I saw woomeras used competitively at the Yuendumu Sports Day in the early 1980s, at Yuendumu, NT, Australia. The range increase was impressive, and skilled users did not suffer much in the way of accuracy.
I was surprised to see this thread had been necroed. Its so old, I was working at the office when i posted it. Ive had some time on my hands since and have done a bit of reading. Definately square with the Battle skill now.
The base rate for Survival skill is 15%. He gets another 5% by virtue of being from Old Tarsh. He gets 0% extra from his Knowledge skills bonus, although that could benefit that way with a different build. The other 10% must be from skill points assigned during chargen.
Its not too hard to have a serviceable Survival skill for a starting PC, but I agree that no bouns for the Hunter occupation seems like an oversight.
p50 "the poem to to covey the patron’s feelings". First "to" should be "is"?
P52 Skilled Entertainers table mentons the Perform Skill. RQG has no Perform skill.