Skill overlap for martial arts

[Library Ogre]

My suggestion would be to simply add a +10% to the new skill; it was an important part of their training at both schools, and they learned something new from the Secondary school (since there's always something new to learn, especially from different teachers).

[Library Ogre]

And how many people are choosing martial arts for the skills?

[drewkitty ~..~]

The way I handle skill overlap is to add a level's worth of % or bonuses to the skill that has the greater bonus or level progression.

Given that there are a lot of skill programs with auto-pistol in them in NSS. If you had three programs with that skill, the char would start out with the A-Pistol at L3.

If you go with what mark suggested with what is for most skills a 2 level bonus, the above char would start with the wp AP at L6.

I use this mostly when combining the sub skills in Gym and Acro.