St-based skills
 

Are there any ST-based skills in RAW? If no, why not?

Re: St-based skills
 

No. They break the system, especially for nonhuman sizes.

Re: St-based skills
 

What do your mean? Show your work.

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Imagine some Giant with ST 100, now take a random VH skill. His default skill level will be 93. Kinda broken in my opinion.

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Rule of 20 would stop that, but yeah - a single point would give a humongous skill.

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Example that I'm pretty sure happened in some supplement of 3rd edition, which gave Intimidation a Default to ST-5 (or was it -10?).
This was OK for humans, more or less.

Now take a race with a natural size and strength 5 times that of humans (rough numbers). Suddenly they all have Intimidation 45.

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But couldn't you make the same argument for any stat? I mean, I know there isn't any one race with ridiculously high DX or anything like that, but still. ANYONE with REALLY high DX would be just like that for pretty much every skill.

Re: St-based skills
 

You can expect most species and individuals to have other stats in the 1-20 range. You can expect ST to vary from less than 1 (but more than 0) to about a hundred, especially once you include vehicles.

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Just to be contrarian, but if you met someone from such a race and they tried to intimidate you, how well do you think they'd do?

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Quite well. Now, if they try to intimidate another member of their own race, they also succeed pretty much automatically. Which is less correct. The fix is to have Intimidation modifiers based on relative SM. Which is what we have in 4e.