Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 16:26:14 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Thijs Krijger <J.M.Krijger@fys.ruu.nl>
Subject: Adv skills
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Sometime ago some asked about advanced skills.
Well I still had a few laying at home,that I thoughed up some times. So 
here they come. They are not perfect and probably full of mistakes and I 
would appreciate it if you guys would correct my about them. 

OOps just say that they didn't get through nice. Darn format!!
I could get a revised mail out after the weekend if some one is still 
interested by them.

But here are the skills (forgive me for the format)
The Thijs

"Know yourself and your lover and you need not fear the outcome of a 
	thousand affairs" - Moon Tzu

                                       VIII)  New Advanced Skills

Body-Building (Str,Stamina/Lifting > 5D)
A character with Body-building is trying to build up muscles,
it includes heavy training and exercises. After the initial
training to upgrade the skill, the is required to train 7
hours per dice in the skill per week or else he will
lose 1D per week, that can be regained be retraining as if
learning the skill again, but without the skillpoint cost. The
following benefits are gained for this rigorous training:
 1) For every DIE in Body-building a PIP is gai-    ned when
resisting against any type of damage.
 2) Any time strength of body is asked for,
  Body-building can be used as bonus die. (e.g:
  all Strength skills, Running,Melee and Will
  power)

Appeal (Per, Bargain/Command/Con/Persuasion (=BCCP) > 5D)
Characters with skill have the ability to be very appealing to
other people. People will be inclined to listen to characters
with skill and will look upon them as leaders. Any time a BCCP
is used Appeal can be used as bonus dice.

Fencing (Dex, Melee combat/Melee Parry > 5D)
[For real powerplayers allow this also for lightsaber] This
skill can only be used for light blade weapons that pierce or
slash, so axes, clubs, etc. not. Characters with this skill
are very proficient with blades and are deadly opponents for
their ability to parry and attack. 
Fencing gives the following benefits:
 1) Fencing dice may be split as bonus dice to
  both Melee parry, combat or damage.
 2) Use of Fencing gives a free action, a parry     or an
extra attack, that doesn't has to be de     clared in front
(except full parry)
 3) When parrying with Fencing and still attac      king (a
normal parry), the parry is calculated    as a full parry -
difficulty weapon character.
 4) When full parrying with Fencing the parry       counts as
a full parry + 150/(difficulty wea      pon character), this
means giving up your free   action.
 5) Initiative character = Initiative roll -        difficulty
weapon character + difficulty wea      pon opponent (never
negative).

Economics (Kno, Business/Value/Bargain > 5D)
Characters with this skill know what keeps the galaxy running:
Making money. They know how economics works and benefit from
this knowledge.
 1) Economics can be used as bonus dice to BVB,     Bureaucra-
cy or Streetwise when it involves mo     ney. (What is most of
the time.) If the origi-    nal price lies higher then stand-
ard the bonus     dice are (before throwing) multiplied by:    
    (original price)/(standard price).
 2) An Economics only roll will tell whether an investment is
a good or bad one. Difficulty determined by GM, depending on
information.
         
Aiming (Dex/Mech, any firing skill > 6D)
A good hand-eye coordination is this skill all about. A very
handy skill for any character expecting to get into combat a
lot (e.g. most PC's) or snipers and assassins.
 1) Aiming can be added to any firing skill.
 2) When aiming (taking one round), instead of      +1D the
character gets twice his aiming dice      as bonus. When
taking another round of aiming     triple the dice, but that
is the maximum.




Super Dodge(Dex, Dodge/Vehicle Driving > 5D)
Characters with Super Dodge can get out of the way very quic-
kly. Super Dodge can be used in two ways:
 1) The person with Super Dodge throws his bo       dy/vehicle
in such a way that his armor/
  shields (if none then clothing) will take most    of the
shot and a bonus to resist damage of 1     PIP per DIE in
Super Dodge.
 2) Add Super Dodge dice to any Dodge as bonus.

Blind-fighting(Dex/Str,any fighting skill > 5D)
Blind-fighting is about fighting in bad light/darkness. When
in these conditions Blind-fighting dice are added to any
combat skill with the maximum of the penalty assigned for
lighting condition. (e.g. this skill can at most cancel the
penalties assigned, it can never make a skill better then
normal.)

Surgical Strike (Dex,demolitions or fighting skill > 5D)
Very handy for people with demolitions or that just want to
cause a lot of damage. A character using this skill can cause
extra damage up to his skill in Surgical Strike, but takes
halve the damage bonus dice as a to hit penalty.

Speed Driving (Mech,any Vehicle Driving > 5D)
For anyone wanting to go extra fast. Characters with this
skill can get the most out of a vehicle to gain unheard speed.
The skill can be used with any vehicle/starship. 
 1) Starships gain 1 space per die Speed Driving
 2) Vehicles gain 20 move per die Speed Driving
or
 3) Speed Driving dice can be used as bonus dice    to any
driving skill when driving at high         speed.

Cheating (Per, Gambling > 5D)
Everyone that has ever read the description of the skill
gambling in the StarWars handbook has or (should have) seen
that cheating is shit. You normally win when you throw higher
then the rest, you also win when you cheat but are discovered
when anyone throws higher. Either way you must throw highest
else you lose or win and be caught, nice alternatives. So here
is the gap to the gambling skill. Cheating is about fastness
of hand, using devices, like mirrors to see your opponents
cards, cheater chips or other help.
Gambling still go by the old rules, however when Cheating add
the TWICE the cheating dice as bonus. To be detected the
opponents throw just their gambling + ONCE their Cheating
skill if present. The highest thrower wins. 
If multiple players are cheating then only Cheating rolls are
made and the highest roll wins. Detection by other players
stays the same but the losing cheaters gains his Cheating dice
bonus to detection. (i.e. He rolls his gambling + TWICE Chea-
ting dice.) That is because he lost, he now suspect very much
that someone else is also cheating and even better than him.