Aquabatics Prerequisites

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Originally Posted by Characters Book p145

Semi-Aquatic: You "walk" on flippers,
like a seal. Use Basic Move as
your basic water Move and 1/5 this as
your ground Move - that is, reverse the
normal relationship between ground
and water Move. You suffer standard
skill penalties in the water. 0 points.

(emphisis mine)

Originally Posted by Molokh

I can't imagine someone with Semi-Aquatic ever willing to learn Aquabatics. It will be a skill with a built-in penalty for its main use! Read carefully: You suffer skill penalties under water, yet move at 1/5 on the ground too! Now, if there was a way to suffer skill penalties on land instead of underwater (I once asked for such a swap's legality in a thread), that would be another matter.

This is a good point. Semi-aquatic makes me think of seals and the like... they are disadvangaged on land not in water. I can't think but that the quote above is wrong in the italiced text...

(and yes, I'm resurrecting an old question as I come back around to it, sorry all)