| From: | Quicksilver <jhurley1@****.STEVENS-TECH.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Languages |
| Date: | Thu, 23 Feb 1995 13:36:57 -30000 |
> Some thing that is kind of interesting about the language
> question on the list is that it has a direct impact on the
> SR game itself. According to the rules most of us have
> spent about 5-15 skill points just on languages alone
> if we were to make out characters based on ourselves.
> (I figure 1= good enough to get by 3 = fluent..
> my rating is about and 9 not counting the "computer"
> languages...(two real languages and two pseudo-languages)
Something I do is a holdover from Shadowrun I. You get your native
language a a rating equal to your intelligence+2 (which means that the
average speaker uses that language at a level of 5...). You also get
a number of points to spend in secondary languages equal to your
intelligence. (Esperanto and Sperethiel may not be taken as primaries.)
>
> How many characters in your gaming scessions spend
> that many points on language (who has that many to spend?)
I've been trying to get my characters to spend points on ettiquete skills
(hint to those of you reading)
[snip]
> Are the skill points a little low or what?
> I think college kid in the world has been trained
> to at least level 3 in 8 skills... what about professionals?
Umm. This is my take on skill levels. Level 1 is dangerously low
training. No-one would have such a low skill except at the beginning of
learning the skill (It is ALWAYS better to default than use a rating 1
skill). Level two is amateur level. Level three is apprentice level.
Level four is professional level/journeyman level. This is the
entry-level skill requirement for any technical jobs. A college grad has
a couple of level-4 skills in his/her major, down to a low of 1 in those
classes that he/she didn't go to except for the quizzes.:-) Level 5-6 is
master level. This is the experience level of a proffessional after
several years of work. Level 5 also represents a Masters, level 6 a PhD.
Levels 7-8 is adept level, or olympic level for such skills. The owner
of these skill has a small reputation for this level of skill. And so on
and so forth.
Chavez:"I want to see his eyes when it happens."
Clark:"So use a good scope on the rifle."
