Roderick and Ellen Robertson wrote:
>
> > >
> > > I must admit I don't like the word ability. Skill is what comes to
> > the
> > > tongue.
> >
> > Badly phrased, that, or maybe I'm just being disgusting...
>
> Shocking, these kids and their sniggering insinuations!
>
> Re "Skill" vrs "Ability" - we chose to use the more general "Ability"
> because not everything your character can do is a real skill - Wealth,
> Relationships and Personality abilities let you do stuff, but aren't really
> "skills" in the more formal sense of the word. Now, we could have used
> multiple names for "useful things you can do" - Skills, Passions, etc, but
> we decided to go with the generic "Ability" instead.
>
> RR
>
I just don't like the similarity between Ability and Affinity. They are just too close for my comfort and ease. One or the other, but not both.
Still, it could be worse -- we could have runge-spewers.
Jeff
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