Creativity

This skill provides a character with training and talent (or

knowledge) in a variety of creative endeavors. A character with the

Creativity skill has a well-developed sense for the aesthetically

pleasing, a facility for communicating with the written word, and the

ability to convey and evoke powerful emotions through a chosen medium.

A character with just the broad skill possesses all of these

characteristics, but not to such a degree that he’s able to make a

living as an artist, writer, or photographer. Turning the Creativity

skill into the basis of a career (or being able to produce work of

professional quality, if a character has another career) requires that

the character pursue a specialty skill in his chosen field(s).

Using the Creativity skill involves a complex skill check, with a

situation modifier based on the conditions under which the work is

being done and a number of successes required related to the

complexity of the task at hand. (Dashing off a cute, four-line poem

might be merely an Ordinary accomplishment, but composing a lyrical,

Shakespearean-quality sonnet would be Amazing.)

If the complex skill check ends in a Critical Failure, or three

Failure results are obtained before the check is completed, whatever

the character was trying to produce is scrapped (it just wasn’’t

turning out right).

Creativity, Specific Skill

A blank line is provided under the Creativity skill on the

character sheet for a player to use if his character specializes

in some aspect of this skill. The Gamemaster will determine

if a certain specialty skill is allowable, usually based on whether it defines a narrow enough field of interest. For instance, illustration might be allowed as a Creativity specialty, or

it might be necessary for a character to be more specific by singling out computer graphics or holo art as his area of expertise.