Back in a Buffy-verse campaign run with BESM rules, one of my players had a half dragon who had "Been there, done that" as a skill. He could use it to know random bits of knowledge or to have a contact in a town or something, since he was hundreds of years old.
We also had a collector of magic goodies who had "I might have it back at the shop" that was designed like your truck, but was only good for obscure bits of magical paraphenalia.
I love using skills like that.
LC
On July 23, 2007 10:21 pm, Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
> >> Sounds like a CoC character of mine - a prospector in the Arizona
> >
> > desert, he
> >
> >> had a "I've got it here in my truck" skill at some percentage - the
> >
> > chance
> >
> >> that he'd be able to find some off-the wall thing in the back of the
> >
> > truck.
> >
> >> Dynamite? the October 1931 issuse of Life Magazine? A list of serial
> >
> > numbers
> >
> >> of bills stolen in a bank heist? Who knows *what* is in the truck!
> >
> > Interesting illustration. The first seems OK to me, the latter is
> > going just that bit too far for me to be comfortable with it (in HQ,
> > that is, let alone CoC). It's all about where you draw the line.
>
> Oh, I had a list of stuff that I could reasonably expect to be in the truck
> (shovels & picks, copies of mining engineering magazines, ammunition for my
> rifle, etc); and the Gm was liable to put a penalty on the ability if the
> "whatever" was too far out. Also, he might suggest a lesser thing with
> similar effect - not a copy of the Life Magazine issue itself, but a book
> that mentioned the right subject, that kind of thing.
>
> It *did* cut down on the amount of "stuff" I had to list on my character
> sheet - and as I recall, the percentage wasn't high to begin with - maybe
> 20% or so (it's been, um, 20 years since that campaign...).
>
> RR
> He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
> R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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