You got the dice rolling. A d8 does not usually give you a lot to deal with. A lot of times you have to make hard choices about being bad at skills. That's really where the game gets dangerous. I ranked the skills according to most needed to least needed to give the player an idea of how to choose but getting hit with the need to pass a roll that you don't have any skill in can hurt a lot. You might be able to get by with just the first three skills but if you're stuck trying to replenish a resource and you don't have the skill, 5 skill points hurts a lot.