In general, I like this idea. I especially like the idea of turning a number of skills into specialties and making all specialties optional.
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Body Language Skill eliminated. Detect Lies gets a +2 bonus if you can see your target's body language.
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I'd also change Detect Lies to Detect Emotions, with Lies being an optional specialty.
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Parachuting Now a specialty of piloting
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Completely disagree. Same with SCUBA - both should be separate skills. They're both pretty much completely different from anything Piloting or Submarine can be used for.
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Um, making everyone automatically able to swim wouldn't work for me at all.
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That doesn't make everyone automatically able to swim. Also, it makes it so people who
are trained in athletics
can swim - this is one skill I, personally, always seem to forget to add to any character I make. In fact, almost every character I've seene except ones with Swimming as a big part of their nature have the Swimming skill missing even though not being able to swim is actually really rare in a modern setting.