Obsession (Action)

You are fascinated with a specific craft, task or ability. Your fascination is a goal in itself, sometimes to your peril. You spend much time learning the every variation and nuisance of this single ability. It is rare but possible to be fascinated with several things by taking the schtick several times, usually related fields like singing and playing the zither.

Dwarfs are fascinated by crafts, and are justly famous for their artistry, their usual taciturn natures channeled entirely into a single pursuit.

Goblins may become fascinated with certain tricks, illusions, machinery, flight, mechanics or pyrotechnics. It brings great esteem, but low life-expectancy.

Hobgoblins see this gift as a way to channel their violent energies into peaceful, harmony-bringing pursuits. Many hobgoblin craftsmen fall for the joys of overspecialization.

Fascination is much more narrow and precisely defined than skills. Examples include gem cutting, gardening, playing the lyre and so on. With this particular task, you roll an additional bonus die.

Fascination is especially prized in craftsmen and artists, and objects thus made sometimes even display wondrous magical enchantments, as appropriate to their nature.

Fascination does not generally apply to combat or action scenes. The only exception is hatred: you can be obsessed with hatred of a specific type of foe that has wronged you greatly, and can then apply the fascination bonus towards attacks against such opponents. Examples include the common Dwarf hatred of Orks. Such hatreds are seen as a perversion of fascination by most civilized creatures.