Skill list grows from 18 → 30 so every ability has 5 skills tied to it.
New skills appended at SkillId byte indices 18–29 to preserve
save-game compat with pre-M6.18 characters.
STR (+4): Brawl, Build-Read, Force, Haulage
DEX (+2): Driving, Marksmanship
CON (+5): Endurance, Fortitude, Hardiness, Lung-Craft, Pain Tolerance
CHA (+1): Scent-Speak
Endurance covers applied effort over time; Hardiness covers external
condition tolerance (temperature, smoke, altitude); Fortitude is
ingestion-only (poison, spoiled food, ritual draughts). Pain Tolerance
is function-while-wounded. Lung-Craft is breath/voice discipline.
Class skill_options updated across all 8 callings so every new skill
has 3+ class homes (Muzzle-Speaker remains the universal pick of
all 30). Backgrounds left untouched — their skill grants are
doc-canon and would benefit from a separate balancing pass.
CharacterBuilder.SkillToJsonName extended with explicit cases for the
new skills so compound enum names like BuildRead serialize as
"build_read" rather than the fallback "buildread" — caught by
CharacterBuilderTests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captures the pre-Godot-port state of the codebase. This is the rollback
anchor for the Godot port (M0 of theriapolis-rpg-implementation-plan-godot-port.md).
All Phase 0 through Phase 6.5 work is included; Phase 7 is in flight.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Christopher Wiebe