Complementary Skills and Time Chart

[Half Baked]

Does the -3 penalty for moving up the Time Chart with a skill roll apply to any complementary skills as well? For example, if a PC is making an Electronics roll to fix a piece of equipment in 1 minute instead of 5 minutes and the GM has permitted SS: Computer Science as a complementary roll. The PC is at -3 to Electronics for doing the job quicker, but is their SS: Computer Science skill at the same penalty?

[Steve Long]

Re: Complementary Skills and Time Chart

 

The penalty in question applies to the base Skill being used (Electronics, in this example). The Complementary Skill in effect can provide a positive modifier to that same Skill; it itself is not also modified separately. Otherwise using Complementary Skills would often be virtually impossible.