Lucius

Skill Bonus

"I wonder about its applicability to other skills..."

That might be an idea for a new topic.

It seems funny to use a skill roll to get levels with another skill, though. But limitations like Side Effects, Incantations, Gestures, Visible, and certain Conditional limitations, can give these extra skill levels the "flavor" of simple magical charms. Also consider if such levels are subject to magick Detect, Dispel, Suppress, etc.

For example, Crocodile Dundee has a big bonus to his Animal Handler roll with gestures (hold out one hand with thumb and small finger extended) incantations (if you want to consider that sound he makes an incantation) a limited number of things he can get an animal to do (perhaps "don't attack me" but not "go attack that guy") and any shaman in the vicinity can detect what he's doing by making a PS: Shaman roll with perception modifiers (okay, I don't remember that from the movie and I'm just making that one up.)

Yes, Lucius Alexander is back

And so is the palindromedary

I get a subject line?

Another way to keep Triggers and Delayed Effect under control is to limit how many spells a character can have "active" (including ready triggers etc.) at one time. A common rule as I recall was that a mage could have one fifth of their INT in ready or active spells at one time. If you have a multipower, it gets even easier - if you have a triggered spell ready, those points can't be shifted without blowing the trigger and making you have to go through the preparations all over again. Also, with the point cost savings of a multipower, stacking a lot of limits for a triggerred or delayed spell is good for flavor but is not really saving the character an abusively large number of points.

Yes, I'm back. For now.

Lucius Alexander

And so is the palindromedary

Last sand grain in place

Days of prayer, careful work, now

Scatter to the winds

Returned from exile

What used to be my playground

Gone without a trace

Registered anew

Search words "Haiku Hero." Gone?

As if never was.

Lucius Alexander

Well mounted I ride

My palindromedary

Even through haiku