Re: [BNW] Veteran points

[Mark Kilfoil <kilfoilm@nbnet.nb.ca>]

Scott Kunian wrote:
> 
> Mark Kilfoil wrote:
> > Yes.
> >
> > p 134, "Veteran":
> >   "When you select [the Veteran Quirk], your hero
> >    gets an extra 5 points to spend on skills,
> >    quirks, or tricks."
> 
> Actually the points you get for Veteran you have to spend during character
> creation. So you can only spend them on Skills and Quirks. Veteran does say
> you can use them on tricks, but this has to be a type-o. You can only start
> with 3 tricks which you pick from the available list. The points you get for
> Veteran are treated just like Skill points and can be used on skills and
> quirks during character creation.

While it basically indicates that, it quite carefully states that you
only
get three tricks in character creation "for free".  I would allow a
character
to spend Quirk points to purchase an additional Trick (since you could
only
have 10 negative Quirk points, you could only get one additional Trick)
if
they really wanted it.  With Veteran, they would only have to spend 5
negative quirk points for that additional trick (spending the 5 points
from
Veteran as well).

> Spacedog wrote:
> > > How much would they cost. What is a suggested
> > > break down for:
> > > Tricks
> > > Skills
> > > Trait Levels
> 
> If you mean during character creation (where the points from veteran can be
> used) then they are the same as Skill points or quirks, they are 1 point
> equals 1 level. Remeber you can't start higher then a +5 in a skill though.

Well, during character creation you can't buy Tricks normally (with the 
exception above, if you want to use it), and Traits are limited to a
total
of 12 dice to split among four Traits -- no more, no less.

In character creation, you really can only buy Skills or Quirks, and
those
are on a one-to-one basis, i.e. each level in the Skill costs one point
(as
you said).
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