Fixing Advanced Skills

[Whill]

[Mamatried]

A very (and possibly very flawed) take in this.

Normal skill is Attribute + Skill dice rolled
this also goes for specialities like blaster-light repeater

as to advanced skills, the way I have worked them into my games is something
like this:

Medice (A) Surgery

you need to perform surgery on someone.
you roll First Aid+attribute, then add this up, he has assessed the patient and made him ready for the "cutting"
He now rolls ONLY hsi advanced skills without Atribute,

We now look at what the first aid roll was, how good was it, and would it make the surgery roll a little easier.....
lets say he rolled very good, enough to warrant a +5 bonus to his surgery skill

he then adds this to the roll and viola this is his surgery roll.

in short

Normal skill + attribute. On 10+ Above Difficulty you get +5 to any advanced task due to good preperations.
on a very bad roll you get a penalty to the taks, lets say you roll -5 under difficulty, now you get a -5 to the advanced task.

Now roll the advanced skill dice, do NOT add attribute but add any bonuses.

it has worked so far,

had a player who is a techie, he learned starship engineering and is currenty working on putting togheter a ship for the crew.
he rolled very ood on the most relevant skills, and gianed a +5 binus to his roll in designing and "have made" an advanced weapon system with pop up turrets for two quad lasers.

He managed the roll and made it, though only with the +5 bi+onus added.
it took thus normal-slow time to make.

had he made the roll without the +5 it would have either taken a little less time or normal-faster

(custom time frames)

[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

That's one way to do it.

[Mamatried]

On a skill like acrobatics, advanced under climbing/Jumping.

Lets say it needs 5D Climbing, it is a Strenght skill and will be rolled "normally"
but becuse Acrobatics also require you to be very dexttrous and flexible
this skill has an additional prerequisite attribute in Dexterity, however this is not added to any roll but a value the character template must have as minimum attribute level.

So Acrobatics is Str 3D, Dex 3D and Climbing 5D
you roll normally but does NOT add Dex
Dex is the threshold of the Attribute to be able to learn this skill

So in short a Wookies with his very low dex is unlikely to be an acrobat
an average human likewise

a trained human or any "average 3D or more DEX" aliens yes would have a greater aptitued for learning said skill

thei way I think we can tailor advanced skills with multiple Attirbute requirements, Give them ONE that adds to rolls like normal, but keep the other(s) as a mimimum threshold

I can even see advance starship piloting to be starfighter and capital ship
and a 2D MEC individual most likley will not have the aptitude for being a "pilot" in that league.

Someone like a tie pilot, would not have much issues learning "heavier" crafts etc

[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

[Whill]

[CRMcNeill]

[Whill]

[Mamatried]

One of the issues that to me at least came to mind was simply to re-shuffle some skills,

There are skills under attributes that makes "less sense than it should"
If we take ALL vehicle operation skills, we find these under MEchanical.
Fair ebough, however one is under DEX, Vehicle Blasters.

I wouls argue this should be under Mechanical as well.
then you have some of the "to hit" skills, like Blaster, melee Combat and the like, yet again one is under Strength, as Brawling(to hit)
I am one that would have changed this slightly, maybe placed braling under Dex, bruse you don't need to be hulk to be effective in dealing damage when you use martial arts at least.

or to place the other TO HIT skills under strength, like melee combat .

Once All skills have been reshuffled, I think having the rules for advanced skills as is will work, though adding in that some can have threshold attribute levels to be able to learn.

[Whill]

I've applied that logic and moved several skills around. I doubt we'd have all the same solutions. I'll eventually share my entire skill set with details, but a preview of that is here. I see you already took this idea to a fuller extent here.



EDIT: See the rest of my advanced skill rules in full.
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