Re: [HOE] Re: Military Back grounds and careers

["Kai Tave" <kaitave@harborside.com>]

Also, remember that skills deteriorate after a period of disuse.  If your
accountant hasn't done any accounting in 13 years, he might be a little
rusty.  He probably won't forget the basic math required for his job, but he
might forget things like what deduction goes where, the best loopholes, etc.

A high-level skill indicates some frequent use.  If a character has a high
level of, say, Professional: Law, it's possible that he acts as a kind of
wandering mediator or somesuch (a good choice for Law Dogs).

--Kai Tave

>>One thing that I think is missing is anything to allow players to have a
>>decent set of normal background skills.
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>Hey all,
>This is something that I have wondered about myself.  I'm a fan of the old
>Twilight:2000 and in that game, character generation revolved around going
>though 4 year terms and gaining skill points for that job (If you were a
>marine helo piolt you would get X points in Flying and y points in
>whatever.)  Different jobs would give different skill sets and the longer
>you stayed in a job, the better you got at it.
>
>I had thought about doing that for HoE, but then I realized that something
>like that would be covered by the Profession and Trade skills.
>Everytime I make a character with a profession like that I give them a
>professional skill at a level.  In my games I use that as a generic defult
>for skills that would best fit.  For example and Ex-Science teacher could
>use that skill instead of Academia to represent some exposure to that area.
>A sales clerk could use it as a form of persuasion.  Another example would
>have a former cop using his Profession:Cop skill to find forensic evidence.
>
>Also instead of saying "To be an accountant you get level 3 in
>Trde:accounting  level 2 in Scrutinize and level 4 in choose ties" they
>could be guidelines "To be a former Bus Driver you should have Drivin':Bus
>and Tinkerin.  That way the actual skills would be lef up to the player/
>(Maybe they were a bad Lawyer so to reflect this they only had an
>Academia:Law 1 or 2)
>
>Just a thought
>
>Doc out
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