My Dungeon Game: Skills and Languages

I have been tinkering with my own rules for a while now. And while it still isn’t finished (will it ever be?) I am getting to the point where I could see it being used in a game. Now mind you, I didn’t really come up with this on my own, I just took ideas from other places and added my own spin to it. The very core of the game used to be the Labyrinth Lord SRD, but I drew in parts from other places over time so I don’t know if much of that is left (the skills as d6 values idea definitely came from Lamentations of the Flame Princess) Anyway, here is my take on a 1d6 based skill system. This replaces the thieves’ skills and adds further skills from various places (e.g. the Search Roll has become a Perception skill, and the Dwarves’ Architecture ability has become a skill). Languages also are now treated as separate skills. The main idea is that these skills are in fact all available to all characters, but some might have more skill in them than others. Every character gains 1 skill…