Mahatatain
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Modifying Skill level question

Thu 27 Jan 2022, 14:38

Hi there.

If a character has an Intelligence of B, a Recon of A and the Scout specialty (which adds 1 to certain Recon rolls) then what effect does the Scout specialty have when it's applicable? The Recon skill can't go up by one so does the Intelligence attribute go up by one instead? Or does it have no impact apart from off-setting penalties to the task check?

Thanks for any insight.
 
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Re: Modifying Skill level question

Thu 27 Jan 2022, 14:48

If you add a modifier, you increase the dice step of the lowest die. For negative modifiers, you decrease the dice step of the highest die. It doesn't matter what dice is what.

So if you have Int B (d10) and Recon A (d12) and you get +1, your skill roll is made by rolling d12+d12. If the same guy gets a penalty of -1 to his Recon roll, he would roll d10+d10.
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Mahatatain
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Re: Modifying Skill level question

Thu 27 Jan 2022, 14:50

Superb - thanks for clarifying.
 
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Re: Modifying Skill level question

Thu 27 Jan 2022, 23:56

To simplify Fenhorn's statement, use modifiers to equalize the dice. So,

Bonuses d8+d6 -> d8+d8 -> d10+d8 -> d10+d10, etc.
Penalties d10+d8 -> d8+d8 -> d8+d6 -> d6+d6 -> d6+0, etc.

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