[v2.2]Cascade skill issue

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Originally Posted by leonpoi

I've always been confused about this one and it seemed strange to have such a complicated rule for these cascade skills.

For what it's worth, I simplified with a house rule that if a character has a skill point in a cascade skill then every skill in that cascade gets a 0 skill (i.e. can avoid the unskilled penalty). I've therefore really just treated cascade skills as separate skills.

IMO, that's not a house rule, that is a core rule. The book says:

His level in all other subskills is half his level in the overall skill, with fractions rounded down.

If SA (Rifle) = 1, the SA (Pistol) = 1/2 rounded down, = 0 skill

Note this also means if someone had no skill in any of a cascade (e.g., Medical), and then learned by observation to take one of the cascades to 0 (e.g., Med (Trauma Aid) ), then the Diagnosis and Surgery would also have 0 skill since 0/2 = 0

And I agree with Leg on the rest

Andrew