Recent content by Axartes

I had assumed Aptitude to mean a characters ability to understand and utilise objects/machinery that they were unfamiliar with. Such as a character with a high intelligence being able to understand the purpose of a particular device, but a character would have to both understand it's function...

Sounds good (and far more eloquent than my scrawling!) As for your problem with not being certain if enough skills could be based off of the presence/intimidate stat - I think you'd need to be more explicit with the plan in general for us to have much in the way of suggestions. For example...

STR + CHA - To be honest, it seems like intimidation is a fair choice here. If you wanted to make it less "in your face" you could relabel as "presence" or some such. You know like how some people walk into a room and you instinctively know they're important/dangerous/combat ready. DEX +...