TCArknight
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Howdy! Wish I'd have been able to make it to GenCon, then maybe I could have brought this up there. 
Anyway, in the Star Trek system I'm working on, skills can be the following:
(A specialty adds an effective +2 to the rank of the general skill)
1) General Skill - This is a skill with no Specialities. i.e. Mind Control 3 ( I guess there could be GM created specialties for these however.) Language skill is similar to this but each language is considered a different skill
2) Skill with Specialty - Skill such as Athletics where Climbing and Jumping are specialties. This would list on the sheet as Athletics (Climbing,Jumping) 3 (When climbing or jumping the character would have a +5 instead of the +3 from the general skill.) Skils can be purchased without a speciality (i.e. Athletics 3)
3) Group Skill - a Related set of Skills, with or without specialties; i.e. Science - Physics (Particle Physics) 3, Science - Chemistry 2. (listed as: Science - Chemistry 2, Physics (Particle Physics) 3 on the sheet)
I believe Cortex handles this by linking Specialties to a general skill through a < linkage> tag.
How does that work? Would that be the best way to handle this?
I think Mathias mentioned about this in the other thread, but I thought this might be a way to make it more visible for anyone working on similar..

Anyway, in the Star Trek system I'm working on, skills can be the following:
(A specialty adds an effective +2 to the rank of the general skill)
1) General Skill - This is a skill with no Specialities. i.e. Mind Control 3 ( I guess there could be GM created specialties for these however.) Language skill is similar to this but each language is considered a different skill
2) Skill with Specialty - Skill such as Athletics where Climbing and Jumping are specialties. This would list on the sheet as Athletics (Climbing,Jumping) 3 (When climbing or jumping the character would have a +5 instead of the +3 from the general skill.) Skils can be purchased without a speciality (i.e. Athletics 3)
3) Group Skill - a Related set of Skills, with or without specialties; i.e. Science - Physics (Particle Physics) 3, Science - Chemistry 2. (listed as: Science - Chemistry 2, Physics (Particle Physics) 3 on the sheet)
I believe Cortex handles this by linking Specialties to a general skill through a < linkage> tag.
How does that work? Would that be the best way to handle this?
I think Mathias mentioned about this in the other thread, but I thought this might be a way to make it more visible for anyone working on similar..