[UA] Varying skill costs . . .

[luke p.]

Timothy Groth said:

>Of course there is an obligation of the player to pick skills that aren't 
>boring/safe.  That's the point of the whole making characters with high 
>changes of survival in UA2.  Characters that are in little risk are boring, 
>and have skills that reflect this.  If you take a skill you want to use it, 
>obviously, but if you are taking things like Accounting you are not being 
>cooperative.
>
This gave me an interesting idea. Start with a boring, normal person, an 
accountant or office drone. But then they are introduced to the Occult 
Underground, and what do they do? They change, they evolve.

I guess I should tell you guys that I gotta be cafeful here. I found UA on 
the Internet, fell in love, and have read a lot on this and on the website, 
but I don't have the core rule books. Being a jobless high schooler in a 
fairly podunk town can do that to you. And now I hear UA might be going out 
of print. Time to scrape together some money, and get it while the getting's 
still good. But my point is this...I'm not completely certified for the 
rules, but I could possibly contribute.

Anyway, the idea is this...people evolve. The things important to someone 
before they enter the OU will be vastly different afterward. I'm thinking of 
the quote from "Fight Club" along the lines, "After Fight Club, everything 
else in your life got the volume turned down."

So maybe the player sees the character as being some poor schmoe with an 
Accounting 32% and other assorted "hobby" skills, but has never faced 
anything unnatural, or fought for his life. As the campaign goes on, he 
loses interest in accounting....those skill points transmute into other 
skills. The exact nature of the transformation (1 to 1/2 point exchange, tie 
the exchange to the madness meters, make the transmuted skills related, like 
"accounting" into "mathemancy" or "bribe public official" or "cook the 
books", etc.) could be left up to individual tastes.

So, I submit to the list,
Luke p.

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