03-05-2013, 04:11 PM | #31 | |
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Many diplomats are lawyers, after all, and many treaties (most, probably) are negotiated, drafted, and fought over by lawyers, but in such a case, being a lawyer is the background for doing "international law" rather than an area of law being practiced. It's a weird way of thinking about it, but I think that's accurate. What I'm trying to say is that "doing international law" is a very different thing than "knowing international law." The latter is really just a specialized knowledge skill, perhaps "Expert Skill (International Treaties)" while the former requires a whole host of skills and probably more than a few Law specialties, none of which I'd actually label "interional law" (upon reflection). Even if I'm not making much sense right now, trust me, "it's different." :-)
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03-05-2013, 04:13 PM | #32 | |
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Now I know how the gentleman writing about the Physician skill felt. Also, what I was also trying to get at by using my wife's listed practice areas as an example is that she can't reasonably have that many little sub-skills. I would broadly group her knowledge as "Administrative Law," but even that is probably overbroad for some people's tastes. I think a happy medium between "Admin Law" and "Mining Law" (which would be unplayably specific) is just "Environmental Law." That would cover most of her practice areas. Perhaps you could add in a "Regulatory Law" specialty as well.
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03-05-2013, 04:18 PM | #33 |
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03-05-2013, 04:22 PM | #34 |
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Re: Calling all lawyers! List of specific fields for Law
For practical purposes, every IQ-based /TL skill will have a large number of subfields by TL 5, and by TL 7 will have so many subfields that it's humanly impossible to be competent in all of them.
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03-05-2013, 04:31 PM | #35 | |
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I'd say something like the number of Electronics Operation skills is in the right ball park.
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03-05-2013, 04:32 PM | #36 |
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Most of the time you communicate better in English than many native speakers. No worries! :-)
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03-05-2013, 04:34 PM | #37 | |
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vered by the Astronomy skill and by the Linguistics skill. An attempt to come up with a list of subskills that makes sense and is still playable failed in both cases. Now I ask the players to define their characters' knowledge in such a skill and use that to determine what the characters are likely to know or not. I would do the same with the Law skill. |
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03-05-2013, 04:41 PM | #38 | |
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Their list bears only a vague resemblance to the one in GURPS... but they're the relevant professionals (at least, they are in Ontario).
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03-05-2013, 04:50 PM | #39 | |
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03-05-2013, 05:11 PM | #40 | |
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International Law is interpretation of existing treaties. is practiced, for such things as international trade for companies and for non-citizen rights for tourists and extrication of forening nationals. So it /IS/ practiced The real difference is who enforces the laws and how binding they are chances a lot more depending who the plantives is and who the defended is. |
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