[Torg] Weird science question?

[Steve Crow]

Does the Terra SB rule about how the DN of the skill check increase by 1 per booster still apply? The Terra SB refers to the DN of the System, but the examples on page 83 make it clear that the DN increase apply to any skill checks made as well.

Also, would the bonus (and presumably the shock value) change as Fred raised his Evidence Analysis adds, prior to getting enough for it to become useless to him?

It sounds good except for the "sliding" aspect, which sounds like you'd need to recalculate the adds (and shock?) for each person using it.

And would the device be more useful to someone with less of a total skill check than Fred? Let's say he loans it to Clueless Joe (he played baseball before the invasion ;) ), who has a PER of 7 and no adds in Evidence Analysis

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> But from the discussion that's not what your player wants, he wants
> a gadget which boosts the user's skill, in this case he wants to boost
> Fred's Evidence Analysis. The rules technically do not allow this, in
> order to apply a booster to a system you must know the maximum value
> of the system being boosted but skills do not have maximum values.
> 
> After a number of false starts, here's what I'm currently thinking. We
> treat Fred's Evidence Analysis skill at the time of construction as a
> "plus rated" tool, like a melee weapon or armor. This way we can fudge
> a maximum value for the skill. The plus value is the +2 adds he has in
> the skill, the maximum value is his Perception Limit Value of 13 plus
> the adds, so 15. For building the booster, we use this 15 as our DN.
> 
> (For simplicity's sake I'm ignoring the possibility of Nile characters
> using a limit value of 14 as mentioned on p81 of the Terra SB.)
> 
> (The Terra SB also says on p84 to use the plus value as the DN when
> you're increasing the plus value, but to me that makes it too easy to
> generate large push results. I prefer using the original rule in the
> Nile SB on p78, the max value is the DN for increasing either the plus
> or the max value.)
> 
> So let's say that Fred generates a Weird Science total of 20 to build
> the booster. That's 5 RPs so we get a push result of +2(1). We'll slap
> on a compensator to get rid of the shock damage (smooth down those
> sharp edges!) and voila, we have a magnifying glass which gives a +2
> bonus to Evidence Analysis skill with a maximum improvement to 15.
> 
> So when Fred uses it his skill value is raised to 12, but if it was
> borrowed by Mary Ann McCay (Infiniverse Update #1) it wouldn't help her
> out any since she has a skill value of 20. If Fred over time increases
> his Evidence Analysis skill up to +6 adds (so skill value 14), he'll
> find that the magnifying glass doesn't help him as much as it used to.
> Perhaps it needs a new focusing element (ie, another booster) to raise
> its limit value....
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
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