Re: [DL] Buying Concentrations

["David L. Hoff" <dlhoff1@charter.net>]

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Knight of the Wolf wrote:

At character creation, when you buy one skill with a concentration, example: Shootin: Pistol, do you always have to buy other concentrations at 3 bounty points or could you buy the other concentration as a new skill?

 

Here's my full example: One of my players has a character with shootin: pistol at 3, but he doesn't have the points to purchase shootin: rifle at the 3 points for a new concentration. Could he just buy Shootin: Rifle 1 and develop it seperately from Shootin: Pistol?

 

Marshal Wolf

Greetings--

I suppose you could do it that way... but I am confused as to why you would
want to do that. You are going to end up with a character who is a good shot
with a pistol, but really, really sucks with a rifle, and you had to spend
a point to do it. Why not just buy the Shootin: pistol, don't buy any Shootin:
rifle skill, and just default off of your Shootin: pistol when using the
rifle? You suffer a -4 penalty, which means you are going to still suck with
the rifle, but at least by doing it that way, sucking with the rifle is free.
:-) Also, when the character does get 3 bounty points available, he can "spend
some time practicing", and buy the Shootin: rifle concentration at that time.

--David L. Hoff
dlhoff1@charter.net