Limitations on skills

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by FenrisLoki

I am struggling to find exactly how to recreate a limitation for a character I have.

I want to have the character have Stealth, but only usable in a woodland setting. Specialization makes her better in woodlands and lowers the skill in non settings, but that isn't the effect I'm going for. Same with making a technique. I want it that she'd be rolling at default, as if she didn't have the skill at all, if she's not in the woods.

I saw Dr. Kromm's article in the Alternate GURPS article for turning skills into Advantages, but this seems to make such a skill extremely expensive. It just doesn't then feel like a limited skill use to me. It is almost an Accessibility limitation, but those aren't applied to skills.

Any ideas?

Just ask the GM if you can use an optional specialization for Stealth. Then specialize by terrain type. So Stealth (Woodlands) becomes an Easy skill.

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Christopher R. Rice

Just ask the GM if you can use an optional specialization for Stealth. Then specialize by terrain type. So Stealth (Woodlands) becomes an Easy skill.

Ahem:

Originally Posted by FenrisLoki

Specialization makes her better in woodlands and lowers the skill in non settings, but that isn't the effect I'm going for.

My Two Cents: Make a Talent, call it Woodland Ranger (or some such) and pile in some skills (Like Bow, Camouflage, Climbing, Survival (Woodlands), Stealth), then make it only cost like half as much as a standard Talent (in this case 3 per level) and only have it apply in the Woodlands. I'd allow for it to be bought up to level 6 or 8 (to more readily differentiate between Stealth (Everywhere) and Stealth (Woods)).

If you also take the Optional Specialty, yes you'll still have Stealth usable everywhere (but you have that at default anyway), but it'll be 6 higher when you're in the Woods (if you take 4 levels of the Talent).

[coronatiger]

My suggestion:

1. Learn Stealth with optional speciality (Woodland), making it an Easy skill.
2. Take this quirk: Regular Stealth can't use the default of Stealth (Woodland) -2.