Your skill set

[Azai]

Some conversation in another thread got me thinking, what do people use as their personal skill set? Did you move skills around? Add new ones? Take some out.

For myself, I used to have a full skill list with my edits but I seemed to have lost it.... So I just go with whatever is on the "Complete Skill List" Pdf.
Though one thing I have done is added my custom martial arts as skills under Dexterity.

[Naaman]

Same here: I lost all my house rules skills. Though, I do still have a bunch of advanced skills on my laptop that I use.

[garhkal]

Come again?? What are you trying to ask?
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[Azai]

What skills do you use for your games?

Have you added any? Taken any out? Changed some around?

Ex. I added Disguise under Perception, and Interrogation under Knowledge. As new skills.

[CRMcNeill]

The big ones for me is that I moved Brawling to Dexterity (but damage is still STR based) and folded Brawling Parry and Melee Parry into Brawling and Melee Combat, respectively.

Another thing I've been working on is allowing character to use Knowledge skills almost like Enhance Attribute for skills with more practical application. For instance, if a character is trying a Con or Persuasion roll against, say, a clerk at the local DMV who also happens to be an alien, he could roll his Alien Species / Cultures / Bureaucracy skill and receive a bonus to Con. Not much of one, but enough to give Knowledge skills a bit more in the way of practical application.
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[Fallon Kell]

I've come up with several.

My brother's character has a skill under Perception called Intuition, which allows him access to information he could not otherwise know, and gives me an excuse to tell him things in about the near future during narration.

I have considered running a mentalist character or two with advanced psychology skills, like hypnotism and things like that.

The character I used to play before I started to GM was interested in studying advanced physics in hopes of inventing new types of weapons and technology.
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[garhkal]

Take a look at this thread
http://www.rancorpit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=32&highlight=beast+handling.

That has some i have made up.
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[Azai]

You know garhkal, one of the skills you came up with gave me an idea. Instruction.

Instead of the instruction skill, basically, if a character has 3D or more in a skill then another character they can teach that character the skill for half the value. Unless, let's say, it is a specialization.

Ex. Medicine(A) 9D, Teaching another Doctor who has Medicine (A) 3D. Makes it a normal skill. And normal skills specializations.

Still kinda a rough idea, gotta figure out the rough edges, but there it is.

[garhkal]

If i went that route, i could see both making a roll off.. if the trainee gets higher on the roll than the teacher, he learned nothing.
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[garhkal]

Yes. That way it is not always a certainty. I know several people who failed to grasp something a teacher was putting across.
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[Leon The Lion]

I've houseruled the skill list quite a bit (okay, I houseruled the CRAP out of it ), and am still looking at possible further modifications.

I've folded together:
- Hide and Sneak into Stealth;
- Con and Persuasion;
- all Attack and Parry skill pairs;
- Climbing/Jumping and Swimming into Athletics;
- Capital Ship Shields and Starship Shields into Shields, which also handles all other shields, be they mounted on a ground vehicle, powered armour or planet;
- Communications and Sensors into Electronics Operation, which also handles Electronic Warfare;

I've renamed Running into Gymnastics and made it a general skill for handling Running, Tumbling, Balance, Dance, Skating, Skiing and similiar activities.

I've renamed and generalised Search into Awareness.

I've added an Empathy skill under Percption for reading, understanding and "seeing through" people.

I've broken down the Medicine advanced skill into separate Physician (KNO), Pharmacy (TECH) and Surgery (TECH) advanced skills.

And quite a bit more, including almost completely changing how Advanced Skills work, creating my own Martial Arts system and allowing defaulting between related skills.

Currently I'm seriously considering folding the trinities of Starfighter, Space Transport and Capital Ship Piloting and Repair skills into single Starship Piloting and Starship Repair skills. You could object, calling up the difference between flying a tiny nimble fighter and a massive, ungainly ISD. But Ground Vehicles (and Repulsorlift and Hover ones too) get a single Piloting and a single Repair skill, and no-one complains (that I heard) about the difference between driving a quad motorcycle and a sandcrawler, for instance.
Mostly, I'd like for all similiar skills to have roughly the same level of abstraction. I get the point of view that Star Wars is mostly about starships and not cars, so they get more detail and attention. It simply doesn't feel right for me, though. I just really like my consistency, I guess.
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