Rule Mechanic: Defining Interests

[shootingwomprats]

Something to encourage players to create a background.

Defining Interests: Characters have hobbies, areas of personal study and natural aptitudes. These things are typically explained in a players background. Whenever that subject, interest or aptitude comes up in game play give a +1 pip modifier to the appropriate attribute or skill roll. These are not skills. A character may have up to three defining interests.
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[jmanski]

Examples?
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[lurker]

Welllllll, I may be jumping the gun (as my replacement characters haven't been approved), but here you go.

The background for one of them is that he grew up on a colony in the mid rim farming and going on his fathers hunts/safaris (lots more to the background but for this that is the key information).

For his interests I gave them as : Rustic living -stories etc etc , wildlife, stories (ancient/epic/heroic).

I'm picturing him being quiet and reserved, but then when there is a SW version of a rodeo, a chuck wagon cook off, or a story about family so & so living and home steading out on my X he will perk up. The same thing about a hunting story or even seeing an Ansal Adams type art. To broaden him a little I added the epic story interest so that he may drag the party to a play about El Cid one time, but then turn his nose up at going to see another more popular movie.


How that is used in game ????
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[jmanski]

I gotcha
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[Naaman]

If its just +1 pip, it really seems like something not worth an actual rule. On the other hand, my child prodegy vong bounty hunter character has a hobby of practicing aincient and modern styles of lightsaber combat. He is also an ametuer anatomist with intricate knowledge of the vital systems of most of the more populous spiecies in the galaxy, giving him unusual knowledge about what it takes to instantly kill or slowly/painfully guarantee a miseable death.

So when wielding the lightsaber which he found in a junk pile on Courescant, he is able to use the purple-beamed weapon to kill efficiently and quickly or else end a fight by motally wounding his opponent in such a way that he cannot be saved except by immediat advanced medical attention. He gets a bonus on all attack rolls and damage rolls fo reflect his special interests.