Make contact skill great again.

[whswhs]

Originally Posted by Alonsua

Sure, as I said in the scene I am currently running the highest skill is 15, but the player can claim up to +10 in bonuses for an effective skill of 25 before penalties.

Yes, but then, if you allow a Contact to have effective skill 24, AND you give equipment bonuses or organizational bonuses, they put the PC in the shade.

Everything said about Contacts makes it clear that they are intended to represent small-scale, specialized aid or favors, or for organizational Contacts, the services of routine personnel doing their usual jobs. They can be reliable and skilled, but they're not meant to be godlike.

[Alonsua]

Originally Posted by whswhs

Yes, but then, if you allow a Contact to have effective skill 24, AND you give equipment bonuses or organizational bonuses, they put the PC in the shade.

Thats why I said

Lets agree that 21 is the limit aslong as equipment and complementary skill roll modifiers can be summed up on top. This way a Very Wealthy organization with Contact Group 21 would have an effective skill of 23.

[David Johnston2]

But...Contacts are not organizations. And I don't see the point when the task difficulty modifiers would always match how difficult a task is for the contact.