backgrounds
backgrounds
Proficiency
Proficiency
Using Ability Scores
Using Ability Scores
initiative check
initiative check
critical fumble
critical fumble
critical success
critical success
Disadvantage
Disadvantage
Expertise Dice
Expertise Dice
Skills
Skills
While abilities provide broad descriptions of a character’s capabilities, a skill represents their training in a particular task such as Acrobatics or Deception. A character who has training in a skill is said to be proficient in it. Most skill proficiencies are acquired by adventurers during character creation from their choice of culture, background, and class.