Re: [HOE] Skill progression

[Darrin Bright <darrin@neobright.net>]

At 11:34 AM 1/11/2002 -0600, Nick Zachariasen wrote:
> > I like the related skill setup in deadlands (-4 to use related skill) but
> > I don't like that it means you have to buy 5 (6?) different skills to be
> > able to use any gun without a big penalty (let's face it, even at 5d12, -4
> > sucks!) So I wanted to come up with a way to reward people from buying
> > related skills, and this is what I thought would work:

I thought you paid three bounty points/chips to buy a related aptitude at 
your highest aptitude level. That is, if you've got Shootin': pistol at 
5d12, you can spend 3 BPs to pick up any other related Shootin': aptitude 
at 5d12.

As for the penalty for trying to roll on an aptitude you don't know... the 
rules for that changed 2 or 3 times in a short period of time, and I'm not 
sure what's "official" anymore. I thought it was one die, -4/-8.