Skills

This setting uses mostly the default skill list from Fate Core, plus the Science! skill detailed here.

Science!

The Science! skill is about researching the laws of nature and warping them.

Actions

Overcome

You can use Science! to research new scientific facts; note that this doesn’t include reading already discovered theories, that would be Lore (but Lore can be used to Create an Advantage for a Science! Overcome: having a good background will help a lot in discovering new things).

Create an Advantage

Science! will give a lot of opportunities to create advantages: inventing new devices, reverse-engineering existing ones to be able to use them or even to improve and turn them to new uses.

Attack

Science! is probably not directly used to attack, unless a player gets really creative.

Defend

Science! is not directly used to defend, either, barring exceptional creativity.

Lore stunts

Default skill list

See the Fate Core manual for details on the default skills; these are a few setting-specific notes.

Crafts

This involves all traditional crafts and mainteinance of “modern” machinery, but obviously not the invention of new ones, as that’s in the scope of Science!.

Drive

For simplicity, this skill applies to all kinds of moving things including riding animals, horse-driven coaches / carriages and self-propelled creation of Science!.

If relevant for your game feel free to split this into multiple skills as needed.

Lore

Lore involves all aspects of knowledge and education that are not related to scientific research, including the humanities, but also passive knowledge of scientific discoveries.

Lore also defines what languages a character speaks and writes.

Terrible (-2)

just the most local and least prestige language of the place they live in, and no literacy; e.g. in Como this would be spoken Western Lombard.

Poor (-1)

all of the local languages of the place they live in, with limited literacy; e.g. in Como this would be Western Lombard and Italian.

Mediocre (+0)

as Poor, but including reading and writing at a reasonably competent level.

Average (+1)

the above, plus French (the common language of commerce, enabling conversations with an international audience).

Fair (+2)

the above, plus Latin (the language of scientific publications).

Good (+3)

the above, plus a number of European (plus Hebrew and Arabic) languages; these can be decided during the game, as they are needed.

Great (+4)

the above, plus a number of reasonably accessible non European languages (e.g. Hindustani or Chinese, not the language spoken by an insulated tribe somewhere in Amazonia)

Superb (+5) and above

the above, plus any exotic language the player may come up with.