Hobby Skill

Many fields of study have little to
do with adventuring or making a liv-
ing – but people study them nonethe-
less. Each of these is a separate Hobby
Skill. Those that require agility or a
delicate touch (e.g., juggling, kite fly-
ing, needlepoint, and origami) are
DX/Easy skills that default to DX-4,
while those that focus on knowledge
and trivia (e.g., comic books, rock
music, science fiction, and tropical
fish) are IQ/Easy skills that default to
IQ-4.
A few points in a Hobby Skill can
make roleplaying more fun – and pos-
sibly come in handy once in a while.
You do not need a teacher to learn or
improve a Hobby Skill. However, you
cannot learn skills defined elsewhere
in this chapter as Hobby Skills.