06-08-2014, 09:38 AM | #11 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
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(SF side note: The story Sally's Edge in Peter F Hamilton's story collection A Second Chance at Eden is about a high-bio-tech version of animal fighting). |
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06-08-2014, 10:00 AM | #12 | |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
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There is also Veterinary, for coming up with ways to enhance fighting performance that can get past drug testing. Bill Stoddard |
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06-08-2014, 10:32 AM | #13 |
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dreamland
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
Can this apply that easily to anything else? Wizard Handling sounds very useful for a teacher in a wizarding school, Angel Handling in a setting where angels are pig-headedly good, Pixie Handling when you need to deal with those troublemakers, etc. Namely, can it affect IQ6+ beings? If so, then I have a bunch of character concepts that can work in gurps now... (Mind, any of those might actually just be a specialized Psychology, but who knows?)
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06-08-2014, 10:52 AM | #14 | |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
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Should one be able to use Animal Handling as an Influence skill on animals?
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06-08-2014, 11:04 AM | #15 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
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06-08-2014, 11:23 AM | #16 |
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Land of Enchantment
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06-08-2014, 11:28 AM | #17 | |
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Norway
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
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By the way, how come Beast-Kin and Tree-Kin weren't carried over to 4th edition? |
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06-08-2014, 11:36 AM | #18 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
Because they are composed of components that are available separately - a type of Empathy, a Talent (with included reaction bonus, personally I'd have separated that too...) and Pacifism with a limitation.
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06-08-2014, 12:31 PM | #19 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
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Such a bargain :) |
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06-08-2014, 01:59 PM | #20 |
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: Norway
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Animal Handling
Well, they did come with a bonus that isn't available as a separate trait, according to what I know, and that was the ability learn Animal or Plant college spells, respectively, as if they were one difficulty level easier. Though I guess that may have been a little OP?
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