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==Tech-Level Modifiers==
Technological skills work best with the specific artifacts and techniques of their own [[TL]]. When you work with equipment or concepts of a TL different from that of your skill, you suffer a penalty to your skill roll.

===IQ-Based Technological Skills===
[[IQ]]-based technological skills represent a studied technical understanding of the specific methods and tools common at a particular TL. There is a penalty to your skill roll when you use these skills with the equipment of a higher TL (which relies on scientific and engineering principles unknown to you) or a lower TL (which depends on principles that were, at best, a "historical footnote" during your training).
{|
|-align="center" style="background:#eeeeee"
!align="left"|Equipment's TL!!Skill Penalty
|-align="center"
|align="left"|Skill's TL+4 or more||Impossible!
|-align="center"
|align="left"|Skill's TL+3||-15
|-align="center" style="background:#eeeeee"
|align="left"|Skill's TL+2||-10
|-align="center" style="background:#eeeeee"
|align="left"|Skill's TL+1||-5
|-align="center"
|align="left"|Skill's TL||0
|-align="center"
|align="left"|Skill's TL-1||-1
|-align="center" style="background:#eeeeee"
|align="left"|Skill's TL-2||-3
|-align="center" style="background:#eeeeee"
|align="left"|Skill's TL-3||-5
|-align="center"
|align="left"|Skill's TL-4||-7
|-align="center"
|align="left"|Per extra -1 to TL||-2
|}
===Other Technological Skills===
Technological skills based on attributes other than [[IQ]] let you use technology; they do not assume any real understanding of the science or engineering behind the tools. For instance, a [[TL5]] gunslinger accustomed to firing a Colt Peacemaker might find a [[Colt_Python, .357 Magnum|TL7 Colt Python]] a bit strange, but he would have little difficulty shooting it.

For skills like this, apply a flat penalty of -1 per [[TL]] of difference between the skill and the equipment. For instance, a [[TL5]] gunman would be at -2 to shoot a [[TL7]] revolver. It is irrelevant whether the equipment is more or less advanced – a [[TL7]] policeman would be at -2 to fire a [[TL5]] revolver, too.

[[Category:Tech Levels]]
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