| From: | Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com |
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| Subject: | Skill Ratings (Re: Dice Rolls) |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Aug 1999 23:04:39 -0700 (PDT) |
than 6?
> > I mean, it would imply a greater degree of proficiency than just
adding another dice. Maybe -1 per every skill level or every second
skill level over six?
> > Any thoughts on this?
>
> The only problem with that, IMO Hunter, is that not only is the
character in question still improving his general odds at succeeding at
a target number, s/he (it?) is bending the base to the odds even more
in their favor. We've tinkered with this idea with some of our
characters here in the past, and decided that it was just flat
out...too much.
> -K
I've done something similar to that and I think it works, but it was in
SR2 and I haven't used it in an SR3 game. Basically, it only effects
physads/adepts with the improved skill power.
I think that merely giving an additional die doesn't represent the
power well enough. I see the magic as giving the adept the ability to
perform INCREDIBLE feats. How are difficult feats represented? By a
higher target number. So what I did was reduce the target number for an
action by an adept with a high amount of improved skill power/s. This
lets them do the somersaulting between someone's legs and attacking
them from behind, or shooting the cigarette out of someone's mouth-type
tricks and actually have a decent chance of succeeding.
Basically the effect is this: having more than one die of improved
skill lowers the target number of any test of the appropriate skill on
a sliding scale. 2 dice gives you a -1 to the target number. 3
additional dice (5 total) gives you a net -2. 4 more dice (9 total)
gives you a -3. And so on.
I think it's fair (in SR2), because, IMO, SR2 physads were hard done
by.
*Doc' ducks...*
I don't know if it'll be unbalancing in SR3, though. I suspect it
wouldn't. Very few characters will ever have more than 3 or 4 improved
skill dice in a single skill.
*Doc' shoots the toothpick out of his own mouth while somersaulting
through the legs of a troll on a trampoline and scratching his butt...*
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)
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