[UA] Rules question about Avatar skills

[Greg Stolze]

>"Bailey Watts" <didi_mau at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Now I'm confused... 8(
>
>> I contend that a 78% obsession skill in "Lie like a bastard" is
>>functionally
>> equivilant to regular signifigant charges in cliomancy without any
>> territorial pissing.
>
>True, but you'd need a Soul stat of at least 78 for that as well, don't you?

Exactly right.

>> And getting into the media or academia could let someone pull off a major
>> effect without having to visit the moon.
>
>True, but isn't that one of the things UA is all about? That magic is hardly
>worth all the trouble if you give it a hard look?

One of the things I really wanted to do with UA was to set it up that, yes,
having Lie Like A Bastard as a 78% obsession IS just about as useful as
Cliomancy 78%.  They're not exactly the same.  There are no circumstances
where you can use your LLAB skill in the place of (say) a 15% Fly A Fighter
Jet skill, the way you can with the Instant Zen Master spell.  You can do
more with the magick.  In the dimension of use, it's wider.  But in the
dimension of pragmatism, it's narrower because it constrains you with
charges and taboos.

In each case, however, you need to have a stat that's at least as high as
the skill.

-G.

As it turns out, my memory is far less detail-oriented than my imagination.

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