NWod Mass Effect/Skills
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Skills
This is largely a cosmetic change to rename and rebrand Skills from the nWoD core rules, but there are a few merges/deletions/additions too. In addition, an important basic rule change:
- There are no unskilled penalties for any Skill
The reason for this is fairly simple; to remove the perverse incentive to get 1-dot in any Skill you might think you need, because of the penalty for unskilled use. This is particularly punitive in the case of Mental Skills, which by default carry a -3 penalty if unskilled.
Onto the Skills.
Mental
These are largely unchanged, barring renaming and some new Specialities. Four of them, Engineering, Interface, Medicine and Science are of particular importance to those with Tech Powers.
Academics
Specialities:
Engineering (Crafts)
Specialities:
Interface (Computers)
Specialities:
Investigation
Specialities:
Medicine
Specialities:
Politics
Specialities:
Science
Specialities:
Physical
There's been a bit of rebranding and shuffling in this section, the primary change is to merge all close combat, whether armed or unarmed, into a single Assault Skill.
Assault (Brawling and Weaponry)
Specialities:
Covert/Spycraft (Larceny)
- tech steals some of its clothes
Specialities:
Firearms
Specialities:
Fitness (Athletics)
Specialities:
Piloting (Drive)
- all personal vehicles whether ground/air/sea/space
Specialities:
Stealth
Specialities:
Survival (includes Animal Ken)
Specialities:
Social
The main changes here are the removal of Animal Ken and Streetwise, merging of Expression into Persuasion, and addition of Barter and Contacts.
Barter/Business
Specialities:
Contacts
(Merit turned into a Skill)
Specialities:
Empathy
Specialities:
Intimidation
Specialities:
Persuasion (includes Expression)
Specialities:
Socialise
Specialities:
Subterfuge
Specialities:
