New Technique of the Week: an ongoing thread

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen

Sounds to me like a technique that could also be usefully applied to Hiking, Riding, and Skiing, at least, and probably other movement skills too, like Flying and Swimming.

Some of those, certainly. Let me think about that, and it might need a different name.

Thinking about this a bit more, though, just buying up the skill for complementary bonus purposes feels a bit... unexciting, I guess. I'd suggest switching it around a little, making it a roll against [Skill]-5, but if you succeed, you get double the usual complementary bonus: +2 on a success, or +4 on a critical success.

Something doesn't feel quite right about this, although I agree the technique is not exciting as it stands. How about reducing the incidence of critical failures for the person being guided?