CaptainOrs
Mongoose
Hi fellow Travellers!
I was looking through the skills section of the core rulebook and noticed Electronics appears as a specialty for two different skills. It's under both Engineer and Physical Science. The definition in the science section is fairly sparse, but seems to follow the same idea as the Engineer specialty (circuits and computers). It really feels like the same skill to me, but if I were to look at the common usages, science is more "knowledge of" where as engineering is doing. This feels a bit thin to me to draw that kind of distinction. I could suggest that a scientist understands the theory but not the practice while an engineer understands the practice but not the theory, but that may be a bit extreme within the context of a game. We could get really granular with skills and would need a lot more points to distribute if we took it to that level.
How do you guys address these two skills/specialties and their overlap? If you are good at one, should you get a bonus to the other? Use the higher of the two for any situation involving Electronics? Add them together as two sides of the same coin? Would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks,
Capt.
I was looking through the skills section of the core rulebook and noticed Electronics appears as a specialty for two different skills. It's under both Engineer and Physical Science. The definition in the science section is fairly sparse, but seems to follow the same idea as the Engineer specialty (circuits and computers). It really feels like the same skill to me, but if I were to look at the common usages, science is more "knowledge of" where as engineering is doing. This feels a bit thin to me to draw that kind of distinction. I could suggest that a scientist understands the theory but not the practice while an engineer understands the practice but not the theory, but that may be a bit extreme within the context of a game. We could get really granular with skills and would need a lot more points to distribute if we took it to that level.
How do you guys address these two skills/specialties and their overlap? If you are good at one, should you get a bonus to the other? Use the higher of the two for any situation involving Electronics? Add them together as two sides of the same coin? Would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks,
Capt.