Nuclear Beasts

Buying Skills

I'm thinking that Trivial skills should probably be more of a footnote or optional rule than anything else.

So, the rules would be like this...

• Buying a Major Edge: 8 checks
• Buying a Minor Edge: 4 checks
• Improving or acquiring a Skill: 2 checks
• Improving or acquiring a Minor Skill: 1 check

Minor skills concern things that aren't particularly important to the game. They're basically "hobby" skills. They should be both narrow and fairly unimportant in play, otherwise they'd be regular skills. Note that minor skills can be improved twice as fast as regular ones.

There's also the generic "Expertise" skill. Expertise skills are rarely rolled on their own, but are usually combined with multiple regular skills instead. For example, "Expertise: Spear" would apply to Melee when fighting with a spear, Craft when making or repairing one, and Shooting when throwing one.

Posted by Kiz at June 10, 2004 04:36 PM