New Technique of the Week: an ongoing thread

[RogerBW]

Originally Posted by johndallman

Autopsy (Surgery). Hard, default Surgery, cannot exceed Surgery+4. This allows you to buy up skill in the dissection part of an autopsy, which is fairly standardised.

It certainly feels like a technique rather than a specialty (whereas e.g. neurosurgery, working only on a specific sort of tissue, would be a specialty).

While I like complementary skills, I wonder whether one might want a mechanic more like Environment Suit: the Surgery (Autopsy) could act as a cap to the other investigative skills. (It would be possible for investigator A to do the cutting, and investigator B to draw the conclusions based on A's skill cap, of course.)

One might even extend the Complementary Skill mechanic: you have Autopsy-13, you pass, so your functional Autopsy level on this specific body is at +1 for 14, and that's what caps the investigative skills.