>> Sounds like a CoC character of mine - a prospector in the Arizona
> desert, he
>> had a "I've got it here in my truck" skill at some percentage - the
> chance
>> that he'd be able to find some off-the wall thing in the back of the
> truck.
>> Dynamite? the October 1931 issuse of Life Magazine? A list of serial
> numbers
>> of bills stolen in a bank heist? Who knows *what* is in the truck!
>
> Interesting illustration. The first seems OK to me, the latter is
> going just that bit too far for me to be comfortable with it (in HQ,
> that is, let alone CoC). It's all about where you draw the line.
Oh, I had a list of stuff that I could reasonably expect to be in the truck (shovels & picks, copies of mining engineering magazines, ammunition for my rifle, etc); and the Gm was liable to put a penalty on the ability if the "whatever" was too far out. Also, he might suggest a lesser thing with similar effect - not a copy of the Life Magazine issue itself, but a book that mentioned the right subject, that kind of thing.
It *did* cut down on the amount of "stuff" I had to list on my character sheet - and as I recall, the percentage wasn't high to begin with - maybe 20% or so (it's been, um, 20 years since that campaign...).
RR
He was born with the gift of laughter and the sense that the world was mad
R. Sabatini, Scaramouche
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