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Originally Posted by Kromm
Many knowledge-oriented skills would benefit from a conditional default like that for Research (p. B217): "At the GM's option, when researching material connected with a 'book-learned' skill [...] you may roll against that skill at -2 instead, if that would be better [...] (but this is not a general default level)." I would say that if you're attempting to hack a bureaucracy pertinent to some field at which you're a learned professional, Administration ought to default to your professional skill at -2. For instance, I'd let a banker roll against Finance-2 for Administration to deal with a fiscal bureaucracy, or a lawyer roll against Law-2 for Administration to deal with a judicial one.
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That makes excellent sense. Perhaps it should go into 5/e if the day comes for 5/e.
Bill Stoddard