Brett's Blog Ingenuity and Abilities Sep 17, 2009 | 3:42 pm This thread at TheRPGSite brings up a point about GDi/GD3 fitness being the uber-stat, meaning it's all important. I simply don't agree. If you read my examples of how to utilize other abilities in place of fitness, I think you'll realize what I mean (this is actually covered briefly in The GD3 Manual). Here's my example: "...Let's say you pick up an alien gun and want to fire it. Defer to the reasoning ability to figure out how it works -- use that for the task to shoot it. Or, imagine you are on TV in a sports competition and want to do something special -- you use influence to pull off a cool stunt to impress the audience with your style. How about if you throw a punch at the last minute -- use creativity to show how the character can improvise on the spot -- his use of martial arts was creative rather than just going by the book." I'd really like to hear your own creative ways of doing this. Let's have them. 5 Comments | Add Comment | Permanent Link | Return to Overview mtwofive Commented: Sep 17, 2009 | 4:12 pm I allow and encourage all sorts of 'stunting' not only with other attributes, but with other skills in combat to keep things fresh. People have used obvious things like intimidation, but also others like engineering (I forget the actual name at the moment) to notice a flaw in a structure and cause a cave-in. People still take crafts as their incompetency, though. Brett Commented: Sep 21, 2009 | 1:42 pm Don't let them take crafts as an incompetency if they keep doing it. mtwofive Commented: Sep 21, 2009 | 6:04 pm It doesn't bother me, or I would have banned it already. One day, one of them will have to make a critical pottery roll. :wink: pspahn Commented: Sep 23, 2009 | 9:18 pm That's usually how I handle metagaming - put them in situations where it's crucial. In Star Wars WEG everyone scoffed at the beast riding skill until I crashed them on a planet where everyone flew around on bird-creatures and one of the players botched his roll . . . djlittle Commented: Sep 24, 2009 | 5:30 pm [quote author="pspahn"]That's usually how I handle metagaming - put them in situations where it's crucial. In Star Wars WEG everyone scoffed at the beast riding skill until I crashed them on a planet where everyone flew around on bird-creatures and one of the players botched his roll . . .[/quote] :lol: :lol: It can be fun being a cruel GM... :wink: Add Comment