List Of your favorite Custom Perks

[simply Nathan]

Originally Posted by johndallman

If I've understood this correctly, it under-prices improved defaults considerably.

Say I have one Electronics Repair (IQ/A) specialty at IQ+4, which costs [16]. All the other specialties default at IQ, and it would cost [2] each to buy them up to IQ+1. With Multifaceted, I can buy 8 of them up to IQ+1 for [1], which does seem a bit too good.

Alternatively, I can use Multifaceted to buy two of them up to IQ+3 (a default penalty of -1) for [1], instead of the [24] it would cost to buy the specialties that high.

This only really bites when you have more than [4] in a single skill. That's comparative rare for IQ skills in my experience, but fairly common for DX skills, notably weapons and Stealth.

It's more that Buying Skills from Default is a load of jank to even understand how you're supposed to pay, much less a good price when you do...

[Daigoro]

Originally Posted by johndallman

Alternatively, I can use Multifaceted to buy two of them up to IQ+3 (a default penalty of -1) for [1], instead of the [24] it would cost to buy the specialties that high.

Originally Posted by simply Nathan

It's more that Buying Skills from Default is a load of jank to even understand how you're supposed to pay, much less a good price when you do...

Indeed. If you had 24 points to spend on those skills, you're far better off raising the main skill by 6 levels and bringing all its defaults up with it. But yeah, it's spending 1 point for what RAW says should be 8 points.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by johndallman

If I've understood this correctly, it under-prices improved defaults considerably.

Say I have one Electronics Repair (IQ/A) specialty at IQ+4, which costs [16]. All the other specialties default at IQ, and it would cost [2] each to buy them up to IQ+1. With Multifaceted, I can buy 8 of them up to IQ+1 for [1], which does seem a bit too good.

Or alternately, you can buy every one of them to IQ+1 for [4], by raising the skill you are defaulting from by 1. The perk is a good deal, but the official buy up the defaults is actually overpriced.

The entire concept of skill to skill defaults is pretty broken, and generates more troublesome complexity than it's worth, compared to something like "Many less specialized tasks can be attempted with more than one skill or skill specialization. The GM should impose a situational penalty for attempting something with a plausible but less than fully appropriate one".

[Flyndaran]

It very much seem likes a "some rules are better than no rules" for GMs that simply don't feel comfortable making "too many" decisions on the fly.

[johndallman]

Personal Style. You've developed a personal style for a single artistic skill, or artistic use of a craft skill, which gives +1 to that skill, while you work in that style. You can buy instances of this perk for more than one skill, if they are all for the same style. The drawback of this perk is that your personal style may go out of fashion, at the GM's whim.

[Flyndaran]

Mostly, that sounds like specialization. The drawback fits most skills anyway especially artistic ones.
For example, a character may think specializing in 1950s Disney style is cool, only for all 2D art to go out of style.

I suppose if it only really comes up for NPCs that have a quirk to loving that style, then it fits other perks like Classic Features.

[johndallman]

I made it up when I was tinkering with skills to invent techniques, and found that some skills that definitely get used for artistic work, like Sewing, are DX/Easy and thus can't have optional specialisations.

[Flyndaran]

Oh. I tend to see those skills as the functional aspects of those endeavors and associated artistic versions as the aesthetic forms. Like how Carpentry gets you functional work, while Artist: woodworking says how pretty it is.
But my mind's a bit foggy today, so I hope someone will correct me if I'm miss-remembering things.

[Sense of Duty (Kittens)]

Keyring Master When you get one of your keys, you automatically select the correct one.

[weso12]

What do you guys think of this perk: it might be a bit too powerful since it's basically limiting a 5 point advantage but I don't thinks it would break a game or anything

Men/Women's Fashion Expert: You have the benefits of Fashion Sense, but only for the opposite gender, meaning the reaction bonus never applies to yourself or your own outfits, however whenever you put together someone else's outfit of the opposite gender they get a +1 reaction bonus as per normal. This is more penalizing the normal -20% penalty for only apply to one gender because a big part of Fashion's sense point value is granting yourself a reaction bonus, this functionally denies. It's up to the GM if this reaction bonus applies to a crossdressing individual.