Falcon Birthsign gives a 1/3 chance of success even if you fail the initial check.
• Factors into being able to ambush in the Wilderness. ((Survival + Stealth) / 2) - 1 / 500 are the odds of being able to sneak up on the enemies.

Swimming

• You can learn swimming from giving Blup Carrot Juice. You need to give Blup either 2+ Carrot Juices at the same time, or 1 Blessed one; you'll gain Rnd(5) + 5 in Swimming. (Blup can't be angry or frightened or anything of course.)
• Being more burdened makes it harder to swim.
• Drowning damage depends on your MaxHP.
• Swimming with the chaos piranhas deals 100d4 damage.
• Swimming has an energy cost of 1500 at skill 50+ or 1250 below (probably a bug). Wearing an amulet of free action (other sources of the intrinsic do not work) negates this effect.

Tactics

• Will not be trained if you're using Normal Tactics.
• Learning / 500 chance to gain training in tactics, if your tactics are not set to normal, every time you make an attack.

Starting Skill Amounts

(Note: these are cumulative if they overlap, e.g. universal Climbing + Ranger Climbing)

Climbing = Rnd(Dx) + Rnd(10) + 20
First Aid = Rnd(Le) + Rnd(10) + 15
Haggling = Rnd(Ch) + Rnd(10) + 15
Listing = Rnd(Pe) + Rnd(10) + 20
If NOT Barbarian or Beastfighter AND Learning > 9: Literacy: Learning * 4?

Fighter:
Athletics = Rnd(To) + Rnd(5) + 25
Archery = Rnd(Dx) + 10
Dodge = Rnd(Dx) + 15
Find Weakness = Rnd(10) + 10
Meallurgy = Rnd(10) + 10
Stealth = Rnd(10) + 10
Swimming = Rnd(20) + 20
Two-weapon Combat = Rnd(5) + 5

Paladin:
Athletics: Rnd(To) + Rnd(5) + 20
Concentration = Rnd(Wi) + 20
Dodge = Rnd(Dx) + 20
Healing = Rnd(10) + 30
Literacy = Rnd(Le) + 25
Stealth = Rnd(Dx) + Rnd(10) + 20
Swimming = Rnd(20) + 20
Two-weapon Combat = Rnd(5) + 5
If lawful, Law = Rnd(20) + 20

Ranger:
Alertness: Rnd(Pe) + 20
Archery: Rnd(Dx) + 20
Athletics: Rnd(To) + Rnd(10) + 30
Climbing: Rnd(Dx) + 20
Dodge: Dx * 2
Food Preservation: 8d5
Healing: Rnd(10) + 15
Herbalism: Rnd(Le) + 20
Survival: Rnd(Pe * 2) + 30
Swimming: Rnd(20) + 30
Two-weapon Combat: Rnd(10) + 50
Woodcraft: Rnd(10) + 20

Thief:
Alertness: Rnd(30) + 10
Appraising: Rnd(Le) + 2d6
Backstabbing: Rnd(5) + 5
Climbing: Rnd(Dx) + 30
Detect Traps: Rnd(Pe) + 30
Disarm Traps: Rnd(Dx) + 25
Listening: Rnd(Pe) + 20
Pick Locks: Rnd(20) + 30
Pick Pockets: Rnd(20) + 25
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 30

Assassin:
Alchemy: 10
Alertness: Rnd(30) + 20
Archery: Rnd(10) + 20
Backstabbing: Rnd(20) + 30
Climbing: Rnd(Dx) + 20
Detect Traps: Rnd(Pe) + 15
Dodge: Rnd(10) + 10
Find Weakness: Rnd(30) + 20
Pick Locks: Rnd(20) + 30
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 30
Two-weapon Combat: Rnd(6) * Rnd(6) + 20

Wizard:
Alchemy: Rnd(Le) * 2 + 20
Concentration: Rnd(Wi) + Rnd(10) + 30
Healing: Rnd(Le) + 10
Herbalism: Rnd(30) + 20
Literacy: 100
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 20

Priest:
Concentration: Rnd(Wi) + Rnd(10) + 20
Detect Item Status: Rnd(50) + 50
First Aid: Rnd(20) + 20
Healing: Rnd(Le) + 40
Herbalism: Rnd(30) + 30
Literacy: Rnd(30) + 60
Music: Rnd(10) + 20

Bard:
NEVER get: Necromancy, Bridge Building, Tactics, Law, or Courage.
ALWAYS gets: Music: Rnd(40) + 60
Every other skill: If 1d100 < 26 (25%), then gain that skill at Rnd(20) + 15

Monk:
Alertness: Rnd(30) + 20
Athletics: Rnd(To) + Rnd(5) + 30
Concentration: Rnd(Wi) + 30
Dodge: Rnd(Dx) + 20
Find Weakness: Rnd(20) + 20
Healing: Rnd(10) + 30
Literacy: Rnd(Le) + 40
Stealth: Rnd(Dx) + Rnd(20) + 20

Healer:
Alertness: Rnd(10) + 10
Concentration: Rnd(Wi) + 20
Cooking: Rnd(30) + 10
Find Weakness: Rnd(10) + 10
First Aid: Rnd(30) + 40
Healing: Rnd(30) + 50
Herbalism: Rnd(40) + 40
Literacy: Rnd(50) + 50

Weaponsmith:
Appraising: Rnd(30) + 10
Athletics: Rnd(40) + 20
Concentration: Rnd(10) + 10
Detect Traps: Rnd(10) + 5
Find Weakness: Rnd(10) + 10
Haggling: Rnd(Ch) + 30
Metallurgy: Rnd(30) + 40
Smithing: Rnd(30) + 40

Archer:
Alertness: Rnd(20) + 20
Archery: Rnd(30) + 50
Climbing: Rnd(20) + 30
Concentration: Rnd(20) + 20
Dodge: Rnd(20) + 30
Fletchery: Rnd(20) + 30
Listening: Rnd(10) + 30
Stealth: Rnd(20) + 30

Merchant:
Appraising: Rnd(40) + 30
Detect Item Status: Rnd(10) + 10
Gemology: Rnd(30) + 30
Haggling: Rnd(30) + 40
Herbalism: Rnd(10) + 10
Literacy: Rnd(30) + 40
Metallurgy: Rnd(20) + 20
Pick Pickets: Rnd(20) + 20
If Scroll Specialist, Literacy: Rnd(20) + 30
If Potion Specialist, Alchemy: 1d(Le)
Otherwise, Survival: Rnd(20) + 20

Farmer:
Archery: Rnd(20) + 5
Bridge Building: Rnd(10) + 10
Cooking: Rnd(10) + 10
First Aid: Rnd(20) + 30
Fletchery: Rnd(10) + 10
Food Preservation: Rnd(30) + 40
Gardening: Rnd(Le * 2) + 20
Haggling: Rnd(20) + 20
Herbalism: Rnd(30) + 20
Smithing: Rnd(10) + 10
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 10
Survival: Rnd(20) + 40
Woodcraft: Rnd(10) + 5

Mindcrafter:
Concentration: Rnd(20) + 50
Gemology: Rnd(30) + 20
Haggling: Rnd(10) + 10
Herbalism: Rnd(10) + 10
Literacy: Rnd(40) + 50
Music: Rnd(20) + 20
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 20

Barbarian:
Athletics: Rnd(30) + 30
Climbing: Rnd(20) + 50
Dodge: Rnd(20) + 50
First Aid: Rnd(20) + 20
Herbalism: Rnd(10) + 20
Stealth: Rnd(30) + 30
Swimming: Rnd(30) + 30
Two-weapon Combat: Rnd(20) + 20
Survival: Rnd(20) + 30
Woodcraft: Rnd(10) + 10

Druid:
Climbing: Rnd(20) + 30
Concentration: Rnd(20) + 30
First Aid: Rnd(20) + 40
Gardening: Rnd(5) + 5
Healing: Rnd(10) + 40
Herbalism: Rnd(30) + 60
Listening: Rnd(20) + 30
Literacy: Rnd(20) + 40
Swimming: Rnd(20) + 30
Survival: Rnd(20) + 30
Woodcraft: Rnd(5) + 5

Necromancer:
Alchemy: Rnd(30) + 30
Appraising: Rnd(10) + 10
Concentration: Rnd(20) + 30
Food Preservation: Rnd(20) + 30
Find Weakness: Rnd(10) + 10
Herbalism: Rnd(20) + 20
Literacy: Rnd(30) + 50
Necromancy: Rnd(30) + 50
Stealth: Rnd(20) + 30

Elementalist:
Climbing: Rnd(20) + 20
Concentration: Rnd(30) + 50
Gemology: Rnd(20) + 20
Healing: Rnd(10) + 5
Listening: Rnd(10) + 10
Literacy: Rnd(30) + 30
Metallurgy: Rnd(20) + 20
Swimming: Rnd(20) + 20

Beastfighter:
Athletics: Rnd(30) + 30
Climbing: Rnd(30) + 30
Dodge: Rnd(30) + 30
Healing: Rnd(30) + 30
Herbalism: Rnd(30) + 30
Listening: Rnd(30) + 30
Stealth: Rnd(30) + 30
Swimming: Rnd(30) + 30
Survival: Rnd(10) + 20

Human:
Climbing: Rnd(10) + 10
Food Preservation: Rnd(10) + 10
haggling: Rnd(20) + 10
Swimming: Rnd(20) + 20

Troll:
Athletics: Rnd(30) + 20
Bridge Building: Rnd(10) + 10
Food Preservation: Rnd(40) + 20
Gemology: Rnd(5) + 10
Mining: Rnd(10) + 10

High Elf:
Dodge: Rnd(10) + 20
Listening: Rnd(10) + 20
Literacy: Rnd(10) + 20
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 20

Gray Elf:
Dodge: Rnd(10) + 10
Listening: Rnd(10) + 15
Literact: Rnd(10) + 30
Stealth: Rnd(10) + 30

Dark Elf:
Alertness: Rnd(30) + 10
Climbing: Rnd(20) + 20
Find Weakness: Rnd(10) + 10
Stealth: Rnd(20) + 30

Dwarf:
Climbing: Rnd(10) + 10
Detect Traps: Rnd(10) + 10
Metallurgy: Rnd(30) + 20
Smithing: Rnd(30) + 20
Mining: Rnd(10) + 60

Gnome:
Gemology: Rnd(10) + 10
Listening: Rnd(30) + 10
Pick Pockets: Rnd(10) + 10
Ventriloquism: Rnd(20) + 20
Mining: Rnd(5) + 5

Hurtling:
Archery: Rnd(5) + 10
Cooking: Rnd(20) + 50
Food Preservation: Rnd(30) + 30
Stealth: Rnd(20) + 40
Gardening: Rnd(15) + 15

Orc:
Backstabbing: Rnd(5) + 5
Climbing: Rnd(20) + 20
Find Weakness: Rnd(5) + 5
Metallurgy: Rnd(5) + 5
Mining: Rnd(10) + 5

Drakeling: 
Alertness: Rnd(20) + 20
Food Preservation: Rnd(25) + 20
Music: Rnd(10) + 5
Swimming: Rnd(20) + 40

Sword Birthsign:
Would get a vague bonus to Tactics if it was possible to ever start with Tactics

Falcon Birthsign:
Survival: 10

Skill Checks

When your skill value controls your chances of success at something, it's called a skill check. Every skill check in ADOM has a difficulty class, typically on the order of 120. A die with (the difficulty class) sides is rolled. If it comes up maximum, there is automatic failure; otherwise, you succeed if your skill value is at least as high as the rolled number.

For some skills (the list is in the manual), the die may be rolled multiple times - twice at 80+ skill, three times at 100. The lowest (best for you) result is taken. Note that this nearly eliminates the automatic failure chance.

The Stealthy and Mechanically Inclined talents reduce difficulty class by 10%. E.g. if you would be comparing Stealth against 1d400, compare it against 1d360 instead.

Successful skill checks give 1 + floor(Le / 20) points of active training (see below). Note the discontinuity at Le values divisible by 20.

Increasing Skills

There are 3 semi-hidden variables associated with each skill.

First is your skill advancement schedule. This corresponds loosely to your increase dice, however, it extends in both directions. You could have an advanchement schedule of 1 level beyond 4d5; this would result in 4d5, but the next time your dice decrease, it would stay 4d5. In the other direction, your advancement schedule can be smaller than the class-dependant minimum dice; if this is the case, increases to the dice will appear to do nothing.

Skill advancement automatically decreases by one rank each time your skill level crosses a multiple of 10.

Second and third are the training counters. The two training counters, taken together, determine the amount by which you can raise your skill; if both are zero or the sum is negative, you cannot increase a skill until it has been somehow trained. The counters, here called 'active training' and 'inactive training', are equivalent except that only active training can lead to increases over time. When a skill is increased, voluntarily or by training, the training counters are decreased, taking first from active and then from inactive.

Class Aptitudes

Each class has different proficiencies at skills, reflected in the initial advancement scheme and in the advancement dice floor. Take, for instance, a Fighter's Courage skill. This is in the 3d3 column, so, at 45 skill his Courage will be advancable by [+3d3] at a time. If it is lower, the advancement will be better, or vice versa; advancement moves one column for every multiple of 10 crossed. However, the advancement will never go below the class-specific minimum, in this case 1d3. Clear?

Typefaces are used to indicate skill relevance. Bold skills are guaranteed to the class; italic ones are easily available (race, or in some cases random chance), and plain ones can only be obtained in game.

Class	[+0] always	[+1] at 45 [+1] minimum	[+1d3] at 45 [+1] minimum	[+1d5] at 45 [+1] minimum	[+2d4] at 45 [+1d3] minimum	[+3d3] at 45 [+1d3] minimum	[+3d4] at 45 [+1d5] minimum	[+3d5] at 45 [+1d5] minimum	[+4d4] at 45 [+2d4] minimum	[+4d5] at 45 [+2d4] minimum
Fighter		Detect item status Gardening Necromancy	Gemology Music Pick pockets	Alchemy Appraising Backstabbing Concentration Cooking Law Literacy Pick locks Stealth Ventriloquism	Bridge building Detect traps Disarm traps Food preservation Haggling Herbalism Listening Metallurgy Mining Survival Swimming Tactics Woodcraft	Alertness Archery Courage Find weakness Fletchery	Climbing Dodge First aid Healing Smithing	Two weapon combat	Athletics
Paladin	Necromancy	Backstabbing	Detect item status Gardening Gemology Pick pockets	Appraising Cooking Fletchery Mining Pick locks Stealth Ventriloquism Woodcraft	Alchemy Bridge building Detect traps Disarm traps Food preservation Haggling Listening Music Survival Swimming	Archery Dodge Find weakness Literacy Tactics Two weapon combat	Climbing Courage First aid Healing Herbalism Law Metallurgy Smithing	Alertness	Athletics Concentration
Ranger		Detect item status Necromancy	Disarm traps Gemology Haggling Pick locks Pick pockets	Alchemy Appraising Courage Law Literacy Tactics Ventriloquism	Backstabbing Bridge building Concentration Gardening Smithing Swimming	Archery Cooking Mining Music	Find weakness First aid Healing Metallurgy	Alertness Dodge Fletchery Stealth	Athletics Detect traps Listening Survival Woodcraft	Climbing Food preservation Herbalism Two weapon combat
Thief		Detect item status	Cooking Gardening	Archery Courage Fletchery Law Literacy Music Necromancy Tactics Woodcraft	Bridge building Find weakness First aid Healing Herbalism Metallurgy Smithing Survival Swimming Ventriloquism	Appraising Mining	Alertness Athletics Concentration Dodge Food preservation Gemology Two weapon combat		Alchemy Backstabbing Haggling	Climbing Detect traps Disarm traps Listening Pick locks Pick pockets Stealth
Assassin		Detect item status	Gardening	Alchemy Cooking Courage Law Music Survival Tactics Woodcraft	Appraising Bridge building First aid Fletchery Gemology Haggling Healing Metallurgy Mining Necromancy Smithing Swimming Ventriloquism	Archery Literacy	Alertness Athletics Disarm traps Dodge Food preservation Herbalism Pick pockets Two weapon combat		Detect traps Find weakness Listening Stealth	Backstabbing Climbing Concentration Pick locks
Wizard		Detect item status	Archery Fletchery Mining Tactics Two weapon combat	Appraising Backstabbing Courage Dodge Law Smithing Survival Swimming Woodcraft	Bridge building Climbing Cooking Detect traps Disarm traps Find weakness First aid Gardening Haggling Healing Music Pick locks Pick pockets Stealth Ventriloquism	Alertness Athletics	Food preservation Gemology Listening Metallurgy Necromancy		Herbalism	Alchemy Concentration Literacy
Priest			Archery Fletchery Mining Stealth Tactics Two weapon combat	Alertness Appraising Backstabbing Cooking Courage Dodge Find weakness Gardening Gemology Law Survival Woodcraft	Athletics Bridge building Climbing Detect traps Disarm traps Listening Metallurgy Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Swimming Ventriloquism	Necromancy	Alchemy Music		Food preservation Haggling Herbalism	Concentration Detect item status First aid Healing Literacy
Bard				Courage Law	Alertness Tactics	Archery Detect item status Find weakness Fletchery Mining Necromancy Stealth Swimming Two weapon combat	Backstabbing Bridge building Cooking Dodge Gardening Gemology Survival Woodcraft	Literacy	Alchemy Appraising Athletics Climbing Concentration Detect traps Disarm traps First aid Food preservation Haggling Healing Herbalism Listening Metallurgy Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Ventriloquism	Music
Monk		Appraising Fletchery	Archery Backstabbing Detect item status Gemology	Alchemy Cooking Courage Disarm traps Law Mining Necromancy Survival Woodcraft	Bridge building Climbing Gardening Haggling Metallurgy Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Tactics Ventriloquism	Find weakness Music Swimming	Detect traps Dodge Herbalism Stealth	Literacy Two weapon combat	Alertness Athletics First aid Food preservation Healing Listening	Concentration
Healer		Detect item status Fletchery	Alertness Backstabbing Gemology Tactics Woodcraft	Appraising Archery Courage Dodge Law Mining Music Stealth Survival Two weapon combat	Bridge building Climbing Detect traps Disarm traps Metallurgy Necromancy Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Swimming Ventriloquism	Cooking Gardening	Athletics Find weakness Literacy		Concentration Food preservation Haggling Listening	Alchemy First aid Healing Herbalism
Weaponsmith		Detect item status	Alertness Archery Gardening Music Necromancy Pick pockets Tactics Woodcraft	Backstabbing Cooking Courage Food preservation Gemology Law Listening Literacy Stealth Survival	Alchemy Bridge building Climbing Detect traps Dodge Find weakness First aid Healing Herbalism Mining Pick locks Swimming Two weapon combat Ventriloquism		Appraising Disarm traps	Fletchery	Concentration Haggling	Athletics Metallurgy Smithing
Archer		Detect item status Necromancy	Gardening Gemology Two weapon combat	Appraising Cooking Courage Disarm traps Herbalism Law Literacy Metallurgy Mining Music Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Tactics	Alchemy Alertness Bridge building Swimming Ventriloquism	Backstabbing Listening Woodcraft	Athletics Detect traps Dodge Find weakness First aid Haggling Healing Survival	Food preservation Stealth	Climbing Concentration	Archery Fletchery
Merchant		Necromancy	Backstabbing Find weakness Music Tactics Two weapon combat	Alertness Archery Courage Detect item status Dodge Gardening Law	Athletics Bridge building Concentration Disarm traps First aid Fletchery Healing Pick locks Smithing Stealth Ventriloquism Woodcraft	Survival Swimming	Alchemy Climbing Detect traps Food preservation Herbalism Listening Literacy	Cooking Metallurgy Mining	Gemology Pick pockets	Appraising Haggling
Farmer		Alchemy Detect item status Gemology Necromancy Tactics	Alertness Backstabbing Detect traps Disarm traps Find weakness Healing Two weapon combat Ventriloquism	Appraising Archery Concentration Courage Fletchery Law Literacy Metallurgy Music Pick locks Pick pockets Stealth	Bridge building Dodge Listening Smithing	Athletics Climbing First aid Haggling Herbalism	Mining Survival Swimming Woodcraft	Cooking		Food preservation Gardening
Mindcrafter			Appraising Archery Athletics Backstabbing Climbing Find weakness Fletchery Food preservation Gardening Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Tactics Two weapon combat Woodcraft	Alchemy Cooking Courage Detect item status Detect traps Disarm traps Dodge First aid Healing Herbalism Law Metallurgy Mining Music Necromancy Stealth Survival	Bridge building Swimming Ventriloquism			Gemology Haggling Listening	Alertness Literacy	Concentration
Barbarian		Alchemy Necromancy	Detect item status Literacy Ventriloquism	Appraising Concentration Gemology Haggling Law Pick pockets Tactics	Bridge building Gardening Mining Music Smithing	Backstabbing Courage Detect traps Disarm traps Fletchery Healing Metallurgy Pick locks	Archery Cooking Find weakness Food preservation Stealth	First aid Herbalism Swimming Two weapon combat Woodcraft	Athletics Climbing Dodge Listening	Alertness Survival
Druid		Detect item status Necromancy	Backstabbing Detect traps Disarm traps Gemology Haggling Pick pockets Smithing Tactics Two weapon combat	Alchemy Appraising Archery Cooking Courage Find weakness Fletchery Law Pick locks Ventriloquism	Bridge building Metallurgy	Alertness Concentration Dodge First aid Mining Stealth	Athletics Food preservation Gardening Listening Literacy Music Swimming Woodcraft	Climbing Healing	Survival	Herbalism
Necromancer		Detect item status Gemology Haggling	Detect traps Disarm traps Dodge First aid Fletchery Food preservation Gardening Healing Herbalism Music Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Swimming Tactics Two weapon combat Woodcraft	Appraising Archery Athletics Climbing Cooking Courage Find weakness Law Listening Metallurgy Mining Survival	Alertness Bridge building Ventriloquism	Alchemy		Backstabbing Concentration Literacy Stealth		Necromancy
Elementalist		Detect item status	Backstabbing Detect traps Disarm traps Dodge Fletchery Food preservation Music Pick locks Pick pockets Smithing Tactics Two weapon combat	Archery Cooking Courage Find weakness Law Listening Necromancy Stealth Survival Ventriloquism Woodcraft	Alertness Appraising Athletics Bridge building First aid Gardening Gemology Haggling Healing Herbalism	Climbing	Concentration Metallurgy	Alchemy Literacy Mining Swimming
Beastfighter		Detect item status Necromancy Smithing Two weapon combat	Appraising Fletchery Gemology Haggling Literacy Metallurgy Mining Pick locks Tactics	Alchemy Archery Gardening Law Music	Backstabbing Bridge building Pick pockets Woodcraft	Concentration Cooking Courage Ventriloquism	Survival	Detect traps Disarm traps Find weakness Food preservation	First aid Healing Herbalism	Alertness Athletics Climbing Dodge Listening Stealth Swimming

Training Over Time

This is what happens every turn when the game checks to see if skills get trained up:

• A SkillTrainCountdown value is decreased by 1. If it's then not 0, nothing happens.
• If SkillTrainCountdown = 0, then (130 - Learning) * 5 + Rnd(100) = SkillTrainCountdown. (The higher your learning is, the more often you have a chance to get a skill increase. At 25 Learning you'll be roughly 575 turns between checks; At 15, you'll be at about 625 turns.)
• If no skill can advance, stop here.
• For each skill, If Rnd(SkillPoints + 10) + 1 > SkillPoints, proceed.
• If Skill can advance (has material, has positive active training, not +0, not already at 100), add to skill based on advancement scheme OR Rnd(active training) + 1, whichever is less (and it won't raise over 100 obviously).
• Training is then reduced (active first, as always)

Increasing Skills at Levels

• Skill increases after level 50, henceforth known as fake levels, follow slightly different rules. Take the difference between your level 49 and your level 50 experience requirements. You can gain a fake level if and only if you have gained that much experience since your last levelup (real or fake), and you have at least one advancable skill. (This is why skill uses tend to precipitate fake levels.)

• On non-fake levels only, you have a chance to increase your skill advancment. This is dependant on heavy training; the chance of it happening is (total training) in 1000 for each skill. Improvement cannot occur if you are already at 100, or already have 4d5 or better advancement, or are lacking skill increase materials if applicable. If it does occur, a message is only generated if the visible dice change; increasing from one rank to another is hidden if both are below the floor.

• After this, on non-fake levels, some permanent training is awarded. Your advancement dice are rolled twice; the greater roll is divided by 2 and added as inactive training.

• For the duration of a single levelup (real or fake), some temporary training is made available, equal to (for each skill) your advancement dice, rolled twice taking the larger, divided by 2, and adding a random number from 0 to 3. This temporary training is lost after the level increase whether it is used or not; this can lead to your training going negative. The increase is always added to active training.

• You can increase a number of skills starting at 3 and increasing by 1 for every 5 Le after 10. Bards receive two bonus increases. Level 6+ bards receive an additional bonus increase. Characters born under the sign of the Book, or those under Cup if the (new) level is even, receive an additional increase.

• After removing temporary training, training is decayed, reducing active training to 3/4 of its prior value and inactive training to 7/8. Note that training will never decay if you do not gain levels.

Education

Potions and scrolls of education grant knowledge towards a random skill. 11 tries are made to select a skill which is not already at 100. The chosen skill is then granted at or increased by 6d5, 4d5, or 2d5, depending on BUC.

Training

Potions of training increase the advancement schedule of a random skill, by 2, 1, or -1 steps by BUC. It is guaranteed that a skill not at 4d5 and not at 100 will be chosen if such a skill exists.