RE: re: Defaults and who has em

From: Jane Williams <janewilliams20_at_...>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:03:16 +0100


> The question isn't
> whether or not a character can gain the ability to birth a
> child, but what
> it is that gives women that ability in the first place. Mechanically
> speaking.

I suspect this may be related to a question I had ages ago, about the default ability level for skills such as "stand up" and "walk". Usually irrelevant, but if your PC is at -50% to all actions, or worse, they may struggle to do things like this. The modifiers for "get pregnant" and so on would apply more often, I would imagine.

As far as I remember, the answer suggested was to set such "automatic success" abilities to 21. Not 1W, 21. I forget quite why.

I think every keyword has a bunch of skills that we just don't usually bother to mention. This would be one of them, under "female human", to be mentioned only if it differs from the norm. "Infertile 17"?

I'd quite like to see some guidance on this sort of thing myself. For instance, I believe all (most) humans have a "fear heights" Flaw, but at what level? If it becomes relevant, we need to know, and to have it consistent.

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