How do you handle Knowledge in Mongoose v2?
Is it just EDU?
Am I missing a specific skill?
Is it just EDU?
Am I missing a specific skill?
Solid stuff, and consistent with all the other editions.Depends on the field. For example, if you want to see if a Traveller knows something about, say, the way a certain laser carbine is manufactured or what its default settings may be, then Gun Combat (EDU) would be appropriate. Where the jump governor on a Serpent-class Scout is likely to be, an Engineer (j-drive) (EDU) check, and so on.
Of course, if learned knowledge is not appropriate and the Traveller is trying to figure the above out, swap EDU for INT.
Hope that helps!
Thanks! It does.Hope that helps!
Isn’t that the difference, though, of a physical skill vs a knowledge skill? While there’s knowledge elements in the physical skill (aiming off for distance), knowing a body of stuff shouldn’t be a prerequisite to simple skillsWhile no expert on the Mongoose version, I'd think you might add in a factor for time. That is someone with gun combat skill(s) would also be more or less knowledgeable depending on how long they've had and used that skill. Someone with years of gun combat even if never particularly rising to higher skill levels for whatever reason would likely be more knowledgeable than someone who just acquired the skill.
There's a lot more to even just a gun skill than just pointing it in the right direction and pulling the trigger.Isn’t that the difference, though, of a physical skill vs a knowledge skill? While there’s knowledge elements in the physical skill (aiming off for distance), knowing a body of stuff shouldn’t be a prerequisite to simple skills
No, it works for both. In a physical skill continued practice makes you better at it. In a knowledge skill, continued interest in it broadens and deepens your understanding of it.Isn’t that the difference, though, of a physical skill vs a knowledge skill? While there’s knowledge elements in the physical skill (aiming off for distance), knowing a body of stuff shouldn’t be a prerequisite to simple skills
No, it works for both. In a physical skill continued practice makes you better at it. In a knowledge skill, continued interest in it broadens and deepens your understanding of it.
My take is that knowledge should be based (in prioty order) on:How do you handle Knowledge in Mongoose v2?
Is it just EDU?
But they all require practice and continued use. If you aren't using the skill, whatever it is, you lose ability to do it just as you gain ability through continued practice.That’s not what I was getting at (forgive my explanations: three weeks in the field & now 11 hours into travelling (!) home).
Some skills require a greater somatic than cognitive component, and others vice versa.