Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2013 20:14:09 GMT -5
foreword: not everything i post here is necessarily for me or something that i desire to have in the rules. sometimes i post things that are intended to bridge the desires of others. sometimes my bridges collapse and bury me under. 
penalties for lack of skill:
for all skill checks except weapon skills, the adventure text/author is completely free to assign whatever penalty he wants for being non-skilled. for non-weapon skills, this presents very little burden to the adventure text. the situations precipitating non-weapon skill checks are too variable to put a hard-numbered penalty on them. the fact that sometimes they are assisted and sometimes required should make this easy to accept.
weapons skills are ALWAYS assisted (unless, perhaps, it is a peculiar weapon). the penalties here can be easily delineated and logically applied to every situation.
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A character using a weapon with which he possess no skill incurs a DX penalty equal to the number of die the weapon uses for damage.
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examples:
a character with no weapons skills...
...using a dagger will suffer -1 DX
...using a staff will suffer -1 DX
...using a cutlass will suffer -2 DX
...using a broadsword will suffer -2 DX
...using a battle axe will suffer -3 DX
of course, he must first have the ST required to wield the weapon. this provides a measure of penalty for not having skill with a weapon but the penalty adjusts to the weapon being used instead of putting a severe, blanket penalty of -4 DX for all weapons.
penalties for lack of skill:
for all skill checks except weapon skills, the adventure text/author is completely free to assign whatever penalty he wants for being non-skilled. for non-weapon skills, this presents very little burden to the adventure text. the situations precipitating non-weapon skill checks are too variable to put a hard-numbered penalty on them. the fact that sometimes they are assisted and sometimes required should make this easy to accept.
weapons skills are ALWAYS assisted (unless, perhaps, it is a peculiar weapon). the penalties here can be easily delineated and logically applied to every situation.
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A character using a weapon with which he possess no skill incurs a DX penalty equal to the number of die the weapon uses for damage.
---
examples:
a character with no weapons skills...
...using a dagger will suffer -1 DX
...using a staff will suffer -1 DX
...using a cutlass will suffer -2 DX
...using a broadsword will suffer -2 DX
...using a battle axe will suffer -3 DX
of course, he must first have the ST required to wield the weapon. this provides a measure of penalty for not having skill with a weapon but the penalty adjusts to the weapon being used instead of putting a severe, blanket penalty of -4 DX for all weapons.