| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | PC's vs us (or normal people) |
| Date: | Sun Mar 10 13:40:01 2002 |
> Also as far as it goes, what skills does the average runner have that
> someone that's ex-military now doesn't have?
Stuff like burglary and (high-level) computer skills, maybe? Also, by far
not everyone here is ex- or current-military -- I'd say you're the
exception rather than the rule :)
> Not to mention the
> fact that I've had access to read ALL of the manuals out there that the
> military prints (as all of you have the same access to read them
> excluding the restricted ones cause they're online). If the reading
> part slides into knowledge skills then so be it but the catch is that
> the books specifically tell you how to do it so it's a knowledge skill
> that's very much usable as an active skill.
This would give you the appropriate background skill. For example, I own an
army demolitions manual, I've read it, and occasionally referred to it for
various game purposes, but I don't think I'd give myself a very high
Demolitions skill -- call it 1. Demolitions Background, though, I'd
probably put at 3 or so, among other things because of this manual. Same
with firearms skills, or vehicle skills -- I suppose have Bike at about 2
because I rode a moped for 2 1/2 years about ten years ago, while all the
rest is nothing but background skills in my case due to doing a fair amount
of reading but having no hands-on experience at all.
My point is that reading about things and/or seeing other people do them
(like being in the passenger seat of a car and watching the driver),
doesn't give you active skills at more than a very low level. You would get
knowledge skills from these activities, but those are much less useful in
stressful situations. When you're trying to remember what the safety catch
on an HK227 looks like again, where it's located, how to align the sights,
and trying to squeeze the trigger without flinching (in the mean time
recalling unimportant stuff like its mechanical details, introduction date,
production figures, expert opinion about the weapon, and so on) using your
SMG Background skill, the guy with the actual SMG skill just flicks off the
safety and presses the trigger just right without thinking even once about
it.
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