06-16-2017, 08:00 PM | #11 |
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Re: Tips for avoiding skill bloat; Pro skills
And I merge Observation, Search, and a few others together as a single skill called Investigation.
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06-16-2017, 08:39 PM | #12 |
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06-17-2017, 06:44 PM | #13 | |
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And every single one of my 30 skills is /Hard. Ten of them are combat skills, of which eight are melee combat.
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06-17-2017, 09:47 PM | #14 |
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This post is helpful. Thanks for your share!
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06-17-2017, 10:13 PM | #15 |
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Re: Tips for avoiding skill bloat; Pro skills
Are these 30 skills posted anywhere, for the curious?
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Re: Tips for avoiding skill bloat; Pro skills
Probably. It's easier for me to just post them again than to search the forums for where else I've posted them. I'm sure I've made some small tweaks to it since the last time I posted it anyway.
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WIZARD: "I can tell you it has a thousand and one tentacles with each a hundred and thirty seven mouths and nine eyes on each tooth of those mouths, and that it has an aversion to quince, but I have no idea how something like that thinks." PRIEST: "I can tell you it prefers to eat virgins and its own cultists, and that anyone who sacrifices a sapient to it has an equal chance of being rewarded with unholy powers or being eaten along with the sacrifice, and that in theological terms it counts as a mortal rather than a demon. Just a very powerful, very foreign mortal." WARRIOR: "Don't sacrifice virgins to it and coat my sword in quince juice, got it." Hidden Lore on Things is...very well hidden. Probably in another spatial dimension of which 3D beings cannot comprehend.
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06-18-2017, 11:33 PM | #17 |
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Re: Tips for avoiding skill bloat; Pro skills
This would be nice released as a web page, or downloadable doc; I think a number of GMs would like this simplified approach.
I see at least one GURPS skills placed under more than one of the 30 Skills: Hiking, under both Athletics and Exploration. Is that intentional? Also, do the categories of Expert Skills, Professional Skills, and all scientific skills go somewhere, or are they left out of the game?
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06-18-2017, 11:45 PM | #18 | ||
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I basically decided to just leave those out of the game, and if someone wanted Attribute-level competence in something off the books I'd only charge a Perk, and for an additional +2 after that would be a second Perk (allowing someone with an attribute of 10 to get a professional level for 2 points regardless of the skill's official difficulty).
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06-19-2017, 12:17 AM | #19 |
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I've also worked to reduce the skill list. I have a post with my house rules here on my blog.
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06-19-2017, 12:35 AM | #20 | |
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