Skills for Underground Construction

[pgb]

Not answering the original question directly, but I'd allow a limited amount of Lifting ST that affected only digging, as another way of representing higher effective ST due to technique or physique Probably only costing 1/level i.e. a (levelled?) perk. There's a precedent with the perk doing a similar thing for effective ST for bow or crossbow use.

[Prince Charon]

Originally Posted by dcarson

A Physical Work(HT) skill with a required specialty to cover any kind of physically demanding job and learning how to minimize the effort, train the right muscles. Like the scrawny old farmer that can toss more bails of hay than the football star teen.

I hadn't considered this, and probably should have, so thank you. Also, see below.

Originally Posted by pgb

Not answering the original question directly, but I'd allow a limited amount of Lifting ST that affected only digging, as another way of representing higher effective ST due to technique or physique Probably only costing 1/level i.e. a (levelled?) perk. There's a precedent with the perk doing a similar thing for effective ST for bow or crossbow use.

I'd say a perk, but it also occurs to me that this could be a technique or optional specialization of the Lifting skill.