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Message no. 1
From: Ray & Tamara <macey@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Professionalism and Perception
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 09:48:38 +1000
> Adding dice, even divided by two, can sometimes get abused (although your
> specific suggestion sounds OK to me), so what I prefer to do is something
like
> this: make a stealth roll against some target, and every success (or two
> successes) reduces the target number for your perception test by one.
That
> way, once the TN is 2, it boils down to how good you are at noticing
details(your
> int), while in bad circumstances (high TNs) it provides a cruicial edge.
Make
> players take a complex action to analyze the situation if they want to
use their
> skills like this, by the way.

I like this. It sounds like it would work well, and it covers the problem
that Georg was talking about.

Ray
Message no. 2
From: Georg Greve <greve@*******.HANSE.DE>
Subject: Re: Professionalism and Perception
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 08:33:33 GMT
Ray & Tamara (macey@*******.COM.AU) wrote:
: > this: make a stealth roll against some target, and every success (or two
: > successes) reduces the target number for your perception test by one.
: That
: I like this. It sounds like it would work well, and it covers the problem
: that Georg was talking about.

Same here. I'd say you make a wound only modified skill test against
TN 4 and each success reduces the TN for perception by 1. This way a
professional character would get a -3 average, which sounds fair to
me. The complex action for analyzing the situation makes perfect sense
to me...

Later,
Georg

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