In Canis, you can earn skills for your character by demonstrating their ability to do things related to the skill! Skills are a way to recognize in character efforts, plus:
To earn a skill, your character must first demonstrate the base knowledge of a skill. Skill Points are earned for each post from your character that shows the skill. Each post can earn 1 point, with a maximum of 5 points per thread. While each post can only be used for one skill, you may use the thread to get points for up to two skills. The points for a thread you earn in total will never exceed 5.
To earn your skill points, you'll need to do the following:
Examples of actions: (Medic skill)
Most skills are part of a skill tree and need to be earned in sequence as the character demonstrates more specialized or advanced knowledge.
Base skills are the main trees that other skills are part of. To demonstrate base skills, you'll need 20 points.
These are more advanced and specialized skills and can only be earned once the base skill is earned. Earning specialty skills will require your character to demonstrate the specialized skill, not just the base skill. You'll need another 25 points for specialty skills.
When your character has become proficient to the point of being very advanced at their skill, they can earn expert skills. Characters have several options to gain an expert skill:
It's usually easier to earn multiple specialty skills before obtaining expert skills, but certain skill trees vary.
Some skills don't fit anywhere else. These skills sit in a miscellaneous category and don't need a base skill to be earned. An example is the Hoarder skill. There are specialty skills that can build off of certain misc. skills, and some of them are precursors for combination skills. To earn a miscellaneous skill, you'll need 25 points.
To earn an expert misc skill, characters must:
Some skills from different trees can be combined to create combination skills. An example of this is the Pharmacist skill, which requires both Herbalism (specialty) and Medic (base). To earn a combination skill, you'll first need to earn the prerequisite skills and demonstrate the combination skill with another 25 points.
To earn an expert combo skill, characters must:
In most cases, an expert level of these combo skills are the most difficult to earn.