Favored Skills: Skill costs are based on whether the skill is a Favored Skill or a Standard Skill, as well as how many ranks the character currently has in the skill. Starting off, Favored Skills cost 1 Character Point (CP) and Standard Skills cost 3 CP per rank, and the costs for both increase from there, depending upon the total number of ranks that the character has in the skill. The listing for Favored Skills may allow the player to select one or more skills to be considered as Favored Skills. In all such cases, the choice applies only to a single instance of a skill (1 Lore skill, 1 combat skill, etc.).

Prime Stats: Every Character Class has 2 stats which are felt to be the most important for that given class. It is recommended, but not required, that you put your highest stat scores into those stats. If a listed stat has an asterisk (*) next to it, then this is considered the Magic Stat for that Class.
        The Magic Stat is the stat that is used for the Magecraft and Spellcasting skills. If a Class does not have a Magic Stat listed (i.e. no default School of Magic), then the Intelligence stat should be used for the Magic Stat. If such a character later learns a School of Magic, then his Magic Stat will change to be the one used for that particular School.

Special Abilities: This section lists any special abilities that members of this Class will automatically have. If the special ability is part of a specific Talent listed in the Talent section, this will be noted at the end of the special ability’s description inside of brackets [ ]. Any character of that Class should be considered as having that listed Talent, especially when considering whether or not they may acquire that talent more than once.