Re: [HOE] Why is Blastin' a Knowledge aptitude?

[john tfs <johntfs1@yahoo.com>]

--- Theo McGuckin <tsm@jlab.org> wrote:
> > > Actually, finding a teacher is not as hard as
> you > make it sound.  
> My point
> is that it's pretty hard for sykers to learn new
> powers outside their
> discipline already and I don't think that adding to
> that difficulty is
> necessarily a good thing.
>

Well, good.  Nothing worthwhile is ever easy.  As to
your "rest of the Posse" point, consider that they
might like the Jericho Academy as potential allies. 
Perhaps you might take a *gasp* social Edge like
"Friends in High Places" to reflect that your Syko has
a relationship with the folks there.
 
> > One other thing I've considered doing is altering
> the beginning skills
> > of characters.  Instead of putting 1 point each in
> Climbing and Sneak,
> > I'd put them into Persuasion and Scrutinize (to
> reflect the fact that
> > most humans will spend much more of their time
> talking to other people
> > than climbing rocks or sneaking around).
> 
> I think the starting skills come from the fact that
> most any kid learns to
> sneak past his parents (or worse these days) and go
> exploring. Which
> usually involves things like climbing trees (well,
> piles of rubble now). I
> could see maybe adding persuasion (as long as you do
> it for everyone
> there's no real balance issue) since most all kids
> learn how to get what
> they want, but scrutinizing someone seems like more
> of a learned skill. It
> goes beyond telling whether or not "daddy's mad" and
> into more subtle
> areas.
> 

Spend a good portion of your life talking with other
folks (which almost everybody does) and you'll get at
least a beginner's idea of how to read other peoples'
desires and motivations.

> One of the websites has a "Pre-war Life" edge that
> basically gives you
> points in common skills "free" (well you get like 6
> points for a 3 point
> edge). I thought that was a good idea. I mean a
> savage who's lived on his
> own for 13 years isn't going to have persuasion or
> scrutinize.
> 

Why not?  Savage humans group together socially. 
Maybe some wierd kid who was raised by Devil Bats
wouldn't have those skills, but most other folks
should.

> Theo McGuckin - SysAdmin, JLab, Safety Warden (Bldg.
> 85)
> 
> 
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> 	Some even try to achieve them.
> 
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