DigitalSentience/Specialties, Handling Of

Hmm... Hardly seems worth its own page, but my basic idea for handling specialties was thus:

Any character can have as many specialties as he wants, basically. But the most bonus he'll ever get from them is +3. So 'Rapiers +3', 'Extreme Heat +2', 'Uneven Footing +2', and 'vs. Dread Pirates +1' could all belong to the same guy, but if he's fighting the Dread Pirate Roberts on a cliffside in 110-degree weather with the masterwork rapier of his dead father, he's still only gonna get, at most, +3 to his (no-doubt already considerable) melee pool.

1. It keeps master swordsmen from getting screwed over when they Exalt and get a Daiklave, but find their previous specialties really aren't applicable to a 6-foot-long sword that nonetheless weighs very little.

2. It gives people willing to buy extra specialties more flexibility, without letting them have ridiculous twinkery. Our Spaniard friend up there, after all, will still be in pretty good shape even if he has to fight that fight with just a sharpened stick, because all his other specialties will still apply.