Now, on to Professional Skills

More of my house rules influenced by EPT. This is a riff off Barker's professional skills, but with the knowledge that Barker's magic rules are very different from D&D/S&W style magic.

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Characters start play with 3-5 professional skills. This includes special training with weapons, languages, or spells, depending on the character's class. Characters can improve these skills over time, but this represents how well-trained a new character is.

TABLE: STARTING PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
d20 rol  Result
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01 - 04  Choose any 3 from the first 4 in your profession.
05 - 08  Choose any 4 from the first 5
09 - 15  Choose any 5 from the first 6
16 - 18  Choose any 5 from the first 7
19 - 20  Choose any 5 from the first 8

TABLE: PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

FIGHTER                 MAGIC-USER              ROGUE
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Brawler                 Detect Magic            Knows 2 modern languages
Pole Arms               Read Languages          Knows 1 ancient language
Hafted                  Purify (Putrefy)        Brawler
Blades                    Food and Drink        Blades
Archer                  Light (Dark) I          Detect Magic
Musketeer               Cure (Cause) Wounds I   Light (Dark) I         
Two-weapon Combat       Hold Portal             Cure (Cause) Wounds I
Cannoneer               Charm Person            Hold Portal
Strategist              Sleep                   Charm Person

FIGHTER SKILLS
Most of the fighter skills provide a +1 bonus with appropriate weapons, as noted in the Fighter Weapon Skill Table. Cannoneer is skill in using field artillery pieces. Two-weapon Combat allows a character to fight in melee with one weapon in each hand. This does not grant the character any bonus attack, but does result in an additional +1 bonus to attack rolls. Strategist is skill in battlefield planning and commanding troops.

TABLE: FIGHTER WEAPON SKILL

SKILL  APPLIES TO
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BRAWLER  Unarmed combat
POLE ARMS Spear, Halberd, Misc. Polearms
HAFTED    Axe, Mace, Hammer and Morningstar
BLADES  Dagger, Short Sword, Sword, Two-handed Sword
SLINGER  Slings
ARCHER  Bows, Crossbows
MUSKETEER Pistols, Rifles

MAGIC-USER SKILLS
Every magic-user begins with the spell Read Magic in his or her spell book. Professional skills represent additional spells the character may begin play having scribed in his or her spell book.

ROGUE SKILLS
Rogues have access to some fighter weapon skills and to some magic-user spells for his or her spell book.

GAINING ADDITIONAL CLASS SKILLS
Each even level (2, 4, 6, 8, 10) gained, a character may add one more skill from the class list automatically. However, magic-users and rogues are free to also acquire additional spells for their spell-books in play.