Bang Skills

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by whswhs

. . . my recollection is that ! skills in 3/e had penumbras of skills that weren't named explicitly. On one hand, if you were a Medic!, you could roll against it for skills that weren't normally part of being a doctor, but that would help you be a doctor in a particular case . . .

3e did have The Sword! and Science! which were like that, but IIRC, they were the only ! skills in 3e. They were designed individually, and there were no general rules for creating wildcard skills. Those were added at 4e, and some flavour was lost in creating the generic versions.