| From: | Crisper Than Thou <crisper@*******.ARMORY.COM> |
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| Subject: | Schtuff |
| Date: | Mon, 27 Jul 92 20:29:54 PDT |
is best, and what I would use: One can make Spirit foci for the types of
spirits one can summon, and Spell foci for the types of spells one can
cast.
About, what, skill foci? Sounds like far too much munchkinism without much
role-playing payback. However, I have messed around with similar ideas
(yes, yes, okay :) and I see some potential. After all, you're far more
likely to pick a lock with that 119-piece professional tumbler set than
the 12-piece amateur set picked up at a flea market. The way I would do
it would be to rate kits and items-- 1 to 6 or more, cost (and weight)
increasing faster as you increase rating (i.e. a Rating 6 might cost more
than twice as much as a 3, and weigh more than twice as much as well).
The item would give extra dice to the skill roll the user is making, re-
gardless of what fallback/default skill is used. Wait, I'm not sure I'm
making any sense and I'm nowhere near a rulebook so I can't come up with
any good examples. Grrrr. Wait a second.
Okay, let's say Joe Decker is working on a maglock using an Electronics
Toolkit. We'll give it a rating of, say, 3. He has a skill of, say, 5.
He would roll 8 dice altogether. The maglock, if it got a resistance
test, would just roll against his skill of (5), not the total of the
skill and the kit. If he didn't have Electronics skill but was instead
falling back on, say, a Computer skill of 6, he would roll 9 dice
but would be at +2 target numbers.
Anyway, one could say a kit's rating cannot increase the user's skill by
more than 50%, or make similar limitations.
I dunno. Like I said, this was something I sorta played around with but
haven't actual used yet. Your mileage may vary.
--The Elder Dan
"Entertainment might as well be a fucking rocket launcher.
Too bad it's in the hands of the enemy...."
Ps: Wait, what was the third question...? :)
