Table of Talents/Skills/Occupations

[etaion]

I put together the below randomizable list of 216 occupaions/talents/skills for use in my games.  If a player wants something not on the list, I'm perfectly willing to consider it.
I don't assign a specific attribute trait to talents/skills -- rather each use of a talent is situational.  Example a situation requiring a CHR SR, could be countered by a character with Dancing skill based on his DEX instead.

1 1 1 Acrobatics

1 1 2 Acting

1 1 3 Alchemy

1 1 4 Ancient History/Language

1 1 5 Animal Handler/Trainer

1 1 6 Animal Husbandry

1 2 1 Apothecary/Herbalism

1 2 2 Appraisal

1 2 3 Arcane Lore

1 2 4 Archery, Tourney

1 2 5 Architecture

1 2 6 Armorer/Weaponsmith

1 3 1 Arson

1 3 2 Assassination

1 3 3 Astrology

1 3 4 Athletics

1 3 5 Baking

1 3 6 Balance

1 4 1 Banking

1 4 2 Barbery

1 4 3 Bargaining/Haggling

1 4 4 Basketry

1 4 5 Beekeeping

1 4 6 Begging

1 5 1 Blackmail/Extortion

1 5 2 Blacksmithing

1 5 3 Bookkeeping

1 5 4 Bowyer

1 5 5 Brewer

1 5 6 Bribery

1 6 1 Bureaucracy

1 6 2 Burglary

1 6 3 Butchering

1 6 4 Candlemaking

1 6 5 Carousing

1 6 6 Carpentry

2 1 1 Carter

2 1 2 Carving

2 1 3 Charm

2 1 4 Cleverness

2 1 5 Climbing/Mountaineering

2 1 6 Clockworks/Mechanics

2 2 1 Clothier/Tailor/Seamstress

2 2 2 Coachman/4-in-hand driving

2 2 3 Cobbler

2 2 4 Command

2 2 5 Concealment

2 2 6 Conspiracy

2 3 1 Contortionism

2 3 2 Cooking

2 3 3 Cooper

2 3 4 Courier

2 3 5 Courtliness/High Society

2 3 6 Cryptography

2 4 1 Dancing

2 4 2 Deception/Lie Detection

2 4 3 Diplomacy

2 4 4 Disguises

2 4 5 Ditch/Grave Digger

2 4 6 Diving

2 5 1 Dodging

2 5 2 Drinking, competitive

2 5 3 Dyer

2 5 4 Embroidery

2 5 5 Endurance

2 5 6 Engineering

2 6 1 Escape & Evasion

2 6 2 Etching

2 6 3 Etiquette

2 6 4 Falconry

2 6 5 Farming

2 6 6 Farrier

3 1 1 Ferryman

3 1 2 Fire Building

3 1 3 Fishing

3 1 4 Fisticuffs, Tourney

3 1 5 Fletching

3 1 6 Folklore

3 2 1 Foraging

3 2 2 Forgery

3 2 3 Forging

3 2 4 Fortune Telling

3 2 5 Furrier

3 2 6 Gambling

3 3 1 Gaoler

3 3 2 Gardening

3 3 3 Gem Cutting

3 3 4 Geography

3 3 5 Geology

3 3 6 Glassblowing

3 4 1 Glazier

3 4 2 Glover

3 4 3 Gong Farmer

3 4 4 Government Advisor

3 4 5 Healing

3 4 6 Heraldry

3 5 1 Herding, Cattle

3 5 2 Herding, Geese

3 5 3 Herding, Sheep

3 5 4 Herding, Swine

3 5 5 Horsemanship

3 5 6 Hunting

3 6 1 Hypnosis

3 6 2 Impersonation

3 6 3 Influence/Intimidate

3 6 4 Insight

3 6 5 Interrogation

3 6 6 Investigation

4 1 1 Jester

4 1 2 Jeweler

4 1 3 Judge

4 1 4 Juggling

4 1 5 Knot Tying

4 1 6 Languages

4 2 1 Lasso

4 2 2 Law

4 2 3 Leadership

4 2 4 Leatherwork

4 2 5 Librarian

4 2 6 Literature

4 3 1 Lock Picking

4 3 2 Longshoreman

4 3 3 Lorinery (Tack)

4 3 4 Masonry, Brick

4 3 5 Masonry, Stone

4 3 6 Mathematics, practical

4 4 1 Mediation

4 4 2 Meditation

4 4 3 Mercantile

4 4 4 Mid-Wifery

4 4 5 Military Culture

4 4 6 Miller, Grist

4 5 1 Miller, Hammer

4 5 2 Mining

4 5 3 Mortician

4 5 4 Musicianship

4 5 5 Navigation, Land

4 5 6 Navigation, Marine

4 6 1 Negotiation

4 6 2 Oration

4 6 3 Painting

4 6 4 Pandering/Pimping

4 6 5 Perception

4 6 6 Pheasant Plucker

5 1 1 Philosophy

5 1 2 Pickpocket

5 1 3 Piety

5 1 4 Plasterer

5 1 5 Poetry

5 1 6 Poisoner

5 2 1 Pottery

5 2 2 Poulterer

5 2 3 Preaching

5 2 4 Prospecting

5 2 5 Prostitute/Gigalo

5 2 6 Rat Catcher

5 3 1 Read Lips

5 3 2 Rhetoric

5 3 3 Rites & Rituals

5 3 4 Rowing

5 3 5 Sacred Tomes

5 3 6 Sailing

5 4 1 Sawyer

5 4 2 Scribe

5 4 3 Scullery

5 4 4 Sculpture

5 4 5 Seamanship

5 4 6 Seduction

5 5 1 Sewing

5 5 2 Shearer

5 5 3 Shipwright

5 5 4 Signalling

5 5 5 Singing

5 5 6 Skating

5 6 1 Skiing

5 6 2 Skrying

5 6 3 Sleight of Hand

5 6 4 Small Unit Tactics

5 6 5 Smelting

5 6 6 Smith, Fine Metal

6 1 1 Smuggling

6 1 2 Soapmaker

6 1 3 Spelunking

6 1 4 Spinning

6 1 5 Spycraft

6 1 6 Stalking

6 2 1 Stealth

6 2 2 Storytelling

6 2 3 Street Sense

6 2 4 Survival

6 2 5 Swimming

6 2 6 Tailor

6 3 1 Tanning

6 3 2 Taxidermy

6 3 3 Teaching/Tutoring

6 3 4 Teamster

6 3 5 Thatcher

6 3 6 Tiler

6 4 1 Tinkering

6 4 2 Torture

6 4 3 Tracking

6 4 4 Trading

6 4 5 Trapping

6 4 6 Traps - detect, disarm, set

6 5 1 Ventriloquism

6 5 2 Veterinarian

6 5 3 Vintner

6 5 4 Wagoner

6 5 5 Warrener

6 5 6 Weapon, Tourney

6 6 1 Weather

6 6 2 Weaving

6 6 3 Wheelwright

6 6 4 Woodworking

6 6 5 Wrestling, Tourney

6 6 6 Diabolism

[mahrundl]

Nice list!

While I understand why no list of Talents was provided when they were first introduced in 7th edition, to encourage people to come up with their own rather than thinking that they were limited to the list, I think that having a list like this is useful for the GM to help prompt the players when they are stuck on what to pick. It's also handy for assigning Talents to NPCs.

[etaion]

Aug 17, 2022 19:14:16 GMT -5 mahrundl said:

 ...encourage people to come up with their own rather than thinking that they were limited to the list, ... useful for the GM to help prompt the players when they are stuck...

That's the main intent. I give every new character one free talent/skill/occupation at Novice level (Journeyman for Commoners). 

It's something to help them determine what the character was doing before Fate turned them toward delving.

[nialldubh]

Aug 17, 2022 19:21:10 GMT -5 etaion said:

Aug 17, 2022 19:14:16 GMT -5 mahrundl said:

 ...encourage people to come up with their own rather than thinking that they were limited to the list, ... useful for the GM to help prompt the players when they are stuck...

That's the main intent. I give every new character one free talent/skill/occupation at Novice level (Journeyman for Commoners). 

It's something to help them determine what the character was doing before Fate turned them toward delving.

That a good idea, we cannot choose sometimes what we are born to be. The son of a carpenter, will be a carpenter 90% of the time...

Plus a free talent whether unrelated to delving, make the character more interesting even if he never get a chance to use it in an adventure. It makes him what he is... yehaaa!

[zanshin]

Love it, Exalt! Oh well, like

(Can we include in Trollszine 14?)

(Pretty please? sugar on top?)

[etaion]

Aug 18, 2022 8:53:50 GMT -5 zanshin said:

Love it, Exalt! Oh well, like

(Can we include in Trollszine 14?)

(Pretty please? sugar on top?)

Absolutely, but credit for the idea of a table of 216 randomized using 3d6 must go to W. Scott Grant who used the concept in his solo Final Exam. (I think that's the right one?)  -- EDIT:  Double-checked and it was Final Exam.  His treatment of talents greatly influenced my own system.

I used that concept, created a list of over 300 various medieval/fantasy occupations/skills and then cut it down to the 216.

I know there's at least one error on the list above (Tailor is on there twice).  Let me know the TZ14 deadline and I'll get you a cleaner list.

There is one inside joke on the list, Pheasant Plucking, which I'm slowly working into a solo (maybe for TZ 15?).

[zanshin]

Happy to accept that, perhaps you could credit sligo (W Scott Grant) in an intro for the inspiration?

Deadline maybe November 2022, if not later.

Solo, yes please

[etaion]

I'll get you something put together. I'm working on getting all of my House rules compiled in one document -- I really wish I'd kept better track of which edition/'zine article/adventure/etc. for everything made me go "oooh, I like that..."

[zanshin]

Aug 18, 2022 19:03:03 GMT -5 etaion said:

I'll get you something put together. I'm working on getting all of my House rules compiled in one document -- I really wish I'd kept better track of which edition/'zine article/adventure/etc. for everything made me go "oooh, I like that..."

Great. If you don't already have my email , PM me.

Looking forward to it.