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.

There is a total of 1079 entries in the site. Last updated Sun May 24 2026

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The Fool

human ∙ rogue ∙ wild

When you successfully Explore due to an Ally or Item (you would otherwise have failed the PER Test) gain 1 Luck󰀣

+1 󰀆 | +5 󰀰 | +6 󰀣

Unlicensed Surgeon

human ∙ rogue ∙ scholar

When you win a fight, if your party destroyed any Humans, you may become Detained & make a PER Test; if you pass, gain 1 Luck󰀣

+9 󰀆 | +8 󰀰 | +4 󰀣

Unlicensed Surgeon

Once a barber's apprentice, her skills with the razor & scalpel were put to task bleeding foul humours from the veins of her clients & cutting away their warts, cysts, boils & blemishes. Her furious fascination with anatomy & countless long nights spent cutting on cadavers eventually led her to more delicate & dangerous work; performing amputations & other surgeries for the criminal underworld. Her motives both noble & wholesome, the Unlicensed Surgeon walks a razor's edge with a disturbingly ravenous appetite for her bloody work.

Vermin Hunter

human ∙ hunter ∙ rogue

Make a MRL Test when you win a fight if you destroyed a Swarm or Vermin & if you pass, gain 1 Luck󰀣

+4 󰀆 | +8 󰀰 | +3 󰀣

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Mean Streets

Home

Brüttelburg

This walled city of truly massive proportions was built by a long-lost civilization of wizard-giants who carved their own titanic faces into the solid rock of the fortress walls. The vast city-fortress is divided into layers & districts by the immense fortifications & maddeningly complext design of the ancient stone walls & corridors. Ages of rapid expansion & slow decay layered on top of the alien stonework form a labyrinthine sprawl, its only maps long gone out of date.

Start setup

Painkiller

QUICK ACTION:
Discard this card to become immune to Pain until the end of the fight.

Surgery Saw

ATTACK:
AGI (MELEE)

QUICK ACTION:
Attacks with this Item ignore 1 point of ARM against Filth (until the end of your turn).

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.

Despair

How could you have let this happen?!
When another adventurer in your party is Defeated, you become Demoralized & Suppressed.

Recommended skills

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.

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.

Other available battle skills

Backstab

If you are using a Blade, your Attacks against monsters that are not targeting you ignore 1 point of ARM.

Combat Reflexes

This bonus does not apply until your first turn in a fight.

Counter

For each 6 you roll on a Power die, inflict 1 Piercing damage on a monster targeting you without Range󰁃.

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.

Exploit

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

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.

Intimidate

QUICK ACTION:
If you destroyed an enemy this round, choose a target Bandit or Heretic with XP󰀰 VAL 1 & make a MRL Test. If you pass & your highest single die is equal to or greater than the target's remaining HP󰀘, place the target in its discard pile.

Killing Blow

When making an AGI melee attack, if you inflict damage to target monster & the monster's total Wounds󰀄 is only one less than their HP󰀘, you may inflict 1 extra damage.

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.

Pigeon Friend

If you roll at least one 6 on any Power die, you may ignore damage from any single monster targeting you (if you are in Guard󰀔 stance you may still use the Power die to block damage from another monster).

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).

Smell Trouble

At the start of a fight, make a PER Test. If you pass, you may discard any single monster card (including Law cards) in your space with XP󰀰 VAL lower than {PER Test}.

Street Rat

Roll 3 dice & use any 2 when you to attempt to Escape.

COMBAT ACTION:
Make a PER Test. If you pass, monsters cannot inflict Wounds󰀄 on you this round unless they have Pursue.

Strike Fear

At the start of a fight, make a MRL Test. If you pass, any Humans or Goblins with XP󰀰 VAL lower than your lowest single die become Dazed for the first round of the fight. If you fail, all Human & Goblin monsters will target you for the first round of the fight.

Other available utility skills

Adventurising

When you become Blinded or Suppressed, become Blessed.

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.

Beer Magnet

Make a PER Test. If you pass, you may buy any Loot Item from the Discard pile that is both Alchemical & Food.

Black Market

Draw a card from the Loot deck. If it is an Ally, Item, or Service, you may purchase it for normal cost (otherwise discard it).

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.

Contacts

Make a MRL Test. If you fail the Test & your highest die is greater than the Town Level, gain GP󰀆 equal to your lowest die.

Make a PER Test. If you pass, draw Loot cards equal to your lowest die. You may purchase one item & discard the rest.

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).

Dauntless

You may use MRL for Force March Tests (in place of CON).

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.

Looter

When you make a Loot roll, roll two dice & use either result (ignore the other die).

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).

Poetry

Choose a single Status Condition counter with a positive & negative effect (Exalted, Blessed, Focused or Invigorated). Make a MRL Test (add the Moon Phase value to your MRL value). If you pass, you gain the positive status condition. If you fail, you instead gain the negative status condition.

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.

River Rat

You may River Port Travel for free & other members of your party may River Port Travel for 1 GP󰀆 each.

Sticky Fingers

After Resolving your Recovery action, you may draw Loot cards equal to {AGI Test} or the Town Level (whichever is lower) & keep one (discard the others). If you fail your AGI Test, become Detained unless you pay a fine of GP󰀆 equal to the single lowest die (the single highest die if you are in a Law󰀴 space).

Streetwise

When you make a PER Test to Explore or Hunt, roll 3 dice & use any 2.

Transmute

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