[Torg] Skill Knacks in Play

[Chris]

My own personality aside, and how my character(s) have run so far, I find it
hard to believe that characters will want to spend too much on Knacks if it
comes at the penalty of "You're getting 2 possibilities per session/arc."
This is because most will find the inability to upgrade their skills, buy
new ones, or simply get through their adventure with so few possibilities
available to them, to be a hassle that they would rather not deal with.

Example:

It's great that I can now roll two (or more) dice at once and pick my
results from the lot, but I can't get any more adds in these skills for the
next 4 months of play. Not only that, but these other skills I should have
and don't, I can't buy, since I don't have any possibilities left after that
last session, since I spent the two I had trying to not die to that dragon
that popped up while leaving Aysle. (Stupid dragons freezing our boat's
engine repeatedly.)

Chris

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

> Benjamin Grant wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>  The cost of the Knack does NOT come immediately out of your possibilities,
>> instead it gets assigned to you as a possibility debt.  Whenever you get a
>>
>
> This is a bit wonky, but I suppose it's no worse than an adventure cost
> with the benefit that it eventually goes away.
>
> But it would seem to be that this doesn't address the other issue raised
> which was every PC eventually getting a Knack. By spreading the cost out
> over time it seems like this would encourage the acquisition of a Knack
> since there's less 'pain' involved now.
>
>
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