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Skills for a [football] star?

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Mon, 2012-10-15 16:28
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NewtonPulsifer NewtonPulsifer's picture
Skills for a [football] star?
I was trying to come up with believable skills for a character that was a soccer player. I'm thinking relevant skills would be: Freerunning (for full defense and outrunning opponents) Throwing (for scoring/passing - just with head/feet) Unarmed Combat (for stealing the ball - a "disarm" maneuver, also to prevent ball stealing) For Goalies: They probably just use the CO+CO+REF from pg 200. Perhaps they could use Freerunning full defense to dodge "into" the shot rather than away from it (or maybe just provide a +10-30 synergy bonus for their Freerunning to their Attribute test). Anyway, it seems to me a strong SOM and CO is what would be necessary. REF would help if you're a goalie (and to receive or intercept poor/marginal passes). I had previously come to the conclusion Fray might be important here, but on second though probably not. I welcome any and all critiques on my analysis.
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Mon, 2012-10-15 19:11
OneTrikPony OneTrikPony's picture
Just my opinion but I wouldn
Just my opinion but I wouldn't like to see a character who was a soccer player using throwing as a kicking skill. That would make him an expert knife thrower and a pretty good baseball player too. As a GM I'd ask the player to use an exotic melee skill "Punting"? maybe, or "Striking" don't they call it striking in the UK? Alternately you could just add "Soccer" as a skill and have specializations in the player's positions or any specific technique. As a player I would definitely pump CP into a profession:Soccer skill or maybe Squad Tactics: [Soccer] skill that would allow me to read the play, goad the reffs and cheat as much as possible. I'd also definitely give my character a high fray skill cause it would suck to get spiked.
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Mon, 2012-10-15 20:15
NewtonPulsifer NewtonPulsifer's picture
So perhaps a knowledge skill
So perhaps a knowledge skill or two that could be boosted by +10-30 by points in freerunning/fray/throwing/unarmed combat. That's a better fit than all athletes are ninjas :)
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Mon, 2012-10-15 21:31
OneTrikPony OneTrikPony's picture
I really like the knowledge
I really like the knowledge skills in this game. In my experience we end up using knowledge skills MORE than most non-tech active skills. That might be an artifact of the adventures we tend to write but I'm sure that it's also because the freeform nature of the skills makes them usefull to the character concept. Deffo think of knowledge skills for any new archetype. :)
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Thu, 2012-11-01 20:24
jackgraham jackgraham's picture
I generally let players in my
I generally let players in my games use Knowledge points to buy highly specialized physical skills. From a standpoint of game balance, a crack sniper is more useful than an enooormoooos striker. So I'd let 'em take Interest: Footie.
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Thu, 2012-11-01 20:25
jackgraham jackgraham's picture
And yeah, I changed the
And yeah, I changed the thread subject. We're international here. ;)
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Thu, 2012-11-01 21:01
RustedPantheress RustedPantheress's picture
Ah, just make a Sports [Field
Ah, just make a Sports [Field] skill using SOM or COO. Interest would cover rules, leagues and players, and Profession doesn't seem to be a good fit to me. So, Sports [Football], Sports [American Football], Sports [Baseball], Sports [Hockey], Sports [Rugby], Sports [Australian Indoor-Rules Quidditch]*, Exotic Sports [Cricket].... *Perfect for habs with empty corridors: http://machall.com/view.php?date=2002-06-15
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