House Rule: Complementary skill checks Options

[Dentris]

It's something I've been using a lot when playing SR3, and i wanted to add it to SR4.

Some skills are really helpful when using others. (Camouflage when trying to remain stealthy, Enginneering when trying to improve a firearm, etc.)

When such circumstances occur, and when a character is trained in both the main skill and the complementary skill, roll 2 different dice pool.

The first pool is made using the complementary skill rating and it's relevant attribute. Each hits acheived in this roll is then added to the dice pool of the second skill check.

The second skill check is made with the main skill rating, it's relevant attribute and all the normal skill modifiers.

Example: Swarm ™ is trying to hide in the forest. He has Agility 5, Intuition 3, Inflitration 3 and Disguise 2. First he rolls his complementary skill (Disguise + Intuition for a total of 5 die) to see how well he is able to use camouflage and achieves 2 hits. His main skill dice pool (Agility + Infiltration) is improved by two, for a total of 10 die.

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