Player's Option: Skills & Powers

Player's Option: Skills & Powers is a 2^nd-edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons accessory.

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These pages hold the keys to humans who spot secret doors as easily as do elves, thieves who sense illusions, half-ogre sword masters, and a multitude of other unique characters.

PLAYER'S OPTION Rulebooks present an alternative approach to AD&D characters. Custom-craft your next PC, selecting the profession, skills, and abilities you want! Characters can even have additional ability scores such as Stamina, Muscle, Balance, and others. New proficiencies, talents and updated psionics round out the PLAYER'S OPTION character.

Be ready for anything with Skills & Powers!

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Description[]

Player's Option: Skills & Powers introduces comprehensive modifications to character creation and development by incorporating a new "character point" system. Players utilize these points to acquire abilities for their characters, contingent upon the sufficiency of points available and the compatibility of the ability with the character's class and race.

The supplement revises the method for generating the six fundamental ability scores, offering players options to adjust these scores post-creation. Each ability score is further divided into two sub-statistics, enabling characters to specialize more deeply by modifying these sub-scores; increasing one at the expense of the other.

Player's Option: Skills & Powers enriches character backstory development with a variety of tools including a table that helps determine the inciting event that led each character into adventuring. It also introduces "character kits," which are thematic packages that establish a character's social rank and modify their abilities accordingly. The book significantly expands the magical framework of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons by introducing four new schools of magic and revising the psionics system.

The text is structured into nine chapters, preceded by a foreword from authors Niles and Donovan. Chapter One discusses the mechanics of the character points system. Chapter Two elaborates on the division of ability scores into subabilities. Chapter Three examines racial prerequisites for character classes. Chapter Four details modifications to how character classes function within this new system. Chapter Five offers thirty different character kits for detailed character customization. Chapter Six outlines the application of nonweapon proficiencies in gameplay. Chapter Seven explores advanced weapon proficiency and mastery. Chapter Eight introduces five new schools of magic, expanding upon the previous count. Chapter Nine provides a comprehensive update on psionics.

The supplement concludes with an appendix consolidating various tables used throughout the book and an index.

Contents[]

Chapter 1: Character Points
Chapter 2: Ability Scores
Chapter 3: Racial Requirements
Chapter 4: Character CLasses
Chapter 5: Character Kits
Chapter 6: Nonweapon Proficiencies
Chapter 7: Weapon Proficiency and Mastery
Chapter 8: New Schools of Magic
Chapter 9: Psionics
Appendix: Compiled Tables
Index

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Credits[]

Design: Douglas Niles and Dale A Donovan
Psionics Design: Bill Slavicsek and Dale A Donovan
Development and Editing: Jean Rabe
Design Contributions: Rich Baker, Skip Williams
Editing Contribution: Dori Hein
Project Coordinator: Steve Winter
Typography: Angelika Lokotz
Graphic Design: Dee Barnett
Production: Paul Hanchette
Cover Art: Jeff Easley
Interior Art: Thomas Baxa, Doug Chaffee, Les Doncheid, Jeff Easley, Ken Frank, Eric Hotz
Thanks to: Wolf Bur, Tim Beach, Michele Carter, Roger E. Moore

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References[]

↑ Douglas Niles. Player's Options: Skills & Powers (2e). Dungeon Masters Guild. Retrieved on 2013-30-10.

[1] Douglas Niles. Player's Options: Skills & Powers (2e). Dungeon Masters Guild. Retrieved on 2013-30-10.

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