It probably will engender an "act, don't react" culture, as there is a measureable advantage to getting the starting APs from your best applicable skill.
>(And, after all, improvisation penalties don't affect AP (do they?))
Yes, they do, if you start off with an improv penalty.
>so whoever gets to go first will force the other
>chap to take on the improv penalty, a
>penalty which could totally swing the contest.
Improv penalties do not carry over from one skill to another - if you switch to an appropriate ability, then you lose the improv penalty.
Philip Hibbs http://www.snark.freeserve.co.uk/ Opinions expressed may not even be my own, let alone those of any organisations, nations, species, or schools of thought to which I may be affiliated.
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