Re: OT Re: [DL] RE:What's wrong with CoC??

[Allan Seyberth <darious@darious.com>]

 > What's wrong with Cthulhu?  Or what don't you like?  (a better question)

Skill dilution.  Just to start the game with average skills you have to be 
Wile E.Coyote - Super-Genius.

"Let's see, I know how to drive a car, shoot a shotgun, pistol, rifle and a 
crossbow.  I know how to do library research, perform first aid, swim, 
climb and have taken some classes in these X sciences during my college 
years. . .  "

It's also a failure oriented system.  Say you blew a large chunk of your 
starting points on Pilot Aircraft.  You have a 60% in it.  That means 
you're going to crash that plane 40% of the time anything even mildly 
dangerous happens.  I can see being failure oriented in combat, but the 
same process goes for Swim, Climb, etc.  In order to be able to just rely 
on a skill, you need a 75% in it.

And you just don't have enough points for more then one skill like that.




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