"Broken" Skills

[Nico_Davout]

One question. Which skill in D6 is used for 'Sense Motive'?
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Nico,

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[Raven Redstar]

Con. It's a contested con roll.

[Nico_Davout]

Thanks.

How do you feel about Space Tranports Repair and Starfighter Repair? Since both starships use the same engine they should be under one skill. Perhaps there should be two skills for 'Mechanics' (repairs of Hull, Maneuverability) and 'Systems' (Communication, Sensors, Hyperdrive, Ion Engine). What's your opinion?

Another question, is there a Swoop Repair skill or is it repaired with Repulsorlift Rpr?
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Nico,

Han Solo shot first, midichlosomething do not exist, Rebel Alliance was created as in the WEG books and indoctrination theory is the true ending of ME3.

[ZzaphodD]

[Nico_Davout]

Yes I like this spirit of 1st edition.

I have also added together

Acrobatics/Running
Space Transports/Starfighter Piloting
Capital Ship Shields/Starship Shields

Vehicle Blasters moved to Mechanical

Blaster Artillery deleted, it made no sense at all for me. We have Vehicle Gunnery (speeder and walker scale), Starship Gunnery (starfighter scale) and Capital Ship Gunnery (capital scale). I think weapon use should depend on scale.
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Nico,

Han Solo shot first, midichlosomething do not exist, Rebel Alliance was created as in the WEG books and indoctrination theory is the true ending of ME3.

[Whill]

[schnarre]

...I kept a lot of skills as they are in 1st Ed (why fix what isn't broken?), however I put in a mechanic for those that wanted to be more focused by keeping Specializations but adding Concentrations as a Category.

...For example, a Brash Pilot handles most ships with some proficiency, but the player wants to focus in Starfighters, it would look like this:

Starship Piloting: Starfighters

...if he wanted to specify a fighter type, then it would look like this (let's say an X-Wing):

Starship Piloting: Starfighters (X-Wing)

...I can understand being better at a class of craft, but to overspecialize in one only (which will be a mess if that type ever goes out of production) seems too limiting.
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[Nico_Davout]

[garhkal]

Interesting on that shields thing. ANd i do like the concept of separating repairing ships between systems which would be different between a cap and fighter size, and hull
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[jmanski]

I'm all for fewer skills, but I agree with Garhkal, repair skills for cap ship and starfighter should be different.

I also think Starfighter Piloting, Space Transports, and Capital Ship Piloting need to remain split up as well. My thinking is that the difference would be like operating ships of different sizes- operating a speedboat would be much different from a cargo ship or a cruise ship.

Other than that, I agree with the Droid Programming/Repair,Rocket/Jet Pack, Melee, and Brawling.

The Beastriding is another story. Personally I like it under Mechanical because I feel it requires a mix of attributes, which is what Mechanical (and Technical) seem to represent. Putting it under Perception in my view would make it useful only for attempting to make out what the animal wants or training it.

Vehicle Blasters I leave under Dexterity as I feel it represents weapons mounted on swivels that must be manually operated (such as a door gunner). But as I type that, I wonder if those weapons would just use Blaster..... hhmmmm..... Might have to think about that one. Wisdom perhaps you speak on this matter.

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[bobenhotep]

i had a flight pack ops skill that covered rocket and jet packs, as well as any other "worn" vehicles

i like the idea of splitting up skills by scales, so that there is a speeder/walker gunnery skill (vehicle gunnery) a starship piloting skill ( all starfighter scale ships) and no blaster artillery skill ( handled under scale appropriate gunnery skill). capitol ship piloting is now all capitol ships.
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The Chijawa said so, that's why.

[garhkal]

I disagree with the combining of melee and brawl, with their parry. But can see combining the jet/rocket pack skills.
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[atgxtg]

I think the reason why Vehicle Blasters is a serparate skill from Starship Gunnery is because the character is still sighting by "eye". With a starship, a computer is doing the firing, and the character is looking at a targeting scanner. He'd have to, considering the distances and speeds involved.

It just "looks" like the characters are tail gunners on a B17, and that the enemy fighters are up close and flying at only 400kph. In reality those tie fighters could be over a half dozen km away and moving at a couple thousand kph

[Nico_Davout]

[atgxtg]