Can a Character take the same Skill Specialty more than once?

Do you mean, can a a character have two DIFFERENT specialties for a specific skill, or buy a specialty TWICE, granting an additional Fortune die?

eg.:

PC has Stealth (specialty: Urban) and Stealth (specialty: Rural)

OR

PC has Stealth (specialty: Urban X 2) for two fortune dice?

Necrozius said:

I assume he's talking about the latter; and the sense I get is no. You can train in Stealth, but you'll only ever take a specialty once. So if you have trained Stealth twice + the specialty Urban, you would roll your characteristic dice + 2 expertise + 1 fortune.

HedgeWizard said:

That sounds right to me.

However, *I* have been wondering about the former. Can you have two specialities for one skill?

If not, taking a skill advance to gain specialty sounds like a bad deal if you plan on finishing your career ... you'd lose out on the "free" specialty.

CitizenK2 said:

I'm pretty certain there is no limit to the amount of specialities you can have for a single skill.

But I agree with everyone who has said that you aren't supposed/allowed to take the same speciality again because if you could you would end up with melee speciality "Handweapon*5" being very common, etc. etc. for other career important skills.

HedgeWizard said:

Yes, I was talking about the second "option".

Thank you for your answers!