Palladium House Rules 1.

I love the Palladium games but one of the things that has always struck me is that a lot of the class abilities and skill success rates were just arbitrarily chosen and there seems no real way to balance things out.

So the primary idea is to balance the system at least a little bit. So my first idea is to streamline skills. Instead of each class having a different success rate, the same group of skills would have the same success rates as follows:

OCC skills have a base of 40% plus 3% per level following the first.
OCC Related Skills have a base of 35% plus 3% per level following the first.
Skill Programs have the same rate as OCC related skills.
Secondary Skills have a base of 30% plus 3% per level following the first.

These rates are further modified by the Intelligence Quotient bonus and any other appropriate bonuses found in either determining the education level of the character (PHU pg 44 & 45) or OCC class skill sections.