Thoughts about wide proficiency

[JulianLW]

Originally Posted by RedMattis

One crazy idea would be to simply make a big "Melee Weapons DX-E" skill and then have all weapons be techniques going to max +0. Maybe a base level of -2 for easy melee weapons, -3 for average, and -4 for hard. Same for unarmed and guns. The former which would default to/from "Melee Weapons". Stuff like Karate's increased damage, or Judo's throws would be (somewhat affordable) advantages along the lines of Weapon Master.

I don't think this is a crazy idea at all. It's basically very similar to having all Melee skills default off one another, i.e. you pay one point (like a perk) to get the basic DX defaults that you'd have without spending any CP at all and then the ability to improve all defaults from there. You're just adding the Weapon Defaults as Techniques option. I think this is a very good solution (but I don't use GCS).