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Anaraxes · 12-11-2019, 10:30 AM

Engineering skills don't include the skills for actually working with the materials involved. A TL3 ship will likely require some Carpentry, for example. There's probably other skills involved (Leatherworking if it's a coracle, Blacksmithing to make any hardware needed like rudder hinges or pins, Sewing for sails, Professional Skill (Ropemaking), etc.)

See the Design-Repair-Use box on B190. The triad concept has its problems, perhaps. But if you're a one-man boat design and construction outfit, you'll need more than one skill even ignoring the "use" part. The text for Engineer does use the word "build", but I don't think it's meant to grant the "tech" skills for actually working on the things you can design.

Most of the electronics engineers I've known did have those tech skills to some degree -- but were usually not as good as the professional techs, and some didn't have them at all. Maybe there's a default, but it's easiest to assume that it's just two different skills that one person happens to have in greater or lesser relative degree.

12-11-2019, 10:30 AM	#3
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Building a ship Engineering skills don't include the skills for actually working with the materials involved. A TL3 ship will likely require some Carpentry, for example. There's probably other skills involved (Leatherworking if it's a coracle, Blacksmithing to make any hardware needed like rudder hinges or pins, Sewing for sails, Professional Skill (Ropemaking), etc.) See the Design-Repair-Use box on B190. The triad concept has its problems, perhaps. But if you're a one-man boat design and construction outfit, you'll need more than one skill even ignoring the "use" part. The text for Engineer does use the word "build", but I don't think it's meant to grant the "tech" skills for actually working on the things you can design. Most of the electronics engineers I've known did have those tech skills to some degree -- but were usually not as good as the professional techs, and some didn't have them at all. Maybe there's a default, but it's easiest to assume that it's just two different skills that one person happens to have in greater or lesser relative degree.