TABLES OF APTITUDES

The following three tables describe all aptitudes of the various species
for the various skills. These are not necessary for winning in Crawl,
neither explicit nor implicit. The qualitative information behind this
sheet (i.e., which species is good at which tasks) can be obtained in
two other, less sophisticated ways:
- Read the species section in the manual about strengths and weaknesses.
- Look at which combinations of species and job are recommended
  (lightgrey).

If you consider figuring out such things yourself to be fun, stop
reading now. Otherwise, just go ahead. The lower a value, the better the
aptitude. 100 is the Human standard. Please note that many things affect
how quickly a character will actually learn a skill. Thus, the numbers
below are good enough for comparisons among species, but not necessarily
among skills.

The abbreviations used for the skills are:

General skills, Experience   Melee and Ranged Combat     Spellcasting and Magic
--------------------------   -----------------------     ----------------------
Arm - Armour                 Fgt - Fighting              Spc - Spellcasting
Ddg - Dodging                SBl - Short Blades          Coj - Conjurations
Sth - Stealth                LBl - Long Blades           Enc - Enchantments
Stb - Stabbing               Axs - Axes                  Sum - Summonings
Shd - Shields                M&F - Maces & Flails        Nec - Necromancy
T&D - Traps & Doors          Pla - Polearms              Trl - Translocations
                             Stv - Staves                Trm - Transmutations
Inv - Invocations            UC  - Unarmed Combat
Evo - Evocations
                             Thr - Throwing              Fir - Fire Magic
                             Slg - Slings                Ice - Ice Magic
Exp - Experience             Bws - Bows                  Air - Air Magic
                             Crb - Crossbows             Ear - Earth Magic
                                                         Poi - Poison Magic

Please do not edit this table directly in docs/aptitudes.txt -- make
changes to the template in docs/template/apt-tmpl.txt.


                Arm Ddg Sth Stb Shd T&D   Inv Evo                 Exp
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                Fgt SBl LBl Axs M&F Pla Stv UC    Thr Slg Bws Crb
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                Spc Coj Enc Sum Nec Trl Trm       Fir Ice Air Ear Poi
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