Skills
Recursive Skill Synergy Bonuses
For each 5 ranks a character has in a skill, they gain a +2 bonus on synergised skill checks. For example, a character with 10 ranks in Jump gains a +4 bonus to Tumble checks.
Default (from SRD): If a character has 5 or more ranks in a skill, they get a +2 bonus to synergised skill checks.
Stealth and Acuity
- Spot and Listen are combined into one skill called Acuity (WIS).
- Anything which affects your Spot or Listen modifier instead affects your Acuity modifier.
- Anything which requires Spot or Listen as a pre-requisite now requires Acuity.
- Anything which grants Spot or Listen as a class skill, now grants Acuity as a class skill.
- Things which affect both Spot and Listen overlap (they do not stack.) i.e. the Alertness feat, which normally grants +2 Spot and +2 Listen, only grants +2 Acuity, not +4 Acuity.
- Hide and Move Silently are combined into one skill called Stealth (DEX).
- Rules are as above for Acuity.
Specific Classes
- Fighters and Rangers gain Tumble as a class skill. (This was already possible using the Cityscape Web Enhancement.)
- Sorcerors have a revised class skill list. See the Spellcasters page.