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The skill system has been criticized as boxy and
restrictive, disallowing many character conceptions and
not rewarding high ability scores. This article tries to
make skills more playable without breaking the
mechanics or giving the game a foreign feel.

==Primary Skill Areas==
There are still three categories of skill, called PSA.
They are: Military, Biosocial, and Technological. The
optional Mentalist PSA still exists unchanged. When
creating a character, you still must select one of these.

==Learning Skills==
This goes unchanged. Players spend the necessary
experience points (which vary by level and whether or
not the skill is in the character’s Primary Skill Area),
still require training, etc. Just as before, when you
learn a skill, you automatically know and can use all
subskills that come with it.

==Skill Levels==
Skills are still rated in levels, and there are still six
degrees of it. The table below gives a summary:
{| border="1"
|-
!Skill Level || Description || Education/Experience
|-
|1 || Basic Knowledge, Intern || 1 yr
|-
|style="background: #eeeeee;"|2
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| Journeyman, Associates Degree
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| 2 yrs
|-
|3 || Professional, Bachelors Degree || 4 yrs
|-
|style="background: #eeeeee;"|4
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| Expert Knowledge, Masters Degree
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| 6 yrs
|-
|5 || Elite Knowledge, Doctorate Degree || 8 yrs
|-
|style="background: #eeeeee;"|6
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| Mastery, Frontier Leading Expert
|style="background: #eeeeee;"| 10+ yrs
|}

So a character with a level 4 skill is considered an
expert at that skill, and is the equivalent of someone
with six years education and/or experience in that
specific field.

==Using Skills==
{| align="right" border="1"
|-
!Ability|| Mod
|-
|01-10 || -20
|-
|11-20 || -15
|-
|21-30 || -10
|-
|31-40 || -5
|-
|41-50 || +0
|-
|51-60 || +5
|-
|61-70 || +10
|-
|71-80 || +15
|-
|81-90 || +20
|-
|91-100 || +25
|-
|>100 || +30
|}

Skills are used differently.
Previously, abilities had nothing to
do with skill success rates. Thus,
a dexterous character had no
better chance to move silently
than a clumsy one - skill level was
all that mattered. In this system,
abilities DO matter. Depending on
your character’s relevant ability
score, you’ll receive a modifier to
your chance of success based on
the table shown here.

''Note:'' Combat skills do not receive this bonus. Their
chance to succeed is already based on your ability
score.

==Unskilled Skill Checks==
If your character doesn’t have a necessary skill, he can
still take a stab at using it. Normally, this simply
means not receiving a level bonus (do the math but
assume his level is zero). Some subskills, however,
cannot be used unskilled; they simply require too much
training or specialized equipment. Your referee has the
final say on whether or not a skill can be attempted.

''For example, your character wants to sneak past a
guard. The referee tells him to make a Stealth roll
(that’s a subskill of the Environmentalist skill, which
your character has no levels in) with Dexterity as a
modifier. Your character has a DEX score of 75, so you
get to add +15 to the base chance. The base chance
of Stealth is listed as “20% + level” so your chance of
success is 20+0+15=35%.''

==Specialization (New option)==
Some characters in movies and books like to specialize
in a specific application of their skills. This allows them
extra capabilities in that field (subskill). For example,
your character is a skilled Psychosocialist, but you
really excel at the art of Persuasion.

'''Cost.''' Purchasing Specialization costs a number of
experience points equal to what it would cost someone
of that skill’s PSA to purchase the skill at Level 1. The
following table shows Specialization Cost:

{| border="1"
|-
|'''Skill Type''' ||'''Specialization Cost'''
|-
|Military PSA
|align="center"| 3 XP
|-
|Technological PSA
|align="center"| 4 XP
|-
|Biosocial PSA
|align="center"| 5 XP
|}

'''Benefits.''' Whenever you perform an action related to
that subskill, you get +10% to your chance of success.
You can never specialize in more than one subskill of
the same skill. For example, your field medic character
might specialize in Minor Surgery. Later, he cannot
specialize in Major Surgery because he already has a
field of study within the Medic skill.

'''Weapon Skills.''' For weapon skills, you specify
weapon. For example, your character has Beam
Weapons and specializes in Electrostunners. Whenever
you use an Electrostunner you receive a +10 bonus to
hit, in addition to any bonus derived from your level.

'''Martial Arts.''' For this skill, specializing really makes
little sense. Martial Arts is virtually a subskill of Melee
Weapons in this author’s opinion. However, for the
sake of completeness, you can specify specialization in
one of the following applications of Martial Arts:
Punching, Kicking, or Wrestling.

==Other Types of Specialization==
With the referee’s approval, you may be able to
purchase specialization in other types of actions for
which no skill exists. The cost of such a skill-less
specialization is 10 experience points. Examples
include: Defending, Leaping, Driving, etc. This is the
only way to represent personal talent in these areas.
You’ll get +10 to any roll relating to your specialization.

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Terl obar at 19:59, 10 March 2010

Terl obar: Created page with 'The skill system has been criticized as boxy and restrictive, disallowing many character conceptions and not rewarding high ability scores. This article tries to make skills more…'