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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psion" data-source="post: 3173259" data-attributes="member: 172">This is my strong preference, because tracking permanent synergy bonus is a chargen tracking headache and a potential rules abuse to boot, with very little return in play value. Too bad most character generators support this.I find the spycraft variant superior here as well. Spycraft bases your synergy bonus on the ranks in the skill, but only counts the best one. So instead of having to track multiple synergy pairs, you only need to worry about the best synergy bonus for each skill. And it closes up rules abuses.Spycraft has skills with two abilities, it doesn't blow the field wide open.Some games like MegaTraveller and World of Darkness freely associate any skill with any stat you feel is appropriate.Perhaps that's part of why I find the attitude of inability to roll your own task DCs baffling. I cut my teeth on games where the GM was relied on to make up tasks on the fly.</blockquote>