List Of your favorite Custom Perks

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by cybermancer2k1

Right. Since Perceptives can take in large amounts of information at a glance (what speed-readers already do when scanreading text), it makes the Speed-Reading skill more efficient.

Just sounds like a bonus to Speed-Reading to me (albeit one that only makes it faster, rather than improving retention).

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by cybermancer2k1

Like...oh, dunno...surfing certain "stimulating" websites (wink, wink)?

Like The Steve Jackson Games Forums, for instance?

[cybermancer2k1]

Conversation Starter: You always know the perfect thing to say to start a conversation, even with perfect strangers. Note that you will have to have some sort of social skills to keep the convo going. A generous GM may let you use this for pickup lines.

[Xilodel]

Good with Names You have excellent recall when it comes to people's names. Your character can normally recall the given names of NPCs perfectly, without a need for an IQ roll. Magical spells, amnesia, and similar extreme memory-erasing effects still affect you normally, however.

[Sam Baughn]

How about this one?

Long Limbs: you have slightly longer limbs than an average member of your race and have trained to take advantage of your extra reach in combat by making lunging attacks. You may increase your effective size modifier for the purpose of determining reach by +1 if you take a -3 penalty to skill during an attack.

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by Perfect Organism

How about this one?

Long Limbs: you have slightly longer limbs than an average member of your race and have trained to take advantage of your extra reach in combat by making lunging attacks. You may increase your effective size modifier for the purpose of determining reach by +1 if you take a -3 penalty to skill during an attack.

I'd probably prefer it as some sort of bonus to using All-Out Attack (Long) or Great Lunge, but the idea's neat.

Actually, as an extra option like Focussed Fury, where you can combine Great Lunge with All-Out Attacks (other than Long is probably best, because that just seems silly) could be nifty.
By spending a point of Fatigue you could extend your Reach without dropping your Swing damage;
or get +4 to hit;
or attack twice at that extended Reach;
or thrust for +2 (or +1 per die) extra damage!

The question is: Should it allow you to use other kinds of Extra Effort while using AoA(Long)? That's, in a lot of ways, the same as the above, but ...
actually I can't think of a real difference. Anyone?

[benz72]

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Interface Bond: You are proficient at operating a complex computer or machine interface (keyboard, game controller, etc.) to the point where you do not have to think about the interface at all. Think touch typist or reflexive pilot.

Mental Rolodex: You recall the most recent contact info for everyone you have recieved that information about. You never have to worry about losing the slip of paper that the girl gave you in the bar, or the business card that got eaten by the washing machine. If people transfer or change phones you do not retain old informtion. If it ever becomes important to know what your best mans dorm number was in college you'll have to look it up like everybody else. (Perk level Eidetic Memory)

O'Riley Filing System: You have developed and memorized a completely non-sensical (to others) way of keeping track of a large number of objects (personnel files, engine parts, magazines, whatever). You always know where each object was put and can retrieve it without a hassle, though if someone moved it you have no better chance of findig it than anyone else.

[The Benj]

Originally Posted by benz72

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Interface Bond: You are proficient at operating a complex computer or machine interface (keyboard, game controller, etc.) to the point where you do not have to think about the interface at all. Think touch typist or reflexive pilot.

What does it do?

Mental Rolodex: You recall the most recent contact info for everyone you have recieved that information about. You never have to worry about losing the slip of paper that the girl gave you in the bar, or the business card that got eaten by the washing machine. If people transfer or change phones you do not retain old informtion. If it ever becomes important to know what your best mans dorm number was in college you'll have to look it up like everybody else. (Perk level Eidetic Memory)

Neat.

O'Riley Filing System: You have developed and memorized a completely non-sensical (to others) way of keeping track of a large number of objects (personnel files, engine parts, magazines, whatever). You always know where each object was put and can retrieve it without a hassle, though if someone moved it you have no better chance of findig it than anyone else.

Doesn't everyone have this? ;)

[benz72]

Originally Posted by The Benj

What does it do?

How about;
Reduce time to input commands?
Reduce skill roll penalties when using the machine under pressure?
Impose a familiarity penalty to use the skill without the specific interface?

suggestions?

[Lord Carnifex]

Originally Posted by benz72

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Interface Bond: You are proficient at operating a complex computer or machine interface (keyboard, game controller, etc.) to the point where you do not have to think about the interface at all. Think touch typist or reflexive pilot.

I might alter it to this:
Zen State Applies to any one DX based skill. You have learned this skill to a point where it's performance is possible without thinking or mental effort. If, at the start of an action or combot scene, you use this skill exclusively - or techniques or defenses defaulted off this skill - your Basic Speed is counted as being 1.0 higher, for the purpose of determining your place in the turn sequence.