Connection Question

[-Daniel-]

Hello,

When a player develops a connection with another character and thus receives a skill, can they select a skill not on their career lists?

I think I am right in how I handled this, but I want to make sure I handled this correctly.

Thank You

Daniel

 

[zozotroll]

That is my reading of it, they can select any skill at all. Which makes it valuable enough that players will actualy use it, makeing for a party that has history and reasons why they are togather. I think it is one of the best RPG ideas I have seen for a long time.

And whether or not it is supposed to be that way, it certainly will be in my games.

 

[AKAmra]

My impression was also that it is any skill. The players would need to explain the skill choice based on the story of the connection - that's good role playing stuff.

 

[AKAramis]

That is my reading of it, they can select any skill at all. Which makes it valuable enough that players will actualy use it, makeing for a party that has history and reasons why they are togather. I think it is one of the best RPG ideas I have seen for a long time.

And whether or not it is supposed to be that way, it certainly will be in my games.

Isn't there a level 3 limit on that, tho'? (my book is elsewhere, and I can't check to see if it was cut between PT and print...)

 

[-Daniel-]

Isn't there a level 3 limit on that, tho'? (my book is elsewhere, and I can't check to see if it was cut between PT and print...)

Yes, you can not raise a skill above 3 and can not take Jack of All Trades at all with this rule per page 37.

Daniel

 

[FallingPhoenix]

My impression was also that it is any skill. The players would need to explain the skill choice based on the story of the connection - that's good role playing stuff.

I've had very good experience with that in my RPOL game so far. All seven players have superb backgrounds and well-thought-out (in my opinion, anyway) rationales for the sometimes unusual skills they picked for their connections.

FP, who wishes his copy of CC3 would find its grid lines, wherever it lost them to.