Question about Raising a Skill from Default

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by Ultraviolet

IIRC you can't 'double default'

So if the master skill A gives a default on skill B, and skill B gives a default on skill C - you must spend points on skill B in order to use skill C at default. I donøt know if you can get away with only a single point (which might not mean anything) in skill B or if you need to raise it a full level.
This is how 3rd ed was, and I believe 4th says this as well.

Yes I understand all that. But like I was saying, if you put a point in it to get it from default does it still count as a default?

Body Sense defaults to Acrobatics at -3
Acrobatics defaults to Erotic Art at -5
And Erotic Art would be the main skill

So it would look like Erotic Art (A) DX+5 [20]-20
Acrobatics (H) DX-2 [1]-15 (raised from Erotic Art default)
Body Sense (H) DX-2 [1]-12 (raised from Acrobatics Default)

Originally Posted by RobKamm

And it does on B173:

That seems to be for skills in which you have no points, or that's how I read it. I could be wrong.

Originally Posted by Kraydak

Note that if you need to raise a full level, then it is possible to lose a default, so a single point in B needs to be all that is needed to have C=default(default(A)+X) where X can be 0.

Hmmm.

I'm just trying to answer a question a player had that I didnt have a satisfactory answer for, and of course the Game had to be today.

Thanks everyone by the way.

Ghostdancer