Help with crafts and professions (Verditius miner)

[Christian_Andersen (Christian Rosenkjaer Andersen)]

@KevinSchultz

You may wish to take a look at the RoP:M minor general virtue (whose name escapes me: Innate Characteristic? Something like that) that grants a +3 to what amounts to a specialty; the trick being that it grants that bonus to ALL skills that can have that specialty. So basically you can take "good aim", and have that apply to all abilities that you can aim with.

In context, I find this useful when I want to design a character that has multiple craft or profession skills, as they usually will have similar specializations.

Of course, you'll need to come up with an appropriate descriptor, as it has to be a description of the character, rather than an actual ability specialization. So "rock" or "underground" wouldn't work, but "cautious" or "creative" or "artistic" would. (In meta-gaming convention, this is the generalized parent virtue for all of those "+3 to a specific circumstance" sort of minor virtues.)

Noble's parma, but is the term you are looking for perhaps 'Essential Trait'? Or perhaps Faerie Sympathy Traits?