@opencharacter/awn-core 0.0.0-stage → 0.2.0

package/LICENSE

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+Ashes Without Number (awn-core): an Open Character Format pack
+================================================================================
+
+This pack models the character rules of Ashes Without Number, by Kevin Crawford,
+published by Sine Nomine Publishing. Its text comes from the game's free
+edition and is used with the author's permission (license:
+LicenseRef-sine-nomine-free-edition). Whoever shares the pack's content must
+pass on its credit and notices:
+
+Text from Ashes Without Number (Free Edition), © 2025 Sine Nomine Publishing,
+Inc., by Kevin Crawford. Used with the author's permission.
+
+The content of the free edition of Ashes Without Number is reproduced here with
+the author's permission; nothing from the game's paid edition is included.
+
+Ashes Without Number is a game by Kevin Crawford, published by Sine Nomine
+Publishing. This pack is an unofficial model of its character rules: it is not
+affiliated with or endorsed by Sine Nomine Publishing.
+
+The free edition's text, names and tables remain the property of Sine Nomine
+Publishing, Inc.; the permission covers their use in this pack, not a license
+to reuse them elsewhere.
+
+The Open Character Format contributors' own work in this pack (its data
+structure, formulas and the labels written for it) is dedicated to the public
+domain under CC0 1.0 Universal, the default for packs in the Open Character
+Format repository that declare no license of their own (packs/LICENSE). CC0
+covers only that work.

package/README.md

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-# Temporary Holding Version
+# Ashes Without Number
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+`@opencharacter/awn-core` is an unofficial [Open Character Format](https://opencharacterformat.org/)
+pack for the character rules of _Ashes Without Number_, by Kevin Crawford (Sine Nomine
+Publishing). It is for apps that build, show and advance survivors with an OCF engine: attributes,
+backgrounds, skills, edges, foci, mutations, hit points, saves, advancement to 10th level, gear
+and encumbrance.
+
+Its text (skill, edge, focus, mutation and background descriptions) comes from the game's free
+edition and is used with the author's permission. Nothing from the paid edition is included.
+
+## Install and load
+
+```sh
+pnpm add @opencharacter/awn-core @opencharacter/engine
+```
+
+This release needs spec 0.3: `@opencharacter/engine` 0.3.0 or later. An engine for an older
+spec refuses it (`spec-version-unsupported`).
+
+```ts
+import { applyChanges, loadRuleset, startAction } from '@opencharacter/engine';
+import apocalypse from '@opencharacter/awn-core';
+
+const loaded = loadRuleset([apocalypse]);
+if (!loaded.ok) throw new Error(loaded.errors.map((e) => e.code).join(', '));
+const { ruleset } = loaded;
+
+// A random survivor: every roll and pick made by the engine.
+const blank = {
+  specVersion: '0.3.0',
+  id: 'survivor',
+  packs: [{ id: 'awn-core', version: '0.2.0' }],
+  creating: true,
+};
+const run = startAction(ruleset, blank, {
+  action: { id: 'awn-core:create-character' },
+  params: { random: true },
+  policy: { dice: 'auto', choices: 'auto', allocations: 'auto' },
+});
+```
+
+## License
+
+- **License:** `LicenseRef-sine-nomine-free-edition`. The free edition's text is reproduced with
+  the author's permission; apps that show the pack's content must pass on its `credit` and
+  notices:
+
+  > Text from Ashes Without Number (Free Edition), © 2025 Sine Nomine Publishing, Inc., by Kevin
+  > Crawford. Used with the author's permission.
+
+- **Notices:** `permission` (the free edition's content is used with permission; the paid
+  edition's is excluded) and `not-affiliated` (the pack is unofficial and not endorsed by Sine
+  Nomine Publishing). [`LICENSE`](LICENSE) has them all.
+
+## What's modeled
+
+- **Attributes:** the six scores (3–18) and their modifiers. Bonuses "to a maximum of +2"
+  (`attributes.*.boost`), uncapped bonuses and penalties (never below −2) are kept apart, so
+  every edge, focus and mutation applies the book's caps.
+- **Skills:** the 19 skills at level −1 (untrained) to 4. A skill check rolls 2d6 (more dice,
+  best two kept, with Specialist and Healer) plus an attribute modifier and the level.
+- **Creation** (`create-character`), in the book's order: attributes (3d6 in order and a 14, or
+  the array), background (d20), its free skill, two picks or three Growth/Learning rolls, the
+  underdog rule, two edges, mutations, foci, the edges', foci's and mutations' own picks, the free
+  bonus skill, hit points and starting equipment (hapless innocents, you saw it coming, or a
+  wasteland warrior with the near-future or wasteland table).
+  - `guided` recommends the quick skills, the lowest roll for the 14 and the first option
+    elsewhere; `random` rolls every table and draws every free pick.
+  - A skill pick past level-1, or a skill a negative mutation forbids, goes to another skill.
+- **Edges, foci and bonus skills:** each edge and focus is a copy (a focus with its level, 1 or
+  2). Their bonus skills are applied by the action that adds them: a skill pick at creation,
+  three skill points (kept as credit) later. Edges and foci the level earns are follow-ups.
+- **Mutations:** mutation points from Mutant, Mutation Acceleration and up to three rolled
+  negative mutations (d100, with Lightly Touched); the stigma (concealable for a point, and the
+  suggestion tables); positive mutations rolled (d6 + d10), rolled two in a category, or picked.
+  Negative mutations' attribute penalties, forbidden skills and barred sensory mutations apply;
+  Slow Development's favorite skill is a choice on it, and every other skill's `cap` is one
+  below the level's usual maximum (at least level-0).
+- **Hit points, attack bonus and saves:** by level, with Hard to Kill, On Target and the
+  mutations that change them. `level-up` rerolls hit points (the roll if better, else +1).
+- **Advancement:** experience on the fast or slow table, `level-up`, `improve-skill` and
+  `improve-attribute` with the book's costs and minimum levels.
+- **Gear:** armor, ranged, melee, high-tech and portable heavy weapons, survival gear, drugs and
+  stims. Each weapon shows its hit bonus, damage bonus and Shock; `attack` rolls it.
+- **Encumbrance:** Readied (equipped) and Stowed loads against Strength, small items bundled
+  three to one when stowed, and the slower moves of pushing past the limits. A start that brings
+  more than its Strength can haul stows Readied items, then leaves Stowed ones behind, heaviest
+  first, until it is within the limits. A guided player picks which, but can't stop early.
+- **Rolled twice:** Weak Heart's Exert checks keep the worse of two 2d6 rolls; Constant
+  Secretions (the `grapple` situational choice) and Survivalist (`foraging`) keep the better. An
+  attack given its target's view (`participants.target`) rolls laser damage twice against Light
+  Sensitivity, the higher kept.
+- **System strain and stress:** maximums with the edges, foci and mutations that change them.
+
+## Add-on packs
+
+A pack that depends on `awn-core` can add content of its types, and creation and advancement offer
+it with the core's, in the guided picks and the random draws:
+
+- **Edges and foci** join every pick. Their limits are tags, not IDs: `repeatable`, `first-edge`
+  (Forged By Fire), `needs-mutant`, `makes-mutant`, `not-mutant`, `not-underdog`. One with
+  `gainPart: true` runs its own `gain-part` action (`listed: false`) when taken, as Educated,
+  Mutant, Mutation Acceleration and Unstable Mutant do; an edge's mutation points are an effect on
+  `mutations.points.edges`.
+- **Prepared survivors' picks** are content of the type `prepared`: the item (`gear`, by ID;
+  another pack's qualified), its quantity, readied or not, and what comes with it (`extra`).
+- **Weapons:** a wasteland warrior's weapon is any primitive melee weapon, or a primitive one with
+  `kitAmmo` (the bow and its arrows), which comes with that ammunition.
+- **Mutations** join the chosen and the fallback picks; the d6 category and d10 tables, and the
+  d100 negative table, keep the book's odds.
+- **Mutation categories** are content of the type `mutationCategory`, which a mutation names in
+  `category`. An added category joins the "two in one category" pick; its mutations' `roll` is
+  their d10 roll within it.
+- **Tagged steps** take an add-on's rules-level `option` and `changes` effects: `creation.kit`
+  (the starting equipment option: an added option is another way to equip), `creation.mutation`
+  (how mutation points are spent), `creation.finish` (the last step of creation) and
+  `advancement.level` (each new level's level and skill points).
+
+- **Open enums:** the stigma fields (`stigma.part`, `stigma.part2`, `stigma.nature`,
+  `stigma.detail`), for more suggestions to set by hand; the rolled tables keep the book's.
+- **Naming what an add-on adds:** it names each added value, option or key in its own text,
+  under the key this pack would use, and `createText` finds it there when the app passes the
+  ruleset's `enumOrigins`, `optionOrigins` and `familyOrigins`. For example,
+  `tail` added to `awn-core:fields.stigma.part` is
+  `fields.stigma.part.values.tail.name: Tail` (through `enumOrigins`).
+
+- **Skills** are the `skill` family: an add-on adds one (`families: { 'awn-core:skill': [<key>] }`)
+  and declares its `skills.<key>.level` (tagged `skill` and `skill.<key>`), `.credit` and `.cap`
+  (tagged `skill-cap` and `skill.<key>`). The core's changes reach them through `fieldId`, so
+  creation, `improve-skill`, skill points and a forbidding mutation gain, raise and lower it as the
+  core's. A background's entries (`freeSkill`, `quickSkill1`, `quickSkill2`, `growth1`–`growth6`,
+  `learning1`–`learning8`) and the parameters `improve-skill.skill` and `gain-benefit.entry` are
+  open enums that take its key.
+
+The near-future and wasteland d20 tables are the book's own tables.
+
+## Rule readings
+
+- **Learning picks** may take any skill: every Learning table ends with Any Skill.
+- **Random start:** one Growth and two Learning rolls (the book's example), a d4 for zero to three
+  negative mutations, and every mutation point on single rolls.
+- **Rerolls** of a duplicate or barred mutation are a uniform draw among the ones still open,
+  which is what rerolling until one fits gives.
+- **An edge's bonus skill after creation** (Mutant or another at 5th level) counts as three skill
+  points, as a focus's does.
+- **Stigma details:** the d12 column follows the nature (texture for size, amorphous and
+  mineral changes).
+
+## Not modeled
+
+Vehicles, mods, the high-tech loot tables (a placeholder item stands for them), psychic scars,
+traumatic hits beyond the trauma target, and the many once-per-scene or narrative powers, which
+are text only. Low Resistances (the day's first Physical, Mental or Evasion save rolled twice)
+is text only too: a roll effect can't end itself once it applies
+([#68](https://github.com/pixelqueue/opencharacter/issues/68)).

package/content/armor/assault-suit.yaml

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+id: armor.assault-suit
+type: armor
+tags: [sealed, powered]
+fields:
+  ac: 18
+  enc: 2
+  traumaMod: 2
+  techLevel: 4

package/content/armor/harmony-armor.yaml

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+id: armor.harmony-armor
+type: armor
+fields:
+  ac: 18
+  enc: 0
+  traumaMod: 1
+  cost: 1500
+  techLevel: 4

package/content/armor/high-tech-street-clothing.yaml

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+id: armor.high-tech-street-clothing
+type: armor
+fields:
+  ac: 13
+  enc: 0
+  subtle: true
+  cost: 200
+  techLevel: 4

package/content/armor/insurgent-armor.yaml

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+id: armor.insurgent-armor
+type: armor
+fields:
+  ac: 18
+  enc: 1
+  traumaMod: 1
+  cost: 1000
+  techLevel: 4

package/content/armor/leathers.yaml

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+id: armor.leathers
+type: armor
+tags: [primitive]
+fields:
+  ac: 13
+  enc: 1
+  subtle: true
+  cost: 25
+  techLevel: 0

package/content/armor/military-body-armor.yaml

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+id: armor.military-body-armor
+type: armor
+tags: [heavy]
+fields:
+  ac: 16
+  enc: 2
+  traumaMod: 1
+  cost: 300
+  techLevel: 3

package/content/armor/plate-carrier.yaml

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+id: armor.plate-carrier
+type: armor
+fields:
+  ac: 14
+  enc: 1
+  traumaMod: 1
+  cost: 200
+  techLevel: 3

package/content/armor/protection-field.yaml

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+id: armor.protection-field
+type: armor
+tags: [powered]
+fields:
+  ac: 18
+  enc: 0
+  subtle: true
+  techLevel: 5

package/content/armor/protective-sport-gear.yaml

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+id: armor.protective-sport-gear
+type: armor
+tags: [primitive]
+fields:
+  ac: 14
+  enc: 1
+  cost: 50
+  techLevel: 3

package/content/armor/scrap-mail.yaml

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+id: armor.scrap-mail
+type: armor
+tags: [primitive, heavy]
+fields:
+  ac: 15
+  enc: 2
+  traumaMod: 1
+  cost: 100
+  techLevel: 2

package/content/armor/scrap-plate.yaml

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+id: armor.scrap-plate
+type: armor
+tags: [primitive, heavy]
+fields:
+  ac: 18
+  enc: 3
+  traumaMod: 1
+  cost: 300
+  techLevel: 2

package/content/armor/shield.yaml

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+id: armor.shield
+type: armor
+tags: [primitive, shield]
+fields:
+  ac: 14
+  enc: 1
+  techLevel: 0

package/content/armor/terran-explorer-suit.yaml

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+id: armor.terran-explorer-suit
+type: armor
+fields:
+  ac: 16
+  enc: 0
+  traumaMod: 1
+  subtle: true
+  cost: 500
+  techLevel: 4

package/content/armor/vacc-suit.yaml

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+id: armor.vacc-suit
+type: armor
+tags: [sealed]
+fields:
+  ac: 13
+  enc: 1
+  cost: 250
+  techLevel: 4

package/content/armor/vanguard-plate.yaml

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+id: armor.vanguard-plate
+type: armor
+tags: [sealed, powered]
+fields:
+  ac: 20
+  enc: 2
+  traumaMod: 3
+  techLevel: 5

package/content/backgrounds/courtesan.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.courtesan
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: talk
+  quickSkill1: perform
+  quickSkill2: connect
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: any-stat-1
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: talk
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: talk
+  learning2: perform
+  learning3: connect
+  learning4: trade
+  learning5: sneak
+  learning6: notice
+  learning7: heal
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/crafter.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.crafter
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: fix
+  quickSkill1: trade
+  quickSkill2: connect
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: mental2
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: physical2
+  growth5: fix
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: fix
+  learning2: trade
+  learning3: connect
+  learning4: notice
+  learning5: sneak
+  learning6: know
+  learning7: program
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/diplomat.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.diplomat
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: talk
+  quickSkill1: lead
+  quickSkill2: connect
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: mental2
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: talk
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: lead
+  learning2: talk
+  learning3: connect
+  learning4: perform
+  learning5: know
+  learning6: sneak
+  learning7: notice
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/entertainer.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.entertainer
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: perform
+  quickSkill1: lead
+  quickSkill2: connect
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: any-stat-1
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: physical2
+  growth5: perform
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: perform
+  learning2: lead
+  learning3: connect
+  learning4: talk
+  learning5: trade
+  learning6: sneak
+  learning7: any-combat
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/farmer.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.farmer
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: work
+  quickSkill1: survive
+  quickSkill2: exert
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: physical2
+  growth5: any-skill
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: any-combat
+  learning2: survive
+  learning3: work
+  learning4: notice
+  learning5: exert
+  learning6: heal
+  learning7: fix
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/healer.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.healer
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: heal
+  quickSkill1: notice
+  quickSkill2: know
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: heal
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: heal
+  learning2: notice
+  learning3: know
+  learning4: talk
+  learning5: administer
+  learning6: connect
+  learning7: drive
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/hunter.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.hunter
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: survive
+  quickSkill1: shoot
+  quickSkill2: sneak
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: survive
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: shoot
+  learning2: survive
+  learning3: sneak
+  learning4: notice
+  learning5: drive
+  learning6: heal
+  learning7: any-combat
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/noble.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.noble
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: lead
+  quickSkill1: notice
+  quickSkill2: connect
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: lead
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: lead
+  learning2: connect
+  learning3: notice
+  learning4: any-combat
+  learning5: trade
+  learning6: administer
+  learning7: talk
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/outcast.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.outcast
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: survive
+  quickSkill1: sneak
+  quickSkill2: any-combat
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: any-stat-1
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: survive
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: any-combat
+  learning2: survive
+  learning3: sneak
+  learning4: connect
+  learning5: heal
+  learning6: exert
+  learning7: talk
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/priest.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.priest
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: lead
+  quickSkill1: talk
+  quickSkill2: connect
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: mental2
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: connect
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: lead
+  learning2: talk
+  learning3: connect
+  learning4: perform
+  learning5: know
+  learning6: heal
+  learning7: notice
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/raider.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.raider
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: any-combat
+  quickSkill1: survive
+  quickSkill2: notice
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: any-combat
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: survive
+  learning2: notice
+  learning3: fix
+  learning4: lead
+  learning5: sneak
+  learning6: connect
+  learning7: any-combat
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/rider.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.rider
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: drive
+  quickSkill1: any-combat
+  quickSkill2: survive
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: drive
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: drive
+  learning2: any-combat
+  learning3: survive
+  learning4: notice
+  learning5: trade
+  learning6: exert
+  learning7: connect
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/savage.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.savage
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: survive
+  quickSkill1: any-combat
+  quickSkill2: sneak
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: physical2
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: physical2
+  growth5: survive
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: any-combat
+  learning2: sneak
+  learning3: survive
+  learning4: exert
+  learning5: notice
+  learning6: heal
+  learning7: survive
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/scavenger.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.scavenger
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: notice
+  quickSkill1: fix
+  quickSkill2: survive
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: mental2
+  growth3: physical2
+  growth4: physical2
+  growth5: notice
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: survive
+  learning2: drive
+  learning3: fix
+  learning4: trade
+  learning5: sneak
+  learning6: notice
+  learning7: any-combat
+  learning8: any-skill

package/content/backgrounds/scholar.yaml

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+id: backgrounds.scholar
+type: background
+fields:
+  freeSkill: know
+  quickSkill1: talk
+  quickSkill2: administer
+  growth1: any-stat-1
+  growth2: mental2
+  growth3: mental2
+  growth4: mental2
+  growth5: know
+  growth6: any-skill
+  learning1: know
+  learning2: talk
+  learning3: administer
+  learning4: connect
+  learning5: heal
+  learning6: fix
+  learning7: program
+  learning8: any-skill