Equipment Familiarity

[khorboth]

I nominally use it in most games. But... I've only actually invoked it a few times.

When my genetically enhanced super-soldiers decided to play lazer-tag, I assessed a familiarity penalty on top of the defaulting penalty dropping their skills into the middle teens with beam weapons for the first match.

When a western knight picked up a katana for the first time in combat to replace the one that was disarmed, I assessed the penalty.

In general, when PCs buy new equipment, I remind them to practice with it a bit to gain familiarity.

Mostly, though, I haven't actually had to assess penalties.