House Rules for Elven Focus

by Bengt Strand

Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 11:58:14 -0400 From: Bengt Strand To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Elven Focus

Hi everybody.

I just joined the list and have been reading it for a couple of days.

I've created a chart for Elven Focus mentioned in RMCo1 and I thought I'd share it with you (is there any need for this in RMSS?).

Categorys	Skills
A:Adrenal	Adrenal Moves(All), Contortions, Stunned Maneuver
B:Meditation	Meditation(All)
C:Crafting	Crafting, Fletching, Stone Crafts
D:Athletics	Diving, Skating, Skiing, Surfing, Tightrope walking, Tumbling
E:Outdooring	Caving, Hostile Environment, Rowing, Skating, Skiing,
		Stalk 'n' Hide
F:Spying	Disguise, Falsification, Mnemonics, Signaling, Stalk 'n' Hide,
		Surveillance
G:Physician	Drug Tolerance, Hypnosis, Second Aid
H:Performance	Disguise, Mimery, Mimicry, Mnemonics, Signaling, Ventriloquism

Race		Can NOT choose
Half-Elves A	D,E,H
Half-Elves B	A,E,F
Half-Elves D	C,F,G,H
Half-Elves E	-
Fair Elves	A,E,F
High Elves	E,H
Wood Elves	C
Aquatic Elves	F,G
Grey Elves	E,G,H
Dark Elves	C,G,H

The pc chooses one category and counts his racial SD as possitive instead of negative.

When I created the Categorys and Restrictions I considered my view of the diffrent elf-races and what would be appropriate in each category. So if your elves differ from the descriptions in the rm-products you should probably modify the restrictions.

As this makes elves more powerfull there are some variants listed in RMCo1, another one is to require a BO ta have a focus (come to think of it a well spent one, +40 in several skills). I havent read Talent Law but from the discussion I gather that you buy talents for points, this would obiously be a quite expensive talent if it were incorporated into that system. Q: Do you a starting amount of points or are you required to take flaws for every talent?

Please give me your comments.


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