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03-24-2021, 09:12 PM | #1 |
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Southeast NC
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Emergencies Only Competence
Was trying to figure out how to build a disadvantage where you have trouble with routine situations, but not when it really counted. For example, you're a lousy shot on the range but a beast in battle, or are a danger to everyone around you when commuting to work despite being a world class racing driver. Kind of a reverse version of Low Self-Image. Would that be just a quirk, or maybe a quirk per affected skill?
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03-24-2021, 09:25 PM | #3 | |
Join Date: Jul 2008
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Re: Emergencies Only Competence
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03-24-2021, 09:29 PM | #4 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ronkonkoma, NY
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03-25-2021, 02:34 AM | #5 | |
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Dreamland
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03-25-2021, 06:49 AM | #6 | |
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What you are describing probably needs renaming. First, it isn't truly incompetency because Incompetency prevents learning the skill at all. Second, it really isn't Emergencies Only. As you're describing it, you are competent "when it counts", being, using your example, "a world class racing driver" at work, but that isn't Emergencies Only. If you "suddenly become a world class driver" but only when your car goes into a skid, gets a flat tire while you're travelling at 60 mph on the open road, etc. or "a sharpshooter" when you come under fire from an ambush, but are still incompetent in your day to day job as a racing car driver, or an incompetent shot if you deliberately enter battle, that would be Emergencies Only. Possibly the quirk is "comes through only when the chips are down" |
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03-25-2021, 07:36 AM | #7 |
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Snoopy's basement
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Re: Emergencies Only Competence
Buy relevant Talents with situational (e.g. Emergencies Only) limitations.
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03-25-2021, 09:22 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Re: Emergencies Only Competence
Talents with Emergencies Only works. Also Luck can represent the ability to come through in the clutch.
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03-26-2021, 12:16 PM | #9 |
Join Date: Aug 2018
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03-26-2021, 12:33 PM | #10 |
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
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Re: Emergencies Only Competence
That seems to me to be open to abuse. Anti-Talents are tricky, limiting disadvantages is tricky, combining the two... I would advise against it.
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