Competence (roleplay)
In the roleplays, the competence is a relative or absolute quantified value indicating the control of the character for a specific activity. Contrary to the characteristic which appears the capacities general and intrinsic of an individual as the force or will for example, competences appear the capacity of the character to carry out specific tasks that all the characters necessarily do not know such as for example driving a vehicle, coding a computer software, to make research in nuclear physics…
A competence is generally a capacity acquired by teaching, the drive and the practice. It approaches the most concept of trade, of what the character can do. It can also be used for the knowledge of a particular field of the character
According to the rules, competence for an activity can have or not a maximum value. Competence can influence the speed of execution, the chances of success or the power of the effect of the activity, even the quality of the object which it creates according to the systems.
Number of system of rules deduce a competence starting from a characteristic. If the drive makes it possible to make assemble a competence, the characters profiting from better an associated characteristic will profit from a better score.
A subsequent evolution is more not to bind competence to one and only one characteristic but to treat it like a no-claims bonus applicable to the characteristic most adapted to the described action. Thus, if one imagines a character equipped with the capacity of control, the jet will be made according to its competence of dexterity if it must pass very quickly in a narrow zone, of reflex in the case of a continuation, endurance if it must roll at high speed all the night…
The whole of competences of a character can sometimes fix his level at the place of the experiment. The improvement of competence for an activity passes, according to the cases, by its practice, the drive, the reading of books or the attribution of points of competence given to each level, inter alia processes.