Escape from binders skill

[Forceally]

I got a question that I hope someone can answer. I'm an escape artist, and my hands are restrained somehow. Doesn't matter if the restraints are Mandalorian manacles, stun cuffs, binders like the ones that appeared in ANH. I want to free my hands from them. I can't use the Force, so powers like telekinesis or contort/escape aren't options for me. Furthermore, the restraints aren't tight enough that I need to twist or dislocate joints to get my hands free. I believe you need to make at least a Dexterity roll to get my hands free. But is there a specific skill that I can use to free my hands? I'm pretty certain it's not security since I'm not trying to pick a lock to get into a treasure chest, so as to speak. Under RCRB rules, I would need to use the Escape Artist skill to do this. Anyone got any ideas?

[CRMcNeill]

I agree with you that it would be a Dexterity skill. Apart from that, I would suggest looking at the Difficulty chart on the Security skill to give you some ideas for Difficulty level. The scenarios won't match, but it will give you a rule of thumb.
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[Bren]

[Forceally]

crmcneill, I agree with you that I would need to make a Dexterity skill roll in order to slip my hands out of the restraints. I was just wondering if there was a specific Dexterity skill that would do the job. If I wanted to life a wallet or slip a note into someone's pocket, I would use pick pocket.

Bren, I can appreciate the specifics of your response, but I was wondering if there was a specific Dexterity skill that would do the job. If I were to bypass a security lock to a room containing classified info, I would use security rather than Technical.

[Bren]

[garhkal]

I have not seen anything official, though i do remember there someone (holonet i think) posting a contortion skill.. iirc it was str related, not dex.
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[Whill]

D6 Adventure has a skill called "Contortion", a Reflexes skill (one of the two Dexterity attributes). D6 Adventure and Space have a Reflexes/Agility skill called "Sleight of Hand", which is a more generally named Pick Pockets skill.

In my Star Wars D6 game, I've chosen to go with contortion only being an aspect of the Dexterity, meaning it is a base-attribute ability that can't be improved as a skill (such as the 'strength to resist damage' aspect of the Strength attribute). I do however have an advantage available at PC creation called Contortion which basically costs 1 skill die to get a +1D to all base-attribute contortion attempts, in effect being a contortion skill that can only be raised 1D in PC generation. Contortion could potentially work the same way as an alien Special ability as well. And yes I agree that the difficulties of using the DEX contortion ability would be higher than the Force power usage.

I've changed the DEX skill Pick Pockets to Sleight of Hand which covers not only picking pockets but also sleight of hand tricks and archaic mechanical lock picking (as opposed to breaking higher-technical locks which would fall under the TEC skill Securty). Perhaps the individual uses for Sleight of Hand could be possible skill specializations.
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[Fallon Kell]

I I seem to remember (A) Magician could be used for this type of thing.
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[Gamer]

I would require it to be (A) contortionist
Some of those binders are not the type you can squeeze your hands through without something nasty happening.
A more advanced contortionist could do it though.

The term is 'Escapologists' professionals are not 'escape artists', that is the local people you know like a 'garage band'.

Magian escape artists are more of the subterfuge type, in ortherwords it IS rigged, they already have keys or the prop IS rigged.

[Bren]

[Gamer]

The term didn't exist then.
But that is exactly what he is called now.

[Fallon Kell]

[Gamer]

Yes, which is different than many Escapologists who are known to dislocate body parts in the extreme end of their craft.

Here's another example, enterologists.
These are the wierdos that contort themselves os much they can squeeze themselves into vases, boxes, planters and so on.
If you gave a PC (A) enterology (no its not the study of your intestines there is a different 'enterology' and a name they gave themselves i honestly believe) that should give them some better ability for sneaking past security systems or getting into tight spaces alot better than anyone else right.

That's where I was going with (A) contortionist or even (A) escapeologist to really combine things up.

But as a general skill i think that would make them skilled far too quickly especially if you specialised in 'binders'.

[garhkal]

Though not official, in Sparks we did a review of all skills, whether fan made or those in books somewhere, and of our 7 man council, only 1 voted for this to be included.. the other 6, 3 of them were "No there is a force power for it", 2 were just no and 1 was "As an advanced skill or not at all.
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[Raven Redstar]

Are you talking about the "Contort/Escape" force power garhkal?