03-05-2017, 09:51 AM | #21 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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03-05-2017, 10:12 AM | #22 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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Although, now that I think about it, a Focused technique for Survival for a given season probably would make sense. |
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03-05-2017, 11:25 AM | #23 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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So I'm fine allowing some perk to gain access to one "minor" supernatural enhancement like flushing poison for campaigns that aren't rigidly realistic. Its use has so many requirements like knowing what the poison is and only giving bonuses over time, etc.
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03-05-2017, 11:27 AM | #24 |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
My childhood is starting to get some odd write ups. Unusual Training for knowing how to alter my body temperature. Unusual Training for having Discriminatory Smell before diabetes.
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03-05-2017, 11:33 AM | #25 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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I never thought about how small a sub-skill must be to count as a technique, so am not being sarcastic, but truly curious. But Survival probably works best for real world regions like Woodlands; Pacific Northwest, Desert; American Southwest, etc.
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03-05-2017, 11:44 AM | #26 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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The best example from a published work is probably Motion-Picture Camera for the Photography skill, right there in the Basic Set. In a late TL8 campaign, I don't think it's unfair to say that this is close to half of what you'd use Photography for, but it's still allowed as an Average technique with no cap. *I.e., could a real person be much better at this than other aspects of the skill?
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03-05-2017, 11:49 AM | #27 | ||
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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Edit: I've added most of the suggestions in this thread to the root message, and to the index in the Resources sub-forum.
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03-05-2017, 12:16 PM | #28 | |
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Re: Technique family of the week: Focussed
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For Survival, Techniques I'd look at would be Finding Water or Building Shelter, though I'm not sure if they fit your Focussed paradigm.
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03-31-2017, 04:32 PM | #29 |
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Re: New Technique family of the week: Focussed
Here are some more Techniques for this family:
<Specific menu> (Cooking): This is buying up skill in preparing a limited range of related dishes. <Specific code/cipher decryption> (Cryptography): This is buying up skill in decrypting a specific code or cipher. For example, even once the WWII-period Enigma cipher was fully understood and methods for breaking it established, doing the work required skill. <Archetype> (Disguise): This is buying up skill in a specific disguise that isn't impersonation of a specific person. The ever-popular generic homeless person is an example. <Specific code/cipher use> (Electronics Operation (Communications)): This is buying up skill in operating a specific code or cipher, many of which required skill to operate correctly before software took over the task at TL8. <Spirit type> (Exorcism): This is buying up skill in exorcism of a specific type of possessing spirit: demon, disease, ghost, etc. <Specific vehicle model> (Mechanic (Vehicle type)): This is buying up skill in maintaining and repairing a specific model of vehicle. Agenda (Propaganda): This is buying up skill in doing Propaganda for a particular course of action. It's surprisingly common amongst lobbyists, and can lead to politically-appointed jobs in government.
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03-31-2017, 04:46 PM | #30 |
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Re: New Technique family of the week: Focussed
Needs to be fairly strongly limited to avoid being an Optional Specialization instead.
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