Info/description for skills
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- Devi
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INSTRUMENT
This indicates your general familiarity with musical instruments, and affects how well you play and tune them.
Could we add the syntax to the juggling skillfile? Some newbies seem to have trouble with it.
PLUCKING INSTR.
This indicates how well you play plucked instruments like the lyre and harp.
PERCUSSION INSTR.
This indicates how well you keep a beat on percussion instruments like the drum and castanets.
SIRILITH
This indicates how well you speak and understand the language of Elor. It is spoken exclusively by druids in the service of Evren.
INGELOAKASTIMIZILLIAN
This indicates how well you can remember excessively long names. A master in this skill can be introduced to a roomful of dragons without breaking a sweat.
INSTRUMENT
This indicates your general familiarity with musical instruments, and affects how well you play and tune them.
Could we add the syntax to the juggling skillfile? Some newbies seem to have trouble with it.
PLUCKING INSTR.
This indicates how well you play plucked instruments like the lyre and harp.
PERCUSSION INSTR.
This indicates how well you keep a beat on percussion instruments like the drum and castanets.
SIRILITH
This indicates how well you speak and understand the language of Elor. It is spoken exclusively by druids in the service of Evren.
INGELOAKASTIMIZILLIAN
This indicates how well you can remember excessively long names. A master in this skill can be introduced to a roomful of dragons without breaking a sweat.
- Kortha
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hirogliphen is a font that's apparently extremely rare
lore I have no clue...the only place I ever get it is when going to Elor
kata, from what I understand, is a shao master only skill used for doing "practice forms" of the various shao moves...I have no idea what effects it has though
Someone told me once that the various lore skills enable you to leave less obvious tracks when travelling that type of terrain, but then what about flora and fauna lore? *boggles*
I'm not sure exactly what location sense does either, considering that in places like the swamp you use astronomy to find where north is. All I can think is maybe it affects exactly how messed up the exits appear to you when you first walk in.
lore I have no clue...the only place I ever get it is when going to Elor
kata, from what I understand, is a shao master only skill used for doing "practice forms" of the various shao moves...I have no idea what effects it has though
Someone told me once that the various lore skills enable you to leave less obvious tracks when travelling that type of terrain, but then what about flora and fauna lore? *boggles*
I'm not sure exactly what location sense does either, considering that in places like the swamp you use astronomy to find where north is. All I can think is maybe it affects exactly how messed up the exits appear to you when you first walk in.
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- Abharsair
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"Kata" is a Shaolin skill. Maybe their guild wizard could write a skill description.
"Fauna" and "flora lore" got removed when we implemented the new skill system. You still got them? If so, it's a bug.
"Lore" is... uhm... no idea. I think Druids use it. If so, maybe Allalltar can tell us what it is.
"Hirogliphen" is a very unsuccessful attemp to spell "hieroglyphs". At least that's my guess. But yeah, it's a font.
Actually, since we got some experts for the English language, what's the plural of hieroglyph? Some claim it's "hieroglyphs", others say it's "hieroglyphics".
"Fauna" and "flora lore" got removed when we implemented the new skill system. You still got them? If so, it's a bug.
"Lore" is... uhm... no idea. I think Druids use it. If so, maybe Allalltar can tell us what it is.
"Hirogliphen" is a very unsuccessful attemp to spell "hieroglyphs". At least that's my guess. But yeah, it's a font.
Actually, since we got some experts for the English language, what's the plural of hieroglyph? Some claim it's "hieroglyphs", others say it's "hieroglyphics".
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- Devi
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SIGN LANGUAGE
This indicates how well you speak and understand the wordless language of gestures.
HORSE COMBAT
This skill indicates your proficiency at fighting from the back of a mount.
They're not great, but they're better than nothing.
Note: Horse combat should be changed to mounted combat now that we have wolves.
This indicates how well you speak and understand the wordless language of gestures.
HORSE COMBAT
This skill indicates your proficiency at fighting from the back of a mount.
They're not great, but they're better than nothing.
Note: Horse combat should be changed to mounted combat now that we have wolves.
- Kortha
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A hieroglyph is a single character in a hieroglyphic writing system. Hieroglyphics refers to the writing system as a whole. Saying "hieroglyphs" is perfectly valid if saying something like "I found several hieroglyphs on this wall" but it doesn't refer to the whole writing system, just a few characters sitting around somewhere.
PS. That paragraph was damn hard to type. O.o
PS. That paragraph was damn hard to type. O.o
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PLUCKING INSTR.
This indicates your ability to handle instruments that work
with plucking, e.g. lyres. Be aware that you don't hit an enemy
with your instrument, it might break.
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT
This indicates your ability to handle instruments that work
with percussion, e.g. drums. Be aware that you don't hit an enemy
with your instrument, it might break.
HIROGLIPHEN
The method of writing based on hieroglyphs, which can mean
both syllables or entire words. The use of this writing method is
unknown.
NOTE: If there is a purpose for hirogliphen, and I'm wrong, then fix that last sentence. ;P
LORE
This skill indicates how familiar you are with
various environments. With a good
lore skill, you are better able to orient
yourself, and less likely to lose your way.
NOTE: I'm not sure if that's right, but it's as good a guess as any. I recently found out that with an improved lore skill, I can navigate through a certain fog without getting lost. That has to mean something.
This indicates your ability to handle instruments that work
with plucking, e.g. lyres. Be aware that you don't hit an enemy
with your instrument, it might break.
PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT
This indicates your ability to handle instruments that work
with percussion, e.g. drums. Be aware that you don't hit an enemy
with your instrument, it might break.
HIROGLIPHEN
The method of writing based on hieroglyphs, which can mean
both syllables or entire words. The use of this writing method is
unknown.
NOTE: If there is a purpose for hirogliphen, and I'm wrong, then fix that last sentence. ;P
LORE
This skill indicates how familiar you are with
various environments. With a good
lore skill, you are better able to orient
yourself, and less likely to lose your way.
NOTE: I'm not sure if that's right, but it's as good a guess as any. I recently found out that with an improved lore skill, I can navigate through a certain fog without getting lost. That has to mean something.
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- chara
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OK, please test percussion and plucking instruments again, I think the thing with the weird names should be fixed now.
I fixed "teaching" which I'd mistakenly named "training."
I fixed ritual. Yegerfin, if you have any more information about the skill that you'd like me to add, I'll be happy to.
I added hirogliphen, but I'm holding off on "lore" for the moment, since I can't get a confirmation yet on what the skill actually does, and I don't want to give people inaccurate information.
If anyone notes any errors, has suggestions for changes, or has suggestions for information for new skill descriptions, please let me know!
I fixed "teaching" which I'd mistakenly named "training."
I fixed ritual. Yegerfin, if you have any more information about the skill that you'd like me to add, I'll be happy to.
I added hirogliphen, but I'm holding off on "lore" for the moment, since I can't get a confirmation yet on what the skill actually does, and I don't want to give people inaccurate information.
If anyone notes any errors, has suggestions for changes, or has suggestions for information for new skill descriptions, please let me know!
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- Naga
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Thank you so much for correcting the name of "hirogliphen." You probably have no idea how much something like that gets under the skin of a pedantic bastard like myself, especially when I had to bring myself to type the word. In the not-too-distant past, I whined for about 45 minutes to a fellow player about how "hirogliphen" is essentially meaningless, as the Greek-derived prefix "hiero-" (from hieros, meaning holy) is so abhorrently rendered (I mean no offense to whoever coded "hiroglyphen"). Again, thank you so much.
- stilgar
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Hmm.. I gues I'll travel to the US and marry you I wanted to do it anyways.. now you're doomedNaga wrote:Thank you so much for correcting the name of "hirogliphen." You probably have no idea how much something like that gets under the skin of a pedantic bastard like myself
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