06-27-2015, 09:45 PM | #11 | |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
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06-27-2015, 09:48 PM | #12 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
One of my players is fond of characters who either are or used to be homeless, so Urban Survival crops up on nearly all her character sheets. Including her most recent PC, a 15-year-old super-powered "street rat."
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06-28-2015, 04:59 AM | #13 | |
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Area Knowledge is about knowing things, not doing them, which overlaps with the other two skills some only because the doing part is often so trivial it doesn't need a roll when once you know. And of course it only works in your familiar area.
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06-28-2015, 11:57 AM | #14 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
I lump Tracking, Fishing, all Survival specialties including Urban Survival, Navigation, and Cartography into a single Per/H skill called Exploration. It also allows HT-based rolls for Hiking.
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06-28-2015, 12:27 PM | #15 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
With that much lumping, I think you're describing something that most GMs would call a ! skill.
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06-28-2015, 07:02 PM | #16 |
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
Seriously guys, this thread is about Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival. I fail to see what a)Influence skills have to do with it, and b) what Sex Appeal has to do with it.
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06-28-2015, 11:57 PM | #17 |
formerly known as 'Kenneth Latrans'
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Wyoming, Michigan
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
Maybe, but I just charge normal skill price for it because those things are way too expensive to use more than one per character.
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06-29-2015, 12:37 AM | #18 | |
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06-29-2015, 02:55 AM | #19 | |
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Urban Survival- never run a campaign as low powered and gritty as that, but I like the idea, tempting to do it as a one-off. Fishing - again, never really done a naval-heavy setting. Seems like a skill that makes sense to exist, but not very exciting to use in play. |
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06-29-2015, 08:49 AM | #20 |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Fishing, Survival and Urban Survival
It seems to me that the difference between Fishing and Survival is that fish are not found on land. If you have Survival for an aquatic environment, I would expect it to include at least some forms of catching fish or marine invertebrates. But land animals either stay on land, or wade into shallow water, or go out on boats; in any case they're working across an air/water interface.
I think it would make sense to say that Fishing has familiarities: tickling, spear fishing, net fishing, and line fishing at least.
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