This is your basic book learning, plus logic and reason. If a skill requires alertness, perception, quick wits, and generally being-on-the-ball it may be a Mind Skill.
Conceal
You can hide physical objects, including yourself or another person. This covers hiding a gun on your mule, not hiding money in a Sky Plex? bank account. If you're hiding a person, Conceal only works as long as you (or they) aren't moving.
| 10s | You never really understood Hide and Seek. |
| 20s | Your hiding options tend to "under the bed" and "in the underwear drawer". |
| 30s | You've purloined a letter or two. |
| 40s | You can outwit suspicious parents or your spouse. |
| 50s | Professional smuggler. |
| 60s | Professional smuggler with no jail time. |
| 70s | Misdirection, disguise, and subtlety are your most blatant tools. |
| 80s | You are a ninja. You might still have a weapon on you while stark naked. |
Education
It's hard to get through life without having learned something in school. If you have a skill indicating a college degree or substantial professional training, you can change Education to Philosophy, Medicine, History, or whatever other knowledge base you specialize in; its penumbra still serves for general knowledge checks.
| 10s | If you graduated high school, you did so with a C average. |
| 20s | You were a good student and might have finished college. |
| 30s | You graduated college with honors. |
| 40s | You probably have a masters degree. |
| 50s | You have a terminal degree or multiple masters degrees. |
| 60s | You are an acknowledged expert in your field. |
| 70s | You are known throughout the field. You can demand high fees as a consultant. |
| 80s | If lay folk know of your field at all, they know your name. |
Notice
Some people notice more things than others.
| 10s | You notice the obvious most of the time, but you're easily distracted. |
| 20s | You're about average. |
| 30s | You're pretty sharp. You can spot a toupee at 20 paces and type without errors. |
| 40s | You're remarkable perceptive, like a detective, pathologist, or archeologist. |
| 50s | You notice even tiny details - the one book that's upside-down in the shelf, etc. |
| 60s | You can hear a whisper twenty feet away on a still night. |
| 70s | You could trail a cat in a dark alley. |
| 80s | Sherlock Holmes |
Other Mind Skills
- Authority. In some situation and for some reason, you're in a position to tell people what to do and make them listen to you. Good for cops, criminals, priests, or other people with a command structure behind them.
- Photographic Memory and/or Eidetic Memory.
- Others
- Mechanics, Biology, Locksmith, Medicine, Strategy & Planning, Physics, Psychotherapy
