With a focus on creating a system that encourages combat interactions, while also not limiting the setting or theme that any given play group may wish to enjoy, Valor: The Heroic Roleplay System very deliberately sets up the player's abilities so they can be defined and customized with careful consideration. This extends to Skills (active or passive abilities that define how effectively a character to succeed during a challenge or combat scenario) and Techniques (actions that are specific to that character), with each giving the player a set of workable components to build them out. In order to ensure that these abilities can be varied in application, while still maintaining their core, detriments like Flaws and Limits are also available for the player to apply to their Skills and Techniques respectively in order to gain the ability to extend those capabilities even further.
