This is a stupid question so don't make fun of me...

[Soniv]

However, it makes for an entirely new problem: Without the skill dice as a delimiter, how does one mandate how many skills a person can list for familiarity? If there's no set limit, a person could just find and list every skill in existance. A further explanation of the house rule would help considerably.

[Allst Beamem]

Ok, this is the way I do it.

Lets say you are using the Young Senatorial template, and wile on a space transport your ship gets damaged and you decide to try and fix it.

Well the young senatorial template does not come with "space transports rep" on it, so, In my game you would roll your tec attribute minus 1D becouse you dont know a hydrospanner from you arse

But sence the template does come with blaster, if you didnt put any build dice in it you would get to roll your full atrabute die becouse you at least have some familuarity (spelling?) with it.
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[Jamfke]

That sounds like a reasonable house rule to me.
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[Soniv]

But it only works when using pre-made templates. If you're using a background that doesn't fit into a pre-existing template, what then? How does one determine how many or what type of skills one is familar with?

[Jedi Skyler]

It's not a question of "how many?" It's a question of, "What specific skills could I reasonably expect a character of my profession/ experience/ background to know?"

And realistically, you're not going to think of everything at character creation necessarily. Even people who've gamed for decades will still leave skills off their sheets at creation, only later to slap themselves upside the head and say, "Duh! My guy ought to know how to do ___________ (insert skill here)!"

If it's plausible, the GM will probably even let you add it to the sheet. Granted, it'll only be at Attribute level, but who cares? At least your character can reasonably be expected to know how to do it, when the need arises.

[Gry Sarth]

Well, I do think this house rule should have alimiting factor to the number of untrained skills you can add to your character sheet. Otherwise some would say "well, I'm making a bounty hunter/pilot who used to be a noble, so I should have these skills, and these skills, and this group as well, and those others..."
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[Jamfke]

But...couldn't you be a Bounty Hunter Pilot from a Noble family...
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[Jedi Skyler]

Agreed. It really needs to be PLAUSIBLE.

As long as your GM isn't along the same lines as the judge who awarded over 100 thousand dollars to the little old lady who sued McDonalds after she burned herself on the coffee...

[vong]

personally i think that you can use all the skills untrained (except the advanced ones). haveing 4d in your dex shows how agile you are. so even if you didnt write down brawling parry, someoen with 4d will be beter at dodgeing someone going to punch them then someone who has 2d dex. getting teh values up shows your general training in that area, so you would still be able to show basic knowledge in all thoes skills.
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[Jamfke]

Sorry, just being sarcastic there...hence the
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[masque]

This is going to be totally off topic, but:

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