08-01-2018, 04:17 AM | #31 | |
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08-01-2018, 07:24 AM | #32 | |
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Handwriting by profession is interesting, because some folks do write... but this occasionally makes their handwriting worse. Doctors focus on speed, and the point is that they wrote it, rather than actually communicating information. The results include tight, eye-squinting cursive that is very regular but no more legible for the effort. People who write only for their own benefit tend to end up with a similar effect. I think I see the best handwriting in artists and teachers. And for the teachers, that often includes people who just need to write on boards.
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08-01-2018, 10:16 AM | #33 | |
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08-01-2018, 11:25 AM | #34 | |
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It is also an institutional critical failure that there isn't a simple weed-out test for would-be officers and NCOs who can't read maps - at least in the arms of the service where map-reading might be essential. In GURPS terms, I'd call inability to read maps a limited form of Non-Iconic, perhaps called "Dysgeographia," worth -80%, plus Incompetence (Navigation/TL3+, Geography/TL, and Cartography). I've also come up with a new disad which is the opposite of Absolute Direction. It is appropriate for many machines and even certain people: No Sense of Direction Variable You can get lost in your own home – even if you live in an efficiency apartment! There are two versions of this trait: Poor Sense of Direction (-1 point/level): For each level of this trait, you have a -1 penalty to any task which requires you to give or follow directions to find a place or to navigate. This includes any practical application of Navigation skill, as well as to use of Area Knowledge skill to recall the location of an otherwise familiar feature. Unless you can see, or otherwise sense, your destination at all times, or you have a clearly-marked, constantly-present trail, you must also roll vs. IQ+1, or Area Knowledge skill+1, with a -1 penalty per level, to find your way to an extremely familiar location, such as the corner store a block from your house, or the church you’ve been attending every Sunday for 30 years. In any situation where it is easy to become confused about your direction or location (e.g., labyrinths, jungles, inside a fog bank), you have double your normal penalties. Alternately, the GM can rule that you automatically become lost. If you get lost, you must make another IQ or skill roll, with double the normal penalties, to retrace your steps or otherwise get back on track. On a critical failure, you become so hopelessly lost that you will never get back on track without aid or blind luck. People who know about your problem react to you at -1 per two levels level (rounding up) if you attempt to navigate or give directions. You may take up to 9 levels of this trait. After that, you must take No Direction Sense. No Sense of Direction (-10 points): You have absolutely no sense of direction. You don’t can’t follow directions at all, and have no sense of your location. You cannot learn the Navigation skill, and you automatically fail at any task which requires you to give or follow directions, or to find a particular geographic location, such as using Area Knowledge skill to find a familiar location. Unless you can see, or otherwise sense, your destination at all times, or have a clearly-marked, constantly-available trail you can follow, you automatically get lost even when attempting to travel to an extremely familiar location. If you do get lost, you must roll vs. IQ-10 to retrace your steps or otherwise get back on track. Otherwise, you wander helplessly. At this level, you just don’t “get” geographical relationships. For example, if you regularly ride a bus to work, you can’t keep track of where you are by looking out the window. Even following its route using a GPS receiver and a mapping program is beyond you. Instead, you must count the stops or ask the driver to tell you when to get off (handing him instructions written by another person is best). At the GM’s option, you might have also have trouble with even simple spatial relationships. For example, if somebody tells you to look in the cabinet above the stove in the kitchen, even if you are in the kitchen and can see the stove, you might have trouble figuring out where to look! One or two levels of Poor Sense of Direction might be realistic for an otherwise normal person. More than that, or No Sense of Direction, is only appropriate for artificially created entities, such as TL7 or 8 experimental robots, or for people with severe brain injury. If you have any version of No Sense of Direction, you cannot have 3D Spatial Sense or Absolute Direction (at least, not at the same time or in the same form). |
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08-01-2018, 11:29 AM | #35 | |
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Seriously, the task of learning to write in a legible, orthographically-correct fashion takes a normal child a couple of years to learn. The Oh-So-Cute kiddie scrawl with reversed letters is normal until about 7-8. After that, it's time to break out the educational psychologists to check for actual learning disabilities or developmental disabilities. |
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08-01-2018, 04:30 PM | #36 |
Icelandic - Approach With Caution
Join Date: Jan 2005
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Dyslexia
I was thinking 16 to 26 or 30 year old.
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08-01-2018, 05:14 PM | #37 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Dyslexia
Unless you know their school using computers for every subject it can, they had more than enough every day practive by age 8 for prace will make it better to be disproven, ther school might not teach cursive any more but the dest mean they dont teach hand writting
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08-01-2018, 05:25 PM | #38 | |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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A modern person's required level of handwriting is typically 'can legibly print a form or mailing address'; while they are increasingly available as fillable PDFs and the like, you're still going to be printing like that multiple times per year. If you can't do that, you might have a legit issue; otherwise, you've just achieved minimum required proficiency and not bothered to get better (or allowed your skill to decay). |
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08-01-2018, 05:42 PM | #39 | |
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Early in my career I was a loader on the LT's tank, which meant I had a hatch to stick my head out of next to the tank commander's. During road marches he would have one of the wing tanks take the lead on a road march, and have the platoon sergeant (bringing up the rear) call higher with phase line crossings and the like, and he had me keep my finger on where we were on the map. I'd point out what phase line we'd just crossed, what phase line was coming up, any turns or bridges and the like and keep track of whether we were ahead of schedule or behind... and I was a PFC. Dude was a really good LT but couldn't read a map to save his life. ...and you can't just ditch 10% of your personnel. Recruiting and retention is hard enough as it is. |
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08-01-2018, 06:08 PM | #40 |
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Re: [Basic] Disadvantage of the Week: Dyslexia
I remember being downright humiliated and shocked when my 9th grade science class had an entire section dedicated to reading maps. It felt like a ridiculous waste of time when the legends were right there.
I guess I was taking my ability for granted.
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