Scaly Behaviour I (sage ability)

Scaly behaviour I is an amateur-status sage ability in the study of Amphibians & Reptiles which allows limited prediction of an amphibian or reptile's attack and movement in animals of semi-intelligence or less. This skill is gained through pattern recognition after observing thousands of amphibians and reptiles over the space of a lifetime.

When in melee with an amphibian or reptile, a character will have the benefit of knowing, prior to declaring an action in that round, what the animal means to do next — attack the character with fangs, tail or claw, take flight, turn and attack an opponent to the right and left of the character, give ground and so on. This prescience — one round in advance — will provide the character with some knowledge should the character decide to break off the combat first, cast a spell (knowing the animal will not attack) or take another appropriately timed answer.

Upon becoming an amateur, prediction is limited to only one action from one animal per round. For example, if a animal were to attack with both left and right claws, then the character would only be able to know, by choice, either the left or the right. However, for each additional 10 points of knowledge a character gains, an additional action in a given round can also be known (an scaly animal with four attacks could be fully predicted if the character possessed 40 points of knowledge about amphibians and reptiles).