Here's a thought:
A Skill Focus is an expansion onto an existing skill. It generally only costs 1 check.
For example, we could have a Streetwise/Area Knowledge skill and say that you start with a Focus on your hometown. For 1 check, you can add another town to the list of towns that you can use Streetwise in. Similarly, you could start with a number of Foci in your Melee skill equal to its level... you can only use it with those weapons. For 1 point each, you can add new weapons.
I'm not sure that's worthwhile, really, but it's an easy way to support specializations.
A similar example is the Literacy feat... once you take it, you get to roll Ancient Lore to understand english writing. Additional ancient languages can be added for a check.
Also, you can add the howl languages to your Awareness skill for 1 point each... they're Hyena Laughs, Lion Roars, Wolf Howls and the Silent Speech of Bats.
Alternately, I could just make all of those into Minor Skills and then you'd get a level per check. I'm not sure that they're worth even that much, though... maybe they should just be Minor or even Trivial Edges instead.
Posted by Kiz at June 11, 2004 10:57 AMCommentsPost a comment