skiing

jmanski · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:24 pm Post subject: skiing

Watching the Olympics and a question comes to mind: is skiing its own skill? Is it a mechanical skill? Whaddya think?
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:39 pm Post subject:

Depends on the kind of skiing
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Centinull · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 2:53 am Post subject: Re: skiing

garhkal · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 3:26 am Post subject:

Athletics, which iirc is a dex skill.
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jmanski · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 8:00 pm Post subject:

There's an Athletics skill? I assume it would cover all athletic endeavors?
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shootingwomprats · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:04 pm Post subject:

Athletics is a new skill and is not a RAW skill. It covers all manner of athletics. Specializations include the specific sport: skiing, football, rugby, shockball, etc. This is typically a DEX skill but depending on the focus of the sport could default to STR. Hope that helps.
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CRMcNeill · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:05 pm Post subject:

I say STR skill, but then, I moved Running to STR a long time ago, so having all the movement skills under a single attribute makes sense to me.
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griff · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 9:11 pm Post subject:

I say strength too. I have always considered dexterity to be more of hand-eye coordnation, judging distance, that sort of thing. Anything thing that took physical training and physical conditioning I consider strength.
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jmanski · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 8:17 am Post subject:

The dilemma here is that I understand and partially agree with each and every argument. I see it as a dexterity skill because of the balance, a strength skill because of the...er, strength, and a mechanical skill due to the skis nearly being a vehicle (and since beast riding is there it makes me wonder).

I was envisioning a James Bond style chase downhill at a ski resort (which movie had him following the bobsled, For Your Eyes Only?) and I couldn't decide which attribute skiing would fall under.
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Quetzacotl · Commander Joined: 29 Jan 2013 Posts: 281 Location: Germany

Why not make it fall under multiple attributes?

We for us have houserules that you can have "First Aid" and "(A) Medicine" with either Knowledge or Technical.

It's not that rare that a specific Skill needs several of the attributes, so you could either make it a mix (complicated and extremely houseruled) or put it under both and you can choose which one you want to (easy and only a little houseruled).

garhkal · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:07 pm Post subject:

How's about dex (athletics) for the actual use of his skis, with him making periodic stamina rolls to see how well his limbs take it.
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lurker · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:56 pm Post subject:

Centinull · Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 5:36 pm Post subject:

jmanski · Posted: Thu Feb 20, 2014 12:32 am Post subject:

I can get behind that.
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