[UA] Varying skill costs . . .

[Susan Dohnim]

>From: Chad Eagleton <ceagleto at yahoo.com>

> > Don't be ridiculous! GMs have enough work as it is
> > without having to make
> > "Cat Lover" or "Hold my Breath" into skills as
> > relevant as "Charm",
> > "Notice", and "Struggle".
>
>Why? You can't throw in like one situation, say every
>other game, where Stan The Breathing Man gets to hold
>his breath? Say to retrieve the weapon the psychic
>said was at the bottom of the river or to walk into
>the house where the dead body has lain festering for
>two weeks in 90 degree weather?

I think after awhile it'll seem kind of forced :). I can hear the other 
characters already -- "What do you mean, all the oxygen gets sucked out of 
the room AGAIN?!"

>If not, then at character creation you should have told him, look
>dude, don't spend so many points on hold breath, let's
>work something else out.

Eh, or just say that it's one of those skills that you can take at 5 or 10 
points and you get full effect, or you can buy it up at 1/3 price, or give 
each player 30pts to spend on fun stuff. That was the point of my initial 
post -- see what ideas people might have other than discourging skill 
choices/extensive tweaking of scenarios to reward highly specialized skill 
choices.

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