[Basic] Skill of the week: Esoteric Medicine

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Players commonly decrease Per for their IQ-oriented characters.

They do? This hasn't been at all common in my groups.

Making Diagnosis Per-based while keeping Physician IQ-based might do well to emphasise the importance of both.

I think asking for Per-based Diagnosis is quite often reasonable, if GM and player have a similar understanding of medicine. Large imbalances in that understanding can easily cause confusion.

(Now, making DX important for Surgery without either nerfing surgeons nor making IQ meh for surgeons - that's trickier.)

Yeah, that's one's hard. The nearest thing to a solution I have is lifted from the 3e Guns rules. Give +1 to surgery rolls for DX11 or +2 for DX 12, for actual practical surgery. High Manual Dexterity applies.