Skills...

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Imagine we had complete control over the skills within RuneScape, both existing and forthcoming; what would be our dream list?

Resource Gathering skills;
• Farming; cultivating plants for harvesting [of produce].
• Felling; cutting wood, and other resources, from trees.
• Fishing; procuring fish, and similar creatures, from bodies of water, lava or from the air.
• Mining; reprising minerals from the earth (and foreign substances).
• Rearing; animal husbandry (meat, pelts and other produce).
• Runecraft; collecting magical energies from altars constructed at magically-unstable locations.
• Skinning; carving flesh, and other prizes, from a dead carcass.

Processing/Production skills;
• Alchemy; the practice of converting one thing into another, using magical energies and other natural chemicals.
• Conjuring; the practice of spinning magical energies into a sustained form, such as weapons and armour.
• Cooking; the practice of preparing edible (and occasionally inedible) dishes.
• Fletching
• Herblore
• Smithing; the practice of metal-forging, such as weapons and armour.
• Stonecutting; the practice of gemstone-enchantment using light and magical energies, and augmentation. (inspired by Fable)
• Stonework;
• Tailoring
• Tinkering
• Woodwork; the practice of carving wood, to create items such as weapons, carts and canoes.

Combat skills;
• Attack
• Strength
• Sorcery
• Mana
• Ranged
• Marksmanship
• Defence
• Hitpoints
• Agility

Character Development skills;
• Bending; kinetic manipulation of the elements.
• Demonology
• Firecraft
• Hunter
• Mysticism
• Necromancy
• Prayer
• Slayer
• Thieving
• Summoning
• Zoanthropy

Recreational skills;
• Archaeology
• Construction
• Seafaring

Lost skills;
• Crafting, all over the place.
• Magic, all over the place.

I'm trying to recall them all. I think I've probably missed half of the existing skills.

But RuneScape isn't now... when the skill master is an old dude wearing a tailorcoat, it's not a feminine skill where you're making dresses. There's also the fact that the majority of fashion designers TODAY are male; designing for females and other males.

Cloth-working?

That would probably fit in with tailoring.

I mean that could cover both

I think putting the word cloth won't help. Besides... two-word skill names suck.

Bending could be the weaponless Magic, lol. Like Melee can use it's fists, Magicians could use bending. Adding Runes merely makes it stronger. But... then... they're different skills.

*tries to comfort Dark without coming across gay*

What's wrong?

Help me define the skills... I keep failing! XD

Quite an interesting collection you got there!

What happened to this discussion.

Okay, new mission, make every skill "ideal".

So... be able to make a small fortune in a small amount of time, free transportation...

yeah seems far fetched

*facepalm*

*realises how everything on this forum is far fetched....*

I was more facepalming TATz, but yeah.

This will be a very tall order, and I probably have much better things to do, but I'm going to try and draw a character for each of these skills.

Oooo

I'm not 100% happy with this one, I'mma improve it. But here's the Sorcerer. Next up, the Magician.

oh, the ambiguity