Complementary Skills Houserule For High Skill

JCurwen3 · 04-28-2013, 01:22 PM

I've considered a houserule modification to Complementary Skills from Action 2: Exploits, p. 5.

To give a greater benefit to high levels of the complementary skill, instead of a flat +1 for success and +2 for critical success, I'd change it to +(Skill / 10) for success and +(Skill / 5) for critical success.

This wouldn't change the results for skill levels between 10 and 14. From 15 to 19, critical success would be improved to a +3, but success would still get you only +1. From 20 to 24, success will give you +2, +4 for critical success. And so on.

However, for skill 5-9 you'd only get a +1 from critical successes, and under skill 5 you don't get a chance for a complementary skill bonus at all, which makes sense to me.

Any pitfalls? Does this seem reasonable?

04-28-2013, 01:22 PM	#1
JCurwen3 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Brooklyn, NY	Complementary Skills Houserule For High Skill I've considered a houserule modification to Complementary Skills from Action 2: Exploits, p. 5. To give a greater benefit to high levels of the complementary skill, instead of a flat +1 for success and +2 for critical success, I'd change it to +(Skill / 10) for success and +(Skill / 5) for critical success. This wouldn't change the results for skill levels between 10 and 14. From 15 to 19, critical success would be improved to a +3, but success would still get you only +1. From 20 to 24, success will give you +2, +4 for critical success. And so on. However, for skill 5-9 you'd only get a +1 from critical successes, and under skill 5 you don't get a chance for a complementary skill bonus at all, which makes sense to me. Any pitfalls? Does this seem reasonable? __________________ -JC