My player has Argue (18) ( He likes to be some kind of a nuisance, and
always take the opposite point of view ) and use it at -4 to bargain with a
merchant.
At the end of the game session he pays his 4 points to buy Bargain ( 14 ).
I would let him write : Argue 18 ( Bargain -4 )
If he later increase his Argue to 19, his bargain would be 15 automatically.
He could also buy the following 4 points as normal ability increase in the
course of the game in order for him to raise to Argue 19 ( Bargain ).
After that I would consider that any use of Argue of Bargain shall let him
raise both of them buy raising the main ablity Argue, bargain becoming a
keyword of Argue.
I feel it to be in the keyword and heroic philosophy.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Lieb [SMTP:steve_at_...]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 7:36 AM
> To: 'hw-rules_at_egroups.com'
> Subject: Improv skills
>
> On the matter of raising "general" skills vs. more specific skills, I
> think
> I see that we're all agreeing that it's a cheap thing if you allow players
> to raise the general skill for the same cost as a specific one - i.e. that
> there should be some benefit to specialization in this sense, yes? What
> about the simple expedient: if you use an Ability (or whatever) with an
> improvisational modifier you can, at the end of the adventure:
>
> 1) take the improvised skill at 12 or what you were at after the modifier,
> whichever is better for 1 HP; or,
> 2) improve the general skill by 1 for the hp cost of (-1*improv modifier
> applied) [the least bad one throughout the adventure, if multiples apply].
>
> Therefore, let's say you have Bluster 18. You need to bargain a merchant
> down, so the narrator says sure, you can use Bluster at -3. Then, at the
> end of the adventure you could specifically take Haggle with Merchant 15
> (for 1 hp) or improve your Bluster by 1 for 3 hp.
>
> (Yes, I know then there's no penalty for people improvising at -1, but
> that's not much improvisation....)
> So the effect is, the less relevant an experience is to a general skill,
> the
> less easily its lessons are applicable to that skill (if you REALLY need a
> rational basis).
>
> Comments?
>
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