Re: Re: Keyword ratings vs character age

From: Lightcastle <light_castle_at_...>
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:28:14 -0500

I like this idea. To be honest, I've thought about using Keywords themselves like this for a while. Basically, you can augment any skill that is appropriate with them, instead of them giving you those skills directly. I would let you improvise off them as well, I suppose. You buy up the abilities your character actually wants from scratch like every other ability.

I think I came up with this when I realized I didn't like the idea of personality traits increasing with keyword ability. (Mind you, I could just rule that personality traits just don't count as parts of keywords.)

LC

On Monday 19 December 2005 4:31 am, Madeleine Eid wrote:

> I've been doing this with soldier type characters - taking an ability
> called 'Veteran' and putting the ability level commensurate with the
> number of years the character has served (roughly 1 point per year)
> and using it to augment all the military skills that character has.
> By extension, this can be used with all characters - giving them an
> ability called, say, 'Experienced', and using it as an augment to all
> their skills. Again, you could perhaps set the starting level of
> that skill at 1 point for every year past 20 that character has, and
> start applying negative augments to physical skills once the
> character is past, say, 40 or so.
>
> Either way, in general, these abilities aren't active abilities -
> they can only be used as a source of an augment.
>
> TTFN
>
> Maddy
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