Combat:

Wǒ shuō zhōngguó: Translation: “I speak Chinese“. This character is fluent in Chinese and is therefore more likely to get by well in San Francisco.

Ablo Espagñol: Translation: “I speak Spanish“. This character is fluent in Spanish is able to get by much better in the direction of former Mexiko (or with people that come from there).

Sign language for the deaf: This character knows the most often used version of the sign language for the deaf in the wasteland and can talk about the most complex of issues using just his hands.

Ranger tactical sign language: Since it's always a pain in the ass to loudly discuss the details of the coming attack, while sneaking up on the enemy, the NCR Rangers have developed their own sign language for tactical purposes. Characters that know this language can use it to exchange
details about a tactical situation without uttering a single sound.

Other language: This character knows another language that is not listed above. Be it the language of his tribe or maybe latin for a very well educated character or maybe the European language of his ancestors.

Sheet music: However it was learned, this character knows how to, as musicians would say, sight read.

Traveling and living in the Wasteland:

  Home on the Road: The same I <3 *This City*, but for certain ways. Those that often travel between two points in the wasteland, know their route especially well and can walk (or drive or ride) it a bit faster – further more, they know, from personal experience all dangers on the route and
where to set up their tents and where to get fresh, clean water etc.

Wanderlust: This character loves long marches or rides, maybe even drives. Either way, he really has bees up his backside and refuses to stay at any one place longer than is absolutely necessary. While he doesn't know any single town or city well, and hasn't traveled most routes more than once or twice, he has learned a lot about traveling. Tests on body control when applied to marching get a bonus of half. And there is a further bonus for all tests that have to do with marching, camping or survival in the wasteland.

Crafts:

 Electrician: Electrical power is a wonderful, versatile thing. So much that is otherwise done through brute strength can be done by just a few cables and electrical engines. And you can build it all. All tests that have to do with electrical power (for example laying conduits, building something
that uses electricity or most tests on repairing(electronics)) get a bonus of 25 points.

Bondage artist: Maybe your character is a cowboy or a slave hunter or maybe it's just a sexual thing, no matter the reason: he's twice as good at tying up living beings than most others.

Houdini Junior: Maybe he's an escape artist or just experienced in getting into sticky situations (or has fun with special kinds of sex): this character knows how to get out of restraints and ropes. All tests on things like that are reduced by half.

Leather tanning: Great, so you hunted a dozen golden geckos and took their skins: but wouldn't it be even greater if you yourself could create that wonderful gecko leather, that all love to wear? With this extraordinary skill a character knows how to utilize a few tools to create proper leather.

Plastics expert: A plastics expert knows about the creation and processing of all kinds of plastics stuff: no matter if he wants to isolate a wire with rubber or form a complex piece out of hard plastics, all tests on crafting, repairing(mechanics) and repairing(electronics) that have to do
specifically with plastics are reduced by half.

Butchering: The skill to completely gut an animal and to utilize pretty much every piece, from the skin to the bones to the tasty meat. Or, as they teach the children of many a wild tribe: To pacify the spirit of the slain animal, you may never squander any part of it!

Smith: A smith knows his ways of working metal: it does not really matter if he plans to smith a complex, intricate part of machinery or a steel beam for a building. Tests on crafting, repairing(mechanics) and repairing(electronics) that deal specifically with metal are reduced by
half.

Tailoring: With tailoring we do not mean to use needle and thread to more or less sow shut that damn hole in your pants or add a patch to your shirt, but to create, out of cloth and with needle and thread (and maybe some other tools like scissors and a sewing machine) a complete piece of
clothing.

Carpenter: A carpenter knows his wood very well, no mater if he wants to build something small or a large piece of furniture out of it. Tests on Tests on crafting and repairing(mechanics) that deal specifically with wood are reduced by half.

  Association with people:

 Surgeon: Tests on the skill doctor that deal with surgeries of any kind are reduced by half. Reattaching the cut off finger? Treat a gun shot wound? Reduce and correctly splint the compound fractured leg? No problem at all for a surgeon.

Field medic: You know your treatments for gun shot wounds much better than you know different wounds: you get a bonus of 25 points on first aid whenever you treat a gun shot wound.

Internist: Tests on the skill doctor that do not concern themselves with surgeries, but with everything else that is wrong with a body, are reduced by half for an internist. Lowering a fever? Treat radiation damage? Correctly identify a poisoning and administer the correct anti dote? No
problem at all for an internist.

Motivational speaker: Whether you heat up the crowd in one of New Reno's great casinos, before the comedian steps up, or you lead the congregation in praise to the lord (or the unexploded nuclear device, the wasteland knows all manners of religion), or if you as an officer inspire your troops before leading them in battle: you can motivate crowds. All tests on persuade/convince are reduced by 15 points, when you're not addressing single persons but crowds.

Emergency room medic: You've seen it all: children that fell from trees, craftsmen that cut off fingers, drunks that fell down the stairs, all of that is old news for you: apply a bandage and send 'em home. With every wound that is not created by a gun shot, you gain 25 points on your first aid
skill.

Bargain hunter: You know all the tricks of those cutthroats that call themselves “honest traders” and you know where and how to get everything on the cheap. The buying price of your wares is 10% below what you'd get following the normal trading rules. (That means you first apply the
normal rules, then deduct 10%).

Sexpert: Be it due to innate talent or a lot of experience: you know how to satisfy your partner in bed (or in a shed, in an alley or the back seat of a Brahmin cart …) What advantages (or disadvantages) this brings we leave up to the player.

Salesman of the month: You're an expert in selling your wares. Your prices are so fair, it's incredible. Not the normal definition of fair, in which both sides trade something of equal value, of course, but the definition of a successful trader: your customer makes you rich. The selling price of
your wares is 10% above that which you'd get following the normal trading rules. (That means you first apply the normal rules, then add ten percent).

Association with plants and animals:

Gardener: Whether you learned it in Dad's small garden or somewhere else, you have a green thumb: All tests on plant cultivation or agriculture are reduced by half.

Herbal lore: Your tribe's shaman might have shown them to you or maybe you learned it out of books: you know the mutated herbs of the wasteland and know which of them have healing properties. And you know which are poisonous.

Rancher: You grew up on a ranch or had a lot of contact with horses for other reasons. The training of horses is easier for you – all training times with horses are halved. And you get a 15 points bonus on all riding tests.

Dog handler: You know that dogs have a pack mentality and you know how to make it clear to those noble beasts, that you lead the pack. You never had a problem teaching dogs new tricks and often understand them better than your fellow humans. The training of dogs goes twice as fast for
you.

Stable boy (or girl): Whether you grew up on a farm or if you just spent time working in the stables of trading house: you know how to handle Brahmins, even those that have a thick skull (the other is usually a lot more affable, in those cases). The training of Brahmin goes twice as fast for
you.

Knowledge and Sciences:

 I <3 *This City*: You grew up in *this city*, maybe you were even born there ... or maybe you just spent 4 months working there as a taxi driver: however you gained this knowledge, you know *this city* and it's streets and alleys like the backside of your hand. (Please insert the name of the specific city between the stars/asterisks for the properly educated).
Since this character knows this city so well, he receives certain bonuses (how much is left to the master, since it depends a lot on the situation) for any and all kinds of tests, that have to do with the city: geography and politics for example, to know that one needs permit A38 and that you get that at city hall and also to know where to find city hall. Persuade/convince to get the clerks there to issue the permit by offering to kill their tiresome boss in compensation. Tactics to know where on his way to work it's easiest to get to him, social adaptation not to stand out in the crowd of morning commuters and warn the department head...

Back in the days: This character might be a Ghoul that spent the last few hundred years being awake for an average of 18 hours a day and with his eyes wide open, maybe he has just read a few books that weren't NCR propaganda or ancient Vault-Tec brochures, anyway, this character knows
history. At least a part of it. This character receives a bonus whenever his special knowledge of history is needed.

Suitable specializations would be for example: antiquity, middle ages, modern era, the Resource Wars and the Great War, the history of certain technologies (railroad, telegraph, nuclear bombs), the history of slavery, the history of the NCR, the history of the Brotherhood of Steel...

Biologist: This character knows his birds and bees and would make a wonderful bean counter. On every test on natural sciences that has to do with biology, they receive a ten points bonus.

Chemist: This character knows their bases and acids and more than one way to get warm air to smell funny. On every test on natural sciences that has to do with chemistry, they receive a ten points bonus.

Physicist: This character knows their forces and globated objects in vacuum and knows that you have to mind the second law – and not to prevent a rise of the machines. On every test on natural sciences that has to do with physics, they receive a ten points bonus.

 Technical:

Master-User: You had a computer in your nursery – you might never have learned a lot about programming or repairing computers and all those abbreviations your nerdier friends keep using are still a closed book to you, but at least you can use a computer pretty well, as long as someone else wrote the programs for you.
You receive a bonus whenever you use a computer for something that it's meant to do (to take a look at the security footage with the security main computer? No problem. Getting it to display certain older footage in a loop, so that no one sees the pictures changing is of course, hacking and
something else entirely).
The degree of reduction depends on various factors and is decided by the master (excitement, time pressure, familiarity with this system …)

 Others:

 Juggler: Torches and balls, tin cans and rusty senses: nothing ever hits the floor with you. Your little stunts amaze the people around you. All tests on animation are reduced by half.

*...*-Junkie: In stead of the three dots, please insert your poison of choice: This character has already drunk, snorted or injected so much of this stuff, that his (or her) body has grown extremely accustomed to it. A junkie can go half as long between doses and even if they do go cold turkey, the effects of that are only twice as bad – but they last twice as long.

Musical instrument: This character knows how to use a certain musical instrument. Since this is the preliminary end of this list and the author of these lines is getting lazy, he'll just recommend the names of each musical instrument as specialization.
Without this extraordinary skill, a high value on music is useless, even when owning the proper musical instrument. On the other hand, a high skill value would undoubtedly make it easier to learn the proper use of that instrument. Please make out the details with the master.