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Post by wolffman007 on Nov 13, 2014 18:13:01 GMT -8
our group is having a debate about technical skills if a character starts with robotics 7, does he actually get computer technician at skill 3 & electrical & mechanical 4? are these true skills that can be improved upon? if you decided to improve these would you start at level 1 & go from there? effectively start over? its not real clear thanks
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Post by SavageGM on Nov 14, 2014 4:51:48 GMT -8
If you have robotics 7 you do get computer technician 3 and electrical & mechanical 4 as "true skills" which if improved on their own would go to 4 and 5 respectively. But if you already have skill points in those other skills, these benefit skill points are not added to those skills due to high robotics skill. So if you only level robotics you won't reach max in those other skills and will need to improve them individually. It's the equivalent of you need to have a certain about of electrical and mechanical know how just to be able to make a robot and the high level of robotics knowledge demands a certain degree of understanding in these other areas of study.
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Post by rexbannon on Nov 14, 2014 5:37:54 GMT -8
SavageGM hit the nail on the head. I couldnt say it better myself. Characters that start with robotics rank 7 are extremly rare and valuable as strong support characters. they almost shouldnt even be used to go out into the field were they could easily be killed. But on the other hand they need to in order to rank up and get END point increase for survivability reasons.
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Post by wolffman007 on Nov 14, 2014 12:34:45 GMT -8
my side of the debate is the same as SavageGm i said they would be "true" skills & not "phantom" or such they were saying they said if you decided to improve them, then youd start at lvl 1 skill & I pointed out thats like going backwards & restarting your leaning (it dont make sense to me) and yeah i know none of these free skills stack with each other or existing, never said they did some people just think weird. lol
the character in question rolled technician for his caste & got an 11 on the 2d6 roll for skill levels and 7 of those came up robotics, as the average roll is in the range of 8-11
hence why the high level to start
thanks for the input so far folks
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Post by SavageGM on Nov 14, 2014 15:21:15 GMT -8
No problem happy to help!
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