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Posted: 25-Feb-2013 16:03 Post subject: My unofficial rules: AToW Quirk Handicap Naturally Hindered
A person with the naturally hindered quirk handicap negative trait has difficulty mastering a specific skill; this quirk handicap is the opposite of natural aptitude; naturally hindered and natural aptitude traits of a same skill can cancel each other. This trait is worth -100 XP, and a person that has it for a specific skill rolls 3D6 and uses the lowest 2 dice for that skill roll.
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Posted: 25-Feb-2013 18:24 Post subject: My unofficial rules: AToW Quirk Handicap Naturally Hindered
You basically just re-created the "Slow Learner" negative trait from 3rd edition.
Slow Learner held it that a person needed more skill points in any given skill to get a bonus compared to a person who didn't have it. _________________ "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." -Edgar Allen Poe"I knew there was something special about you, but I never realized you were really a cat." Wolfwood to a random cat (Trigun)
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Posted: 26-Feb-2013 10:25 Post subject: My unofficial rules: AToW Quirk Handicap Naturally Hindered
Why not just, say, permit negative skill points and negative points bonuses? _________________ "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." -Edgar Allen Poe"I knew there was something special about you, but I never realized you were really a cat." Wolfwood to a random cat (Trigun)
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Posted: 26-Feb-2013 20:48 Post subject: My unofficial rules: AToW Quirk Handicap Naturally Hindered
That's what I do.
The trade-off is that for each negative skill point a character voluntarily takes, they can get a positive skill point elsewhere. The idea is that in real life, you *do* have people who sometimes focus on one skill or set of skills to the detriment of just about everything else. _________________ "I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat." -Edgar Allen Poe"I knew there was something special about you, but I never realized you were really a cat." Wolfwood to a random cat (Trigun)
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