This site was a project to make a list of available skills per Dungeon Degenerate character, which then went a bit overboard. It is based on the card CSS renderering work done by Stephan Beal for his excellent Morbad Tools site. The actual content and artwork all belongs to the Dungeon Degenerates creator, Sean Äaberg of of Goblinko. Used with permission. Site by David Waller.

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Mendicant Monk

human ∙ puritan ∙ rogue

When you recover 9 or more Wounds󰀄 at once, make a MAG Test & if you pass, gain 1 Luck󰀣

+1 󰀆 | +6 󰀰 | +3 󰀣

Mercenary Alchemist

human ∙ militant ∙ scholar

Gain 1 Luck󰀣 if you pass your MAG Test with doubles while using Alchemy

+8 󰀆 | +6 󰀰 | +4 󰀣

Mercenary Alchemist

The Alchemist was brought up amongst the mercenary companies serving as an apprentice engineer & gunmaker. The Alchemist gradually learned to manipulate the base elements of matter & turned this dangerous knowledge to use waging war for the highest bidder. Caught trading dangerous crystalline powders with the Goblins of the Wasteland, the old soldier was brought in by an Imperial patrol, but even the vast barred chambers of the Undercity Dungeon can't confine this cunning & crafty dog of war!

Morbid Murderer

human ∙ puritan ∙ rogue

If you destroy a monster due to your Killing Blow Skill, gain 1 Luck󰀣

+6 󰀆 | +5 󰀰 | +2 󰀣

Found in

Hand of Doom

Home

Pigskin Port

The stench of Pigskin Port is infamous, its main street features row upon row of abattoirs, livestock pens & mazes of ramps & catwalks where herds of swine are led to the slaughter. A complicated & chaotic network of chutes & pipes carries the offal & blood of the slaughtering floor to outlet into the river where it is carried South towards the Würstreich.

Start setup

Flash Bomb

QUICK ACTION:
Discard this card & each monster in your space becomes Dazed until your next turn.
Each adventurer in your space (other than you) must make an AGI Test. Any adventurer who fails becomes Blinded until the end of the fight.

Light Pistol

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ATTACK:
PER (RANGE)
This attack ignores 1 ARM.

Alchemy

Choose an Alchemical Item in the Loot discard pile & make a MAG Test. If you pass & the GP󰀆 cost of the Item is equal or less than your highest single die, you may buy the chosen Item for its standard cost.

Half Blind

Either you've lost an eye, or you have generally poor vision.

Recommended skills

Find Weakness

COMBAT ACTION:
Make a PER Test. If you pass, attach this card to target monster (place this card on that monster's card).

Attacks inflict +1 damage against the attached monster.

Return this card to your hand at the end of the fight, or at the end of the combat round if the attached monster is removed from the fight.

Transmute

Discard an Item & make a MAG Test. If you pass, you gain GP󰀆 equal to that Item's cost.

Other available battle skills

Call Fire

QUICK ACTION:
Make a PER Test & if you pass, place this card on a target monster. Return it to your hand at the end of the fight, or if either you or the attached monster leaves the fight or is destroyed/Defeated.

While this card is attached to a monster, adventurers may target the attached monster with Range or Reach Attacks (even if they are being attacked & Taunted).

Counteract

Before resolving Arrival Abilities at the start of a fight make a PER Test. Attach this card to any monster targeting you with XP󰀰 VAL lower than or equal to {PER Test}.

If this card is attached to a monster, its ATT is 0 & it loses any Arrival abilities.

If this card is attached to a monster during the Establish Targets step or if you or the attached monster leaves the fight for any reason, return this card to your hand.

Dead Eye Shot

QUICK ACTION:
If you make a Range Attack this turn, you may swap the value of a Power die with the value of one of your Attack dice, unless your target is an Ooze or Swarm, or has Ghostly.

Exploit

Your Attacks inflict +1 damage against monsters that are Dazed or Hexed.

Foe Killer

Your Melee Attacks inflict +1 damage against targets with XP󰀰 VAL 3 or more.

Forlorn Hope

While you have Wounds󰀄 equal to or greater than your CON, you have +1 STR & you are immune to Fear & Pain.

Lurker

During a fight, you may skip your turn & act last; after all other adventurers in your party have taken a turn.

If another member of your party is also using this Skill/Mastery, agree who will act first or roll off.

Martial Discipline

You are immune to Annoy & Taunt.

Polearm Discipline

If you are using a Reach Attack with a 2H Heavy󰁀 Item, you may resolve the effects of your Attack before you resolve the attacks of monsters targeting you without Range󰁃 on the first round of a fight, unless you are Stunned (if you destroy your target, it cannot attack).

Provoke

QUICK ACTION:
If you are not being targeted this round, attach this card to a monster in your space (place this card on that monster's card).

The attached monster must target you during the Establish Targets step.

Return this card to your hand at end of fight, or at the end of a round if the attached monster is removed from the fight or Provoked by another adventurer.

Scheming

Before resolving Arrival Abilities at the start of a fight make a PER Test. If you pass, you may resolve a free Attack or Combat Action on any monster targeting you (treat the monster as having an ATT of 0 during the free Attack).

Sixth Sense

You are immune to Ambush.

Adventurers in your party add +1 to their PER while they Test against Ambush.

To the Front

If you are being targeted by 4 or more monsters, you may swap the value of any one Power die with any one Defence die.

Other available utility skills

Anatomy

At the end of a fight, you may make a MAG Test. If you pass, one adventurer in your party recovers 1 Wound󰀄.

Astronomy

Make a PER Test. If you pass & PER Test is equal to the Moon Phase Number, you may draw half {PER Test} cards from the top of the Danger Deck & replace them in the order you drew them.

Bleeding

Choose an adventurer in your party (or yourself) & roll 2 dice. The chosen adventurer becomes Fatigued & takes piercing damage equal to your lowest single die. Then, remove a Plague counter from that adventurer for each  rolled.

Botanist

Make a PER Test. If you pass, place a Metaphysical󰀠 counter on any Herb card. When instructed to discard a card with a Metaphysical󰀠 counter on it, you may instead discard a single Metaphysical󰀠 counter.

You may only use one Metaphysical󰀠 counter for this purpose at any given time.

Cure Disease

Make a MAG Test. If you pass, discard Alchemical or Herb items with GP cost equal to {MAG Test} to remove a Plague counter or discard a Disease card from any adventurer in your space (including yourself).

Detective

When rolling dice (a Test or otherwise) for the purposes of revealing, obtaining, or activating a Clue token, you may roll an additional die & discard any single die.

Dilettante

When you Improve, you may learn any Skill that requires: Fighter, Hunter, Merchant, Militant, Performer, or Rogue (even if you do not meet its requirements).

Place that Skill on this card & while it is there, you always meet that Skill's requirements.

You cannot Master a Skill on this card & you can only learn one Skill in this way. If you discard this Skill, also discard the attached Skill.

Dopesmoker

When you make a Test while using an Herb, you may roll an additional die & use any 2.

Gourmet

At the end of a fight, you may consume one Brute, Filth, or Goblin that your party destroyed. If you do, make a CON Test. If you pass, recover Wounds󰀄 equal to your lowest single die. If you fail, you become Poisoned.

Immunity

If you would become Poisoned, first roll D6. If your roll is equal to or greater than your Wounds󰀄, you are not Poisoned.

Mend Wounds

Make a MAG Test. If you pass, you & each other adventurer in your party recovers 1 Wound󰀄 & this Skill/Mastery cannot be used by another member of your party this round.

Night Vision

When you make a PER Test to EXPLORE you may add the Moon Phase Value to your PER value.

Physics

When resolving an Illusion, Scholar, Trap or Weird Encounter, you may reroll any single die (including rolling for an Attribute Test).

Research

Make a PER Test. If you pass, place a Metaphysical󰀠 counter on this card (you may have a maximum of 1 Metaphysical󰀠 counter on this card).

When rolling dice (a Test or otherwise) for the purpose of revealing, obtaining or activating a Clue token, discard a Metaphysical󰀠 counter from this card to reroll any single die.

Without Half Blind -1 PER

Dominate

COMBAT ACTION:
Make a PER Test. If you pass, inflict damage equal to your lowest single die to target monster (not Ooze or Swarm or has Ghostly). If you inflict damage greater than the monster's XP󰀰 val, they become Dazed.

Slippery

QUICK ACTION:

If it is the first round of a fight, choose a target monster & make an AGI or PER Test.

If you pass & your highest single die is equal to or greater than the target's XP󰀰 VAL, reassign the monster to another adventurer, based on its target attribute.

This skill has no effect on monsters that target ALL.

Sneak Attack

QUICK ACTION:
If it is your first turn after entering a fight, you may roll an additional Power die when you use an AGI or PER Attack this turn.

Snipe

QUICK ACTION:

When making a Range Attack, if your lowest Attack die is higher than target monster's ARM, your Attack inflicts Piercing damage.