Skills with Few Specializations

Okay, it is 0355 CDST and I have been up way too long. I swear someone has done this before but now I can't find it. . .so I made my own. What do you all think of expanding the Streetwise Skill Specializations abit? I was thinking. . .

Streetwise (Intellect)
Locate Contraband, Locate Crime Figures/Thugs, Locate Hangouts/Hideouts, Underworld of Specific Planet or Race (Ferengi, Klingon, Orion Syndicate)

Seems good to me, but that could be the lack of sleep. I am also tossing around the idea of just skipping the Specializations for this Skill alltogether and just allowing characters to take, for example, "Streetwise 2" and let that cover everything listed in the above specializaiton group.

Ideas, thoughts or comments?

I don't have my ICON books here, so I have nothing to compare it to, but your proposal seems to make sense. I wouln't change anything about it.

Sweet dreams. :)

In Icon it was quite typical to have specialities way higher than the parent Skill. I am not overly fond of the Icon System, but that does make allot of sense, because most people's knowledge is very specialised.. Knowing Where to buy an illegal gun on the streets of New york doesn't make you automatically Au-Fait with the backstreets of Phnom Peng, but it would help... So a high speciality in a specific location coupled with a low general skill sounds good to me!

One specialisation I added to Streetwise was the ubiquitous-in-other-games Carousing - the ability to find a party or a game, to locate small amounts (personal consumption) of possibly illicit recreational sunstances, pay-for-play companionship, etc...

Oh, I like that Owen! I can see Kirk, McCoy and Scotty having that specialization. :cool: So we now have:

Streetwise (Intellect)
Carousing, Locate Contraband, Locate Crime Figures/Thugs, Locate Hangouts/Hideouts, Underworld of Specific Planet or Race (Ferengi, Klingon, Orion Syndicate).

Thanks guys. I am really liking this (glad it just wasn't the lack of sleep).