Re: A couple of skills.

[Wright Frazier <khelek@ns1.cioe.com>]

> 
> I've always been a proponents that there should be some things
> that are handled with actual role playing. However, without a
> skill it does pretty much mean that the people who can roleplay
> it will always do so regardless of their character.
> 
> I think if such a skill exists it should exist as a justification
> of ability not a crutch. ie you cant say I have globel merchant
> at 14 therefor obviously I run a global empire. The skill should
> say you have the ability to keep things going, the rest, starting
> it, making contacts, etc... should still be roleplayed.
> 
> 						-Steve
hmmm..thought that is what the skills said?  regardless, that is
what they do.  Show you know HOW to do something, not that you are
doing it.  i.e. with Khelek, I had a Merchant/Fencing skill of
12 or so(a decidedly local oriented skill) and I was raking it
in by the literal truckload.  Legion had little or no such skill
and was making more than I cause he had Toymaking out the yin yang.
In my opinion, skill at making something is good if you are an
employee, but you gotta have business skills to run something major.
That or an employee that isn't out to screw you over too bad.

Wright

> 
> > While I was writing up this money thing an idea struck me that
> > we need a couple of different skills for finance and merchantilism.
> > Here are some rough drafts of'em.
> >
> > Merchant: Local	
> > 	Base: 80	Cse: 4
> > 	This skill is used in conducting business on a personal
> > 	level.  Standard Merchant/Fencing skill in the book.
> > Merchant: Regional
> > 	Base: 200	INT: Non
> > 	This is for leading a small business empire, and making
> > 	decisions to lead such a business.  Such skill is
> > 	required to run any business venture larger than in a
> > 	single city.
> > Merchant: Global 
> > 	Base: 400	Int: Non
> > 	This is for leading true business empires.  People
> > 	with this skill know how to manage and operate businesses
> > 	on a vast level.  To attempt to do so without it will
> > 	lead to ruination.
> >
> > Opinions?
> >
> > Wright
> >
> >
>