Skills and Pseudo-Skill Basic Descriptions

Skill	Equipment	Short Description	Associated Non-Weapon Proficiency	EEex
Apothecary	-	Treat Poisons and disease	Herbalism	No^
Appraisal	All	Lore	None	Yes
Applied Force	-	Increase Chance to force open doors	None	No^
Arcana	Scrolls	Increased scribe spells chance (?), bonus to Dispel	Spellcraft	No^
Balance	-	Avoid falling (e.g. grease)	Tumble?	No^
Barter	All	Reduced Prices at stores	Persuasion	No^
Brew Potion	Potions	Create potions	Alchemy/Herbalism	No*
Craft Wand	Wands	Create Wands	Implements	No*
Creature Lore	-	Know infos about enemies	?	No*
Deflect Arrow	-	Avoid Ranged Attacks	?	No^
Demoralize	-	intimidate enemy	Persuasion	No^
Disrupt Magic	-	Disrupt Casting/Mag. effects	None	No^
Hide in Natural Settings	-	Hide in Nat. Environment	Survival(?), N. Lore(?)	No*
Escape Artist	-	Escape certain restraining effects (e.g. web)	Tumble or Athletics	No*
Fletch	Projectiles	Create Ammos	Craft(?)	No^
Incite	-	Incite Rage in self or others	None	No^
Lock Pick	-	Lock Pick (+/-) as thief	None	Yes
Play Instrument	Instruments	Play Instrument	Persuasion(?), Performance(?)	No^
Recharge Wand	Wands	Recharge Wands	Implements	No*
Religion	-	Improved turning (and/or ability to turn or do more w/turning)	?	No^
Repair	All	Repair and (possibly) upgrade mundane equipment	?	No*
Resist Magic	-	Resist magic (positive and negative)	None	No*
Running	-	Increase Movement	Endurance	Yes^
Scribe Scroll	Scrolls	Create Scrolls	Spellcraft	No*
Second Wind	-	Recover Stamina/HP	Endurance	Yes^^^
Search	-	Search (+/-) as thief	None	Yes
Sense Evil Presence	-	Works like Thief's Detect Illusion	None	No^
Set Natural Snare	-	Set Snare in Nat. Environment	Survival(?), N. Lore(?)	No
Set Snare	Traps**	Set Snare as Thief	None	No
Taunt	-	Enrage enemy	Persuasion	No
Tracking	-	Track as HLA	Survival(?)	No^
Treat Wounds	-	Heal	Heal, Herbalism	No^
Use Magical Device	Wands	Effectively Use Wands	Implements	No^
Use Poison	-	Effectively Use Poison	Herbalism	No^
Use Scroll	Scrolls	Effectively Use Scrolls	Spellcraft(?)	No^
Wild Empathy	-	Calm/Charm Animals and Beasts	Nature Lore(?)	No^

Skill: The name of the skill or pseudo-skill
Equipment: Equipment the skill is associated with, if any.
Short Description: A short description of the skill
Associated Non-Weapon Proficiency: The non-weapon proficiency this skill is associated (see the Proficiencies mod), if any.
EEex: This column denotes dependence on EEex for functionality. See the following table for entries and their meanings:

Entry	Meaning
Yes	EEex is required for this skill
No	EEex is not required for this skill
No^	No, but at least some versions of this skill require EEex
No*	No, but EEex is recommended

Skill List

Skill	Possible Classes
Apothecary	Rogues (all), Mages (all), Priests (all)
Applied Force	Warriors (all), Thieves, Thugs, Monks
Appraisal	Rogues (all), Mages (all), Clerics and Monks
Arcana	Bards, Mages (all)
Balance	Rogues (all), Rangers
Barter	Rogues (all)
Brew Potion	Bards, Mages (all), Priests (all)
Craft Wand	Bards, Mages (all), Priests (all)
Creature Lore	Rogues (all), Mages (all), Priests (all), Rangers
Deflect Arrow	Monks
Demoralize	Warriors(all), Rogues (all)
Disrupt Magic	Inquisitors, Wizard Slayers
Hide in Natural Settings	Barbarians, Rangers^
Escape Artist	Thieves, Monks
Fletch	Fighters, Rangers
Incite	Barbarians, Berserkers, Clerics of Tempus, Shamans
Lock Pick	Bards
Play Instrument	Rogues (all)
Recharge Wand	Bards, Mages (all), Priests (all)
Religion	Clerics, Paladins
Repair	Fighters
Resist Magic	Wizard Slayer, Inquisitor
Running	Warriors (all), Rogues (all)
Scribe Scroll	Bards, Mages (all), Priests (all)
Second Wind	Warriors (all)
Search	All
Sense Evil Presence	Paladins
Set Natural Snare	Barbarians, Rangers
Set Snare	??
Taunt	Rogues(all)
Tracking	Fighters, Rangers
Treat Wounds	Warriors (all), Priests (all)
Use Magical Device	Rogues (all)
Use Poison	Thieves
Use Scroll	Rogues (all)
Wild Empathy	Barbarians, Druids, Rangers

^ Rangers get a number of options
Skill: The name of the skill or pseudo-skill
Possible Classes: The classes this skill is (potentially) available to.

Skills & Abilities

The purpose of this mod is to add more skills and abilities for players and NPCs. This mod offers the following:

1. New and revised thief skills. Note that EEex is highly recommended for any and all skill additions. Even where it is possible to simulate a skill without EEex, it is usually better implemented with EEex installed.
2. New and revised special abilities, including high level abilities.

Components Overview

Skills & Abilities: 0001 - ???: Main Component

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Special Note: EEex

This mod does not require EEex , but many of the components will either work best with EEex installed, or will unfortunately be dependent on EEex (because there is no other reasonable way to implement the component). As such, I encourage you to click on the link and install EEex if you are able.

Components Overview

B_Kits: 0001 - ???: Class Revisions

Class revisions alter existing classes in some manner, as opposed to adding kits or interchangeable class features. Class features themselves are divided into 'Conservative' and 'Radical' versions of a given class/kit structure. This mod tries, as much as possible, to allow players to mix and match conservative and radical versions together. So, for example, a player could install conservative fighter revisions with radical bard revisions. However, players should be warned that there might be balance issues, especially when the various class features are added to the mix. We cannot account for everything. That said, we will try to note where balance issues might exist, both here and in individual class sections below.

Known Issues (Class Revisions):

B_Kits: 1001 - ???: Expanded Abilities and Attributes

This group of components modify special abilities, especially 'skill-like', special abilities or make attributes (especially non physical attributes) more meaningful by granting modifiers to abilities and skills based on the characters attribute scores. For components that convert certain abilities to skills, see the following section (Expanded Skills). Note that these components are virtually identical to those in Skills & Proficiencies and thus will not install if they are already installed by that mod (and vice versa).

Known Issues (Expanded Abilities and Attributes):

• ???: Attributes: Illusion immunity for high int: This component changes Shadow Creatures to Illusory creatures allowing players to bypass the normal limits on summoned monsters (i.e. they will be able to summon the maximum plus any creatures summoned by these summon spells.)

B_Kits: 2001 - ???: Expanded Skills

Heavily inspired by OlvynChuru's epic thieving mod, and largely impossible without OlvynChuru's contributions to EEex, these components seek to expand rogue skills in some way, whether by allowing choice where there wasn't choice before, by expanding what a player can do with their skills (or both), or even restricting a skill or skill-like ability in some way.

This group of components adds (thief-like) class skills to the game or modifies class skill points to be distributed differently, or allows other classes to perform them where possible.

Note

These components are virtually identical to those in Skills & Proficiencies and thus will not install if they are already installed by that mod (and vice versa).

Note: Skill Point Distribution

Many of these components give skills to classes that either already have at least one skill, or that do not normally have any skills at all. In any case where a given kit or class has exactly one skill, they will gain points to that skill at a set rate by level. However, wherever a given kit or class gains two or more skills, or where they gain at least one skill where they already have at least one skill, they can distribute skills as a thief. This rate is set by class or kit, and does not change by the number of skills that they have, so the character may have to specialize. The rate at which kits or classes gain skill points is determined by the table below. Note that any mod kits will have the same skill point distribution as the base class if they are not specifically mentioned (let me know if there are any kit mods that need special attention).

Also, magic item creation skills do not count toward this limit.

Thieves actually gain a few more skill points if they gain access to any of the new offered skills. If they gain even a single skill described in this section, they will gain skill points at the increased rate below:

Kit/Class	Single Skill	Skill Points at 1st Level	Skill Points gained per Level
Ranger (all)	See Stealth	30	15
Base Fighter	5/Level	20	10
Barbarian	8/Level	30	15
Berserker	5/Level	20	10
Kensai	5/Level	20	10
Wizard Slayer	8/Level	30	10
Defender	5/Level	20	10
Base Thief	NA	50	30
Shadowdancer	NA	35	20
Assassin	NA	50	20
Bounty Hunter	NA	50	25
Swashbuckler	NA	50	30
Base Bard	See P. Pocket	30	20
Multiclass Thief	NA	50	30
Skald	See P. Pocket	20	10
Jester	See P. Pocket	30	20
Blade	See P. Pocket	20	10
Monk (all)	NA	10	15
Druid (all)	4/level	15	10
Mages (all)	1/level	0	5
Cleric (all)	1/level	0	5

Single Skill: Skill advancement if (and only if) the class has a single skill.
Skill Points at 1st Level: Skill % at first level iff they can distribute points.
Skill Points gained per Level: Skill % gained each level after first iff they can distribute points.

Known Issues (Expanded Skills):

• EEex expanded skills in BGEE: These components may not work properly in non-SOD BGEE. This is an EEex issue, and cannot be fixed on my end (er, I don't know how to fix it).

• Thief Skills: Use Scrolls:

• 'Component 1901: Use scrolls - 10th level' will not display for a character created in Throne of Bhaal. The skill will display upon level up, however.

• 'Component 1902: Use scrolls - no level requirement' is likely overpowered. Use at your discretion.

B_Kits: 3001-???: Thief skills for regular Joes

This group of components give thief skills to non-thief characters (as much as possible). For the most part, it does not give all thief skills to all characters, but where thematically appropriate or where there is a reasonable pnp precedent, I will try to implement it (let me know if you have any ideas!) Many of these skills are limited in some manner, and a few of these components even limit current skill usage. For example, the Hide in Natural Surroundings components only allow a character to hide outdoors. That's useful, to be sure, but less useful than the full thief skill.

The general description of each component can be found below. For a more in depth description of each, see the following sections.

Note

These components are virtually identical to those in Skills & Proficiencies and thus will not install if they are already installed by that mod (and vice versa).

Known Issues (Thief skills for regular Joes):

B_Kits: 4001- ???: Magic Item Creation

This group of components deal with magic item creation and recharging. These components allow players to create scrolls, potions and wands, and they allow players to recharge wands. There are a number of different creation subsystems for each, and users can install different subsystems for different items. These components can also interact with the proficiency system (see below for details).

This component adds new magic items, and item creation.
The general description of each component can be found below. For a more in depth description of each, see the following sections.

Note

The added items are identical to those added by Spells and Magic and Proficiencies. However, consumable magic items--in particular scrolls and wands--work slightly differently in these three mods. These mods are completely compatible, however, and any changes will be noted in the description.

Known Issues (Magic Item Creation):

B_Kits: 5001 - ???: High Level Abilities

This group of components deal with high level abilities, either adding new HLAs, modifying existing HLAs, or both.

Known Issues (High Level Abilities):

B_Kits: 6001 - ???: Limitations

This group of components actually reduce player ability in some way. They are intended to be installed with the above enhancement components, in order to preserve some kind of balance. However, they can be installed without the bonuses, or not at all as you prefer.

Note

These components are virtually identical to those in Skills & Proficiencies and thus will not install if they are already installed by that mod (and vice versa).

Known Issues (Limitations):

B_Kits: 7001 - ???: 'Extras'

This group of components installs extra features that didn't seem to fit any other categories.

Known Issues ('Extras'):

Skills & Proficiencies: ??? - ???: Mundane

This group of components deal with useful, but largely non-magical gear. Many of these items are intended to interact with the other components in this mod, but they all should still be useful even if no other components are installed.

The general description of each component can be found in the table below. For a more in depth description of each, see the following section.

New and Revised Items

Item	Use	Uses	Weight	Cost
Alchemist Kit	allows additional uses of craft alchemical item ability	2	8	50 gp
Alcohol	Create firebomb w/tinderbox; drunk immune to fear^^	1	Varies	Varies
Area Map	opens up areas on the map to explore	-	0	Varies (300 gp standard)
Armor Spikes	when attackers hit cre with unarmed or natural attacks, save vs wand or take 1 piercing dam (cloak slot)	-	0	50 gp
Backpack, Masterwork	allows characters to carry extra med/small items		4	150 gp
Bandoleer	carries extra knives or ammo	-	4	1 gp
Blindfold	make self blind (can be used on helpless enemies)	-	0	2 gp
Boots, Soft	+1 Move	-	1	5 gp
Bottle	used to craft potions or holy water	1	2	2 gp
Bracers	+1 AC vs. Melee attacks	-	1	7 gp
Camo Paint	give +5% hide outdoors	5	1	20 gp
Case, Bolt	Hold x-bow bolts	-	1	1 gp
Case, Scroll	Hold scrolls/maps	-	1	1 gp
Crowbar	give +10% to force open container	10^	5	2 gp
Earplugs	Make self deaf (can be used on helpless enemies)	-	0	1 gp
Flour, Bag	Reveal Invisible 5' rad	1	5	1 gp
Follower, Basic	Carries Loot	-	-	2 gp/Day
Follower, Chaplin or Hedge Wizard	Casts spells	-	-	25 gp/Day
Follower, Mercenary	Fights	-	-	5 gp/Day
Gag	Silence effect (can be used on helpless enemies)	-	0	1 gp
Grooming Kit	+1 Cha 1 hour	5	0	100 gp
Dog, Guard	Loyal Pet	-	-	25 gp
Dye	Changes cloths to a diff color	10	-	25 gp
Healers Kit	Extra treat injuries uses	5	1	100 gp
Herbalist's Kit	Extra treat affliction uses	5	1	300 gp
Holy Symbol, Good	Undead sv wands or run. Good only	1/day	0	100 gp
Holy Symbol, Evil	Undead sv wands or run. Evil only	1/day	0	100 gp
Holy Symbol, Neutral	Undead sv wands or run. Neutral only	1/day	0	100 gp
Holy Text	Learn unique spells		1	varies
Holy Symbol	+1 Turn	-	1	20 gp
Holy Water	See Description	-	1	25 gp
Ink, Exotic	Create Scroll	100	-	2000 gp
Ink, Rare	Create Scroll	100	-	1000 gp
Ink, Rare/Exotic	Create Scroll	100	-	5000 gp
Lock picks, Masterwork	+15% pick picks (req 40+% lock pick skill)	-	0	500 gp
Lore Book, [Creature Type]	gives bonus to fight cre type	-	5	Varies, 25 gp+
Magnifying Glass	+10 Lore (but req min of 10 lore)	-	1	100 gp
Make-Up	+1 Charisma, 3 hours	10	1	50 gp
Mask	Intimidate	-	1	50 gp
Mask, Filtered	Intimidate; resist airborne toxins	-	1	300 gp
Nobel's Attire	+2 Cha, disguise self as noble	-	9	400 gp
Notebook	Recipes for reference	-
Oil	Coat on ground (grease like spell), which also does extra fire dam. Create 'fire bombs' w/tinderbox	1	1	20 gp
Pack Animal	Carries Load	-	-	400 gp
Paper, Quality	Create Scroll	10	-	200 gp
Papyrus, Quality	Create Scroll	10	-	80 gp
Parchment, Quality	Create Scroll	10	-	100 gp
Potion Bottle	Create Potion/Holy Water	1	0	10 gp
Quiver	Hold arrows	-	1	1 gp
Ram, Portable	Bonus to bash doors/chests (as str+4)	-	35	100 gp
Robe, Padded	AC: 9	-	5 lbs.	30 gp
Robe, Shadowsilk	+10% Hide	-	4 lbs.	35 gp
Pet	-	-	-	8 gp
Pouch	allows characters to carry extra small items	-	1	1 gp
Poll, Collapsible (10-Ft.)	Chance to detect/set off traps	5^	7	25 gp
Quill, Quality	Create Scroll	10	-	100 gp
Rats, Bag	Release rats that set off traps in area	1	10	5 gp
Rope, Hemp	Tie up Disabled Enemies	1	20	1 gp
Rope, Silk	Tie up Disabled Enemies	1	8	10 gp
Thieves Tools, Masterwork	+15% detect/disable traps (req 40+% lock pick skill)	-	1	500 gp
Tinderbox	Create firebomb (with oil)	20^	1	25 gp
Trap: Ball Bearings	Set Traps	1	2	1 gp
Trap: Basic	See Description	1	3	50 gp
Trap: Caltrops	Set Traps	1	2	1 gp
Trap: Standard	See Description	1	3	300 gp
^ May break. See item description.
^^ New use(s)

Weapon and Armor: Upgrades

Upgrade	Type	Effect	Weight	Cost
Silver Plating	Any Weapon	Hit Were Creature	-	+50 gp

Weapon and Armor: Variant Materials

Upgrade	Type	Effect	Weight	Cost
Bone Armor	Medium or Heavy Armor	-2 Pen to AC, Opponents -2 Save Fear effects	Same	Same