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Message: <blockquote data-quote="breschau" data-source="post: 4130395" data-attributes="member: 52376">Yes, the ships move at the speed of plot in fiction, but this is an rpg based on that fiction. This rpg will also involve that most dastardly cad, the gamer. Those gamers are a nasty bunch. If you give them something like you described above, they will all be Savage and Shadow. I know you will say that's the point, and I almost agree. You're forgetting the Fabulous Five and Pat. You're forgetting all the Shadow's agents. There has to be some limits otherwise the players can do anything. That's not fun. If they can make any kind of check then why team up? Sure, Savage gets a +2 to invention, and Shadow a +2 to investigation, but that's not fun.You're right that with ability checks replacing skills, everyone does have a shot at doing everything, but, that's the way it is now, with skills. You are right that with your occupational bonuses to certain checks, that adds to the character, but, I call them trained skills.My point here is I see no point in taking the system far afield. The OGL comes with feats and skills. You're essentially renaming them Edges and "occupational areas of knowledge" respectively, that seems silly and wasteful to me. Why do that when the function almost identically? It doesn't make sense that you would do this unless you plan on claiming them as Product Identity. This move does make sense from a publisher's stand point, but you've already stated, and we can all see, that they're the same. Your example of Savage and Shadow can be used for either of our arguments though. Again, you call them OAoK I call them trained skills.</blockquote>

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