Survival skill FINDs terrain for Ambush; Tactics skill to best utilize it?

RGTraynor · 11-03-2023, 06:53 AM

Another No vote; the skills just cover separate things, and Survival is no more a valid (or an obvious) skill to gauge the tactical potential of an area than that it replaces Farming to gauge the agricultural potential of an area, or Prospecting to gauge the mineral extraction potential of an area. Is there any overriding reason why Tactics would not be the obvious skill to use?

Area Knowledge factoring in? No, not really. It might be useful in knowing that a particular area is good for an ambush, say, but not in knowing exactly why it is, or how to exploit it.

11-03-2023, 06:53 AM	#11
RGTraynor Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Pioneer Valley	Re: Survival skill FINDs terrain for Ambush; Tactics skill to best utilize it? Another No vote; the skills just cover separate things, and Survival is no more a valid (or an obvious) skill to gauge the tactical potential of an area than that it replaces Farming to gauge the agricultural potential of an area, or Prospecting to gauge the mineral extraction potential of an area. Is there any overriding reason why Tactics would not be the obvious skill to use? Area Knowledge factoring in? No, not really. It might be useful in knowing that a particular area is good for an ambush, say, but not in knowing exactly why it is, or how to exploit it. __________________ My gaming blog: Apotheosis of the Invisible City "Call me old-fashioned, but after you're dead, I don't think you should be entitled to a Dodge any more." - my wife It's not that I don't understand what you're saying. It's that I disagree with what you're saying.