Fantasy Skills: A Role Playing Game Supplement Paperback – October 5, 2025

This volume defines the complete framework of skill use within any role playing game but intended for the Oasis System. It presents every discipline—physical, intellectual, spiritual, and magical—with consistent standards for task resolution, tool interaction, and situational application. Each entry provides governing attribute, procedural use, and cross-references for synergy with related abilities.The format supports both structured and narrative play. Game Masters may rely on these entries to adjudicate tasks under pressure, while players can employ them to expand character capability and creative problem-solving. Critical results, environmental modifiers, and tool-based advantages are standardized to ensure uniform interpretation across campaigns.The magical disciplines integrate seamlessly with existing mechanics. Transmutation, Illusion, Enchantment, and related magical skills are defined alongside their physical and mental counterparts, allowing supernatural effects to be resolved by the same procedural logic as mundane actions.Series Notes:In the late 1990s while taking an M.A. and Ph.D. in History / Communication with a specialized focus in technology, Nelson McKeeby, wrote around 70 monographs on a Macintosh Classic computer using WriteNow and Nisus Writer, in a range of subjects but with a couple of clusters, including the technology of the Civil War, World War One, World War Two, and the Cold War. At 35,000 words each they were mind numbingly boring documented essays with hand drawings often cribbed from sources like NARA. They were printed out on an old Laser Writer II, photocopied, bound in simple covers, and given away in history conferences, NAB, to people sitting at bus stops, to tourists on the national mall, and to hitchhikers in Goffstown, New Hampshire. He abandoned them when marriage and the War on Terror demanded his attention elsewhere.Among those historical works were a large set of useful gaming supplements.Recently a colleague was able to use a program called BBEdit to save the documents and I was able to, using modern technology, reformat these papers into modern popular books. These books are offered cubically for the first time in a popular format. Read more