NON-WEAPON PROFICIENCIES This is a list of the Non-Weapon Proficiencies published by TSR (R) for AD&D (TM) 2nd Ed. They are compiled from the _Player's Handbook_, the Player's Handbook Reference series, and a few other sources. For complete desciptions of the proficiencies and how they work, please refer to the various books themselves. Where conflicting information has been published, the most recent version of the Proficiency is cited. In the case of Proficiencies unique to the 1st Edition _Oriental Adventures_ book, attempts have been made to translate these to 2nd Ed terms. This, however, is purely this author's interpretation of the Proficiency. In the case of Proficiencies unique to the _Player's Option: Skills and Powers_ handbook, Attributes have been adjusted for those not using the secondary, derived attributes presented in that book. This document is intended as an index for quick reference only. AD&D (TM) is a trademark of TSR (R) Inc. WORKS CONSULTED AH _The Age of Heroes_ AQ _Al-Qadim Arabian Adventures_ Bb _The Complete Barbarian's Handbook_ CB _The Complete Bard's Handbook_ CH _The Complete Book of Humanoids_ CN _The Complete Book of Necromancers_ CR _The Complete Ranger's Handbook_ CS _The Complete Sha'ir's Handbook_ CT _The Complete Theif's Handbook_ Dw _The Complete Book of Dwarves_ GR _The Glory of Rome_ OA _Oriental Adventures_ Nj _The Complete Ninja's Handbook_ Pn _The Complete Paladin's Handbook_ Ps _The Complete Psionics Handbook_ PW _Planewalkers' Handbook_ SP _Player's Option: Skills and Powers_ SS _Sages and Specialists_ LAST UPDATED 6 SEPTEMBER 1996 NWPs by GROUP Format: Name/# slots/Attribute/Modifier/Source GENERAL Acting 1 CHARISMA -1 CB Alertness 1 WISDOM +1 Sh Agriculture 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Animal Handling 1 WISDOM -1 Animal Rending 1 DEXTERITY +2 Bb Animal Training 1 WISDOM 0 Artistic Ability 1 WISDOM 0 Athletics 1 DEXTERITY -1 AH Begging 1 CHARISMA Sp. CT Blacksmithing 1 STRENGTH 0 Boat Piloting 1 STRENGTH 0 SP Boating 2 WISDOM +1 Sh Boatwright 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Dw Brewing 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Calligraphy 2 DEXTERITY -2 OA Carpentry 1 STRENGTH 0 Cartography 1 INTELLIGENCE -2/0 SS Caving 2 WISDOM var. SS Chanting 1 CHARISMA +2 CB Chaos Shaping 1 WISDOM 0 PW Cheesemaking 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 CH City Familiarity 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Nj Clothesmaking, Crude 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Bb Cobbling 1 DEXTERITY 0 Concocting 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 SS Cooking 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Craft Instrument 2 DEXTERITY -2 CB Crowd Working 1 CHARISMA 0 CB Dancing 1 DEXTERITY 0 Danger Sense 2 WISDOM +1 CH Debate 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Deep Diving 2 WISDOM -2 SP Direction Sense 1 WISDOM +1 Distance Sense 1 WISDOM 0 CR Drinking 1 CONSTITUTION 0 CH Eating 1 CONSTITUTION 0 CH Etiquette 1 CHARISMA 0 Falconry 1 WISDOM -1 CR Fire-Building 1 WISDOM -1 Fishing 1 WISDOM -1 Flower Arranging 1 WISDOM 0 OA Foraging 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Sh Fortune Telling 2 CHARISMA +2 Fungi Recognition 1 INTELLIGENCE +3 Dw Gaming 1 CHARISMA 0 Geography 1 or 2 INTELLIGENCE -1 Sh Haggling 2 WISDOM 0 AQ Heraldry 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Hiding 2 INTELLIGENCE -1 CH Landscape Gardening 1 WISDOM -1 OA Languages, Modern 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Leather Working 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Looting 1 DEXTERITY 0 Masseur 1 DEXTERITY 0 OA Medium 2 WISDOM 0 Sh Metalworking 1 DEXTERITY 0 AQ Military Science 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 GR Mining 2 WISDOM -3 Musical Instrument 1 DEXTERITY -1 Noh 1 CHARISMA -1 OA Observation 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 CT Oratory 1 CHARISMA -1 AH Orienteering 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Origami 1 DEXTERITY 0 Painting 1 DEXTERITY -1 SP Persuasion 1 CHARISMA 0 CR Philosophy 1 WISDOM -1 AH Planar Direction Sense 1 WISDOM +1 PW Planar Sense 1 WISDOM -1 PW Planar Survival 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 PW Poetry 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Politics 1 CHARISMA 0 GR Portal Feel 2 INTELLIGENCE -3/-5 PW Pottery 1 DEXTERITY -2 Prophecy 1 WISDOM -2 SS Rhetoric 1 CHARISMA 0 GR Riding, Airborne 2 WISDOM -2 Riding, Land-based 1 WISDOM +3 Riding, Sea-based 2 DEXTERITY -2 CR Rope Use 1 DEXTERITY 0 Rowing 1 STRENGTH -1 AH Sculpting 1 DEXTERITY 0 SP Seamanship 1 DEXTERITY +1 Seamstress/Tailor 1 DEXTERITY -1 Sign Language 1 INTELLIGENCE +2 Signalling 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 CR Silk Making 1 DEXTERITY -2 OA Singing 1 CHARISMA 0 Slow Respiration 1 NA NA Smelting 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Sound Analysis 1 WISDOM 0 Sound Imitation 2 CHARISMA -2 OA Stonemasonry 1 STRENGTH -2 Swimming 1 STRENGTH 0 Tattooing 1 DEXTERITY 0 Tea Ceremony 2 WISDOM -2 OA Voice Mimicry 2 CHARISMA Sp. CT Weapon Improvisation 1 WISDOM -1 Bb Weather Sense 1 WISDOM -1 Weaving 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Whistling/Humming 1 DEXTERITY +2 CB Winemaking 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 CH PRIEST Ancient Geography 1 or 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Sh Ancient History 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Anatomy 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 CN Astrology 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Bureaucracy 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Pn Diagnostics 1 WISDOM -1 Pn Dream Interpretation 2 WISDOM -1 Sh Engineering 2 INTELLIGENCE -3 Genie Lore 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 AQ Healing 2 WISDOM -2 Herbalism 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Languages, Ancient 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Law 1 WISDOM 0 Pn Local History 1 CHARISMA 0 Navigation 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Necrology 1 WISDOM 0 CN Netherworld Knowledge 1 WISDOM -3 CN Omen Interpretation 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Sh Planology 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 PW Reading/Writing 1 INTELLIGENCE +1 Religion 1 WISDOM 0 Shamanic Ritual 1 WISDOM +1 Sh Soothsaying 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Bb Spellcraft 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Spell Recovery 2 INTELLIGENCE -5 PW Spirit Lore 2 CHARISMA -4 CN Spirit Lore 1 WISDOM +2 Sh Trance 2 CONSTITUTION -3 Sh Undead Knowledge 1 WISDOM 0 CS Venom Handling 1 WISDOM -2 CN Vetinary Healing 1 WISDOM -3 CR PSIONICIST Gem Cutting 2 DEXTERITY -2 Ps Harness Subconscious 2 WISDOM -1 Ps Hypnosis 1 CHARISMA -2 Ps Meditative Focus 1 WISDOM +1 Ps Reading/Writing 1 INTELLIGENCE +1 Ps Rejuvenation 1 WISDOM -1 Ps Religion 1 WISDOM 0 Ps ROGUE Ancient History 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Animal Noise 1 WISDOM -1 CT Appraising 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Assimilation 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Nj Awareness 2 WISDOM 0 AQ Bartering 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Begging 1 CHARISMA Sp. CT Blind-Fighting 2 NA NA Bureaucracy 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Pn Camouflage 1 WISDOM 0 CR Chicanery 1 DEXTERITY -1 AH Close-quarters Fighting 2 DEXTERITY 0 CH Detect Signing 1 INTELLIGENCE +1 Nj Disguise 1 CHARISMA -1 Enamour 1 CHARISMA -2 Nj Endurance 2 CONSTITUTION 0 Escape 2 DEXTERITY 0 Nj Fast-Talking 1 CHARISMA Sp. CT Feign/Detect Sleep 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Nj Forgery 1 DEXTERITY -1 Gem Cutting 2 DEXTERITY -2 Giant Kite Flying 1 DEXTERITY -3 Nj Grooming 2 DEXTERITY 0 AQ Herbalism 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Hold Breath 1 CONSTITUTION 0 Nj Hunting 1 WISDOM -1 Information Gathering 1 INTELLIGENCE Sp. CT Intimidation 1 STR/CHA Sp. CT Juggling 1 DEXTERITY -1 Jumping 1 STRENGTH 0 Local History 1 CHARISMA 0 Locksmithing 1 DEXTERITY 0 Navigation 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Night Vision 1 WISDOM -2 Nj Pest Control 1 WISDOM 0 Dw Quick Study 2 Varies -3 Nj Reading Lips 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Reading/Writing 1 INTELLIGENCE +1 Riding, Horse Spec. 2 WISDOM +2 AQ Riding, Camel Spec. 2 WISDOM +2 AQ Set Snares 1 DEXTERITY -1 Survival 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Tightrope Walking 1 DEXTERITY 0 Toxicology 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Nj Tracking 2 WISDOM 0 Trailing 1 DEXTERITY Sp. CT Trail Signs 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 CR Tumbling 1 DEXTERITY 0 Underclass 1 WISDOM 0 Nj Ventriloquism 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Water Walking 1 DEXTERITY -1 Nj WARRIOR Animal Lore 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Armourer 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Armourer, Crude 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Bb Awareness 2 WISDOM 0 AQ Blind-Fighting 2 NA NA Bowyer/Fletcher 1 DEXTERITY -1 Bowyer/Fletcher, Crude 1 DEXTERITY 0 Bb Camouflage 1 WISDOM 0 CR Charioteering 1 DEXTERITY +2 Close-quarters Fighting 2 DEXTERITY 0 CH Display Weapon Prowess 1 DEXTERITY 0 AQ Endurance 2 CONSTITUTION 0 Horde Summoning 2 CHARISMA -2 Bb Hunting 1 WISDOM -1 Iaijutsu 1 NA NA OA Intimidation 1 STR/CHA Sp. CT Jousting 1 DEXTERITY +2 Pn Law 1 WISDOM 0 Pn Leadership 1 CHARISMA 0 Bb Light Sleeping 1 CONSTITUTION -1 Bb Mountaineering 1 NA NA Natural Fighting 2 STRENGTH +1 CH Navigation 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Riding, Horse Spec. 2 WISDOM +2 AQ Riding, Camel Spec. 2 WISDOM +2 AQ Running 1 CONSTITUTION -6 Set Snares 1 DEXTERITY -1 Spelunking 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 CR Style Analysis 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Nj Survival 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Tactics 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 AH Tracking 2 WISDOM 0 Trail Marking 1 WISDOM 0 CR Trail Signs 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 CR Weaponsmithing 3 INTELLIGENCE -3 Weaponsmithing, Crude 1 WISDOM -3 CR Wild Fighting 2 CONSTITUTION 0 CH WIZARD Ancient History 1 INTELLIGENCE -1 Anatomy 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 CN Astrology 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 Clockwork Creation 2 DEXTERITY 0 CS Engineering 2 INTELLIGENCE -3 Future History 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Ch Gem Cutting 2 DEXTERITY -2 Genie Lore 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 AQ Herbalism 2 INTELLIGENCE -2 Languages, Ancient 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Languages, Future 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 Ch Navigation 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Necrology 1 WISDOM 0 CN Netherworld Knowledge 1 WISDOM -3 CN Numeracy 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 CS Numerology 2 INTELLIGENCE 0 CS Planology 1 INTELLIGENCE 0 PW Prophecy 1 WISDOM -1 Ch Reading/Writing 1 INTELLIGENCE +1 Religion 1 WISDOM 0 Sorcerous Duelling 2 INTELLIGENCE -1 Spellcraft 1 INTELLIGENCE -2 Spell Recovery 2 INTELLIGENCE -5 PW Spirit Lore 2 CHARISMA -4 Time Sense 1 WISDOM -2 Ch Venom Handling 1 WISDOM -2 CN Undead Knowledge 1 WISDOM 0 CS NWPs in Alphabetical order Format: Name/# slots/Attribute/Modifier/Group/Source NON-WEAPON PROFICIENCIES Acting 1 CHA -1 G CB Alertness 1 WIS +1 G CT Anatomy 1 INT 0 P,Wz CN Agriculture 1 INT 0 G Ancient Geography 1 or 2 INT -2 P Sh Ancient History 1 INT -1 P,R,Wz Animal Handling 1 WIS -1 G Animal Lore 1 INT 0 W Animal Noise 1 WIS -1 R CT Animal Rending 1 DEX +2 G Bb Animal Training 1 WIS 0 G Appraising 1 INT 0 R Armourer 2 INT -2 W Armourer, Crude 1 INT -1 W Bb Artistic Ability 1 WIS 0 G Assimilation 1 INT 0 R Nj Astrology 2 INT 0 P,Wz Athletics 1 DEX -1 G AH Awareness 2 WIS 0 R,W AQ Bartering 1 INT -2 R Begging 1 CHA Sp. G CT Blacksmithing 1 STR 0 G Blind-Fighting 2 NA NA R,W Boating 1 WIS +1 G CT Boatwright 1 INT -1 G Dw Bowyer/Fletcher 1 DEX -1 W Bowyer/Fletcher, Crude 1 DEX 0 W Bb Bureaucracy 2 INT 0 P,R Pn Brewing 1 INT 0 G Calligraphy 2 DEX -2 G OA Camouflage 1 WIS 0 R,W CR Carpentry 1 STR 0 G Cartography 1 INT -2/0 G SS Caving 2 WIS var. G SS Chanting 1 CHA +2 G CB Chaos Shaping 1 WIS 0 G PW Charioteering 1 DEX +2 W Cheesemaking 1 INT 0 G CH Chicanery 1 DEX -1 R AH City Familiarity 1 INT 0 G Nj Clockwork Creation 2 DEX 0 Wz CS Close-quarters Fighting 2 DEX 0 R,W CH Clothesmaking, Crude 1 INT -1 G Bb Cobbling 1 DEX 0 G Concocting 1 INT -2 G SS Cooking 1 INT 0 G Craft Instrument 2 DEX -2 G CB Crowd Working 1 CHA 0 G CB Dancing 1 DEX 0 G Danger Sense 2 WIS +1 G CH Debate 1 INT 0 G Detect Signing 1 INT +1 R Nj Diagnostics 1 WIS -1 P Pn Direction Sense 1 WIS +1 G Disguise 1 CHA -1 R Display Weapon Prowess 1 DEX 0 W AQ Distance Sense 1 WIS 0 G CR Dream Interpretation 2 WIS -1 P Sh Drinking 1 CON 0 G CH Eating 1 CON 0 G CH Enamour 1 CHA -2 R Nj Endurance 2 CON 0 R,W Engineering 2 INT -3 P,Wz Escape 2 DEX 0 R Nj Etiquette 1 CHA 0 G Falconry 1 WIS -1 G CR Fast-Talking 1 CHA Sp. R CT Feign/Detect Sleep 1 INT 0 R Nj Fire-Building 1 WIS -1 G Fishing 1 WIS -1 G Flower Arranging 1 WIS 0 G OA Foraging 1 INT -2 G Sh Forgery 1 DEX -1 R Fortune Telling 2 CHA +2 G Fungi Recognition 1 INT +3 G Dw Future History 1 INT 0 Wz Ch Gaming 1 CHA 0 G Gem Cutting 2 DEX -2 Ps,R,Wz Genie Lore 1 INT 0 P,Wz AQ Geography 1 or 2 INT -1 G Sh Giant Kit Flying 1 DEX -3 R Nj Grooming 2 DEX 0 R AQ Haggling 2 WIS 0 G AQ Harness Subconscious 2 WIS -1 Ps Ps Healing 2 WIS -2 P Heraldry 1 INT 0 G Herbalism 2 INT -2 P,R,Wz Hiding 2 INT -1 G CH Hold Breath 1 CON 0 R Nj Horde Summoning 2 CHA -2 W Bb Hunting 1 WIS -1 R,W Hypnosis 1 CHA -2 Ps Ps Iaijutsu 1 NA NA W OA Information Gathering 1 INT Sp. R CT Intimidation 1 STR/CHA Sp. R,W CT Jousting 1 DEX +2 W Pn Juggling 1 DEX -1 R Jumping 1 STR 0 R Landscape Gardening 1 WIS -1 G OA Languages, Ancient 1 INT 0 P,Wz Languages, Future 1 INT 0 Wz Ch Languages, Modern 1 INT 0 G Law 1 WIS 0 P,W Pn Leadership 1 CHA 0 W Bb Leather Working 1 INT 0 G Light Sleeping 1 CON -1 W Bb Local History 1 CHA 0 P,R Locksmithing 1 DEX 0 R Looting 1 DEX 0 G Masseur 1 DEX 0 G OA Meditative Focus 1 WIS +1 Ps Ps Medium 2 WIS 0 G Sh Metalworking 1 DEX 0 G AQ Military Science 1 INT 0 G GR Mining 2 WIS -3 G Mountaineering 1 NA NA W Musical Instrument 1 DEX -1 G Natural Fighting 2 STR +1 W CH Navigation 1 INT -2 P,R,W,Wz Necrology 1 WIS 0 P,Wz CN Netherworld Knowledge 1 WIS -3 P,Wz CN Night Vision 1 WIS -2 R Nj Noh 1 CHA -1 G OA Numeracy 1 INT 0 Wz CS Numerology 2 INT 0 Wz CS Observation 1 INT 0 G CT Omen Interpretation 1 INT -2 P Sh Oratory 1 CHA -1 G AH Origami 1 DEX 0 G Painting 1 DEX -1 G SP Persuasion 1 CHA 0 G CR Pest Control 1 WIS 0 R Dw Philosophy 1 WIS -1 G AH Planar Direction Sense 1 WIS +1 G PW Planar Sense 1 WIS -1 G PW Planar Survival 2 INT -2 G PW Planology 1 INT 0 P,Wz PW Poetry 1 INT -2 G Politics 1 CHA 0 G GR Pottery 1 DEX -2 G Prophecy 1 WIS -1 Wz Ch Prophecy 2 WIS -2 G SS Quick Study 2 Var. -3 R Nj Reading Lips 2 INT -2 R Reading/Writing 1 INT +1 P,Ps,R,Wz Rejuvenation 1 WIS -1 Ps Ps Religion 1 WIS 0 P,Ps,Wz Rhetoric 1 CHA 0 G GR Riding, Airborne 2 WIS -2 G Riding, Camel Spec. 2 WIS +2 R,W AQ Riding, Horse Spec. 2 WIS +2 R,W AQ Riding, Land-based 1 WIS +3 G Riding, Sea-based 2 DEX -2 G CR Rope Use 1 DEX 0 G Rowing 1 STR -1 G AH Running 1 CON -6 W Sculpting 1 DEX 0 G SP Seamanship 1 DEX +1 G Seamstress/Tailor 1 DEX -1 G Set Snares 1 DEX -1 R,W Shamanistic Ritual 1 WIS +1 P Sh Sign Language 1 INT +2 G Signalling 1 INT -2 G CR Silk Making 1 DEX -2 G OA Singing 1 CHA 0 G Slow Respiration 1 NA NA G Smelting 1 INT -2 G Soothsaying 2 INT 0 P Bb Sorcerous Duelling 2 INT -1 Wz Sound Analysis 1 WIS 0 G Sound Imitation 2 CHA -2 G OA Spellcraft 1 INT -2 P,Wz Spell Recovery 2 INT -5 P,Wz PW Spelunking 1 INT -2 W CR Spirit Lore 2 CHA -4 P,Wz CN Spirit Lore 1 WIS +2 P Sh Stonemasonry 1 STR -2 G Style Analysis 1 INT -1 W Nj Survival 2 INT 0 R,W Swimming 1 STR 0 G Tactics 1 INT -1 W AH Tattooing 1 DEX 0 G Tea Ceremony 2 WIS -2 G OA Tightrope Walking 1 DEX 0 R Time Sense 1 WIS -2 Wz Ch Toxicology 2 INT 0 R Nj Tracking 2 WIS 0 R,W Trailing 1 DEX Sp. R CT Trail Marking 1 WIS 0 W CR Trail Signs 1 INT -1 R,W CR Trance 2 CON -3 P Sh Tumbling 1 DEX 0 R Undead Knowledge 1 WIS 0 P,Wz CS Underclass 1 WIS 0 R Nj Venom Handling 1 WIS -2 P,Wz CN Ventriloquism 1 INT -2 R Vetinary Healing 1 WIS -3 P CR Voice Mimicry 2 CHA Sp. G CT Water Walking 1 DEX -1 R Nj Weapon Improvisation 1 WIS -1 G Bb Weaponsmithing 3 INT -3 W Weaponsmithing, Crude 1 WIS -3 W CR Weather Sense 1 WIS -1 G Weaving 1 INT -1 G Whistling/Humming 1 DEX +2 G CB Wild Fighting 2 CON 0 W CH Winemaking 1 INT 0 G CH Fortis est ut mors dilectio