Post by apeloverage on Sept 14, 2007 4:52:23 GMT -5
Another way you could use skills, that I've just thought of, is that a pre-set number of times per game session players could declare that they get a bonus on this saving roll (to an amount that's also pre-set), because it's like something that happened in their past - "why, this is just like the old lock on my parent's wine cupboard. I remember you had to twist the lock just like *this*".
Presumably there'd be some understanding that you have to come up with a reason as to why the character is getting the bonus, not just say "I'll take my bonus on this one."
That way
i) no skill list is necessary.
ii) no book-keeping is needed: the character doesn't declare that they have 'lock-picking', just that they get a bonus on *this* particular attempt to pick a lock, for whatever reason.
iii) it still creates individual characters - possibly more so than picking from a list. You could argue that knowing that the character's parents used to lock the wine cupboard, and that the character used to pick the lock when they were out, makes more of an interesting character than knowing that this character has Pick Locks.
iv) there's no problem with one character's skills being way better than another's, or the GM having to work in opportunities for characters to use their skills: everyone gets exactly 3 bonuses of +5 (or whatever it might be) per game session.
Feedback?
Presumably there'd be some understanding that you have to come up with a reason as to why the character is getting the bonus, not just say "I'll take my bonus on this one."
That way
i) no skill list is necessary.
ii) no book-keeping is needed: the character doesn't declare that they have 'lock-picking', just that they get a bonus on *this* particular attempt to pick a lock, for whatever reason.
iii) it still creates individual characters - possibly more so than picking from a list. You could argue that knowing that the character's parents used to lock the wine cupboard, and that the character used to pick the lock when they were out, makes more of an interesting character than knowing that this character has Pick Locks.
iv) there's no problem with one character's skills being way better than another's, or the GM having to work in opportunities for characters to use their skills: everyone gets exactly 3 bonuses of +5 (or whatever it might be) per game session.
Feedback?
