RE: [DL] Unskilled check

["Phalen, Pat" <Pat.Phalen@infores.com>]

>In "Tales of Terror: 1877" it says to roll the atribute dice at a -8. 
>For example if you don't have "Fighting: Knife" you would roll your
>Nimbledness (3d10)-8 instead. I don't know if this is any better than 
>the -4 method or not but it is another option.

This was changed again in revised.  Now you roll a single die at -4 (i.e.,
1d10 in your example)  This is because it turned out to be statistically
advantageous NOT to take a skill at low levels if you had an obscenely high
attribute.

Patrick