Homebrew / In Development Starfire Rebranded Skills Template: Mechanic


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Mechanic

Name
Mechanic
Skill Attribute & Difficulty
Int - Average
Defaults
5+Int, Engineer (same)-4, Machinist-5
Prerequisites
None
Description
This is the ability to diagnose and fix ordinary mechanical problems, A successful skill roll will let you find or repair one problem. You must pick a specialty from the available categories.
Specializations

Machine Type

Any one class of nonvehicular machine. Such as Micromachines or Robotics.  

Motive System Type

Any one type of propulsion system, regardless of vehicle type. Types include Legged, Tracked, Wheeled, Rockets, and Reactionless thrusters.  

Power Plant Type

Any one type of power plant, no matter what it powers. Types include Clockwork, Steam engine, Gasoline engine, Diesel engine, Gas turbine, Fuel cell, Fission reactor, Fusion reactor, and Antimatter reactor.  

Vehicle Type

The controls, hull, motive, system, power plant, transmission, and even the paint job of one specific type of vehicle listed under a vehicle-operation skill such as Driving, Piloting, or Submarine.  
  Mechanic specialties default to one another at -4, although the GM may modify this for particularly close or distant specialties. The systems covered by each specialty vary by TL. For instance, Mechanic (Light Airplane) covers single-engine biplanes at early TL6, small private jets at TL7, and so forth.   Familiarity is very important here. For instance, Mechanic/TL7 (Light Airplane) covers both propeller-powered seaplanes and small private jets, but going from one to the other gives you -2 for an unfamiliar item (prop-powered plane to jet) and -2 for an unfamiliar implementation (seaplane to regular plane), for a net -4 to skill until you familiarize yourself with all the differences.
Modifiers
-2 for an unfamiliar item within your specialty (e.g., a barge when you’re used to battleships), or for an unfamiliar implementation (e.g., a powerboat engine when you’re used to automobile engines equipment modifiers.

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