Secondary Abilities

M20 introduces skills we replace with skills available in V20, as follows.

• Martial Arts: Brawl. You need a Specialty of Martial Arts in order to use the Martial Arts moves. With that specialty, you may pick 1 move per dot of Brawl.
• Art Expression: Expression.
• Enigmas: Occult.
• Esoterica: Occult.

Secondaries are also introduced in M20 but we sub in standard skills already in v20. When a mechanic calls for a specific skill. Roll one of the equivalents at standard difficulty, not at the reduced difficulty from a Secondary skill:

• Acrobatics: Athletics.
• Animal Kinship: Animal Ken.
• Area Knowledge: Streetwise.
• Archery: Athletics.
• Belief Systems: Occult.
• Biotech: Lesser of Computer and Medicine.
• Blatancy: Performance.
• Carousing: Subterfuge.
• Cryptography: Computer. Academics may be used at +1 difficulty for manual (de)ciphering and will consume downtime.
• Demolitions: Science.
• Energy Weapons: To shoot, Firearms. To maintain/create/repair, Technology.
• Flying and Jetpack: Drive 4+, Speicalty required.
• High Ritual: Lesser of Occult and Etiquette.
• Hypertech: Lesser of Technology vs Science.
• Lore: Occult. Also, we have a Lores System, take individual Lores.
• Lucid Dreaming: Demesne.
• Media: Leadership.
• Parapsychology: Occult.
• Pharmacopoeia: Medicine.
• Riding: The lesser of your Animal Ken vs Athletics.
• Search: Alertness.
• Seduction: Subterfuge.
• Torture: Intimidation or Medicine.