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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 2381015" data-attributes="member: 12332">From experience, I'll say that just a single Computer Use is way too powerful with the skill system as-is.  My wife's Dark*Matter character was built around Computer Use and other tech skills, but she could regularly hit DCs in the 30s, pretty easy.  And, really, what CAN'T you do with computers these days?  So it seriously became a situation of me, as the GM, having to say:  "Here's the thing ... I agree, you can do _____ with a computer, and I agree, it wouldn't be MORE difficult than the hacking thing from last game, but everybody else would like to play too."I, honestly, think sometimes that Hide/Move Silently should be rolled into "Sneak", that Spot/Listen should be rolled into "Notice", and that another skill, "Intuition", should be installed ... but that's for my games ... which rely quite a bit on investigation and occassionally a hefty dose of intuitive thinking ( which I usually use a Wisdom roll for, but would like to make a skill out of ).  Break Computer Use into a couple skills, roll it into other skills, generally make it a Synergy Special ... 5 ranks in Knowledge (Computers) gets you SYNERGY to "Gather Information", etc, as opposed to doing the SAME THING as 5 other skills.  With the net being so wide-spread today, everybody doing that kind of work would use a computer anyway ... so if you're Gathering Information online, it's not so special that you need a new Computer Use skill.  If you're doing Research online ... etc.--fje</blockquote>

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