Acquiring New Psychic Techniques

By immaterium, in Rogue Trader Rules Questions

I have a question regarding acquiring new psychic techniques for the Astropath.

In the Career Paths chapter of the book, it lists the advance as Psychic Technique (x2) and the cost in xp. Now I would assume that would mean you can select two psychic techniques up to that price. However, on page 158 in the core rulebook it states that, "once the psyker has spent xp to acquire the Psychic Technique Tallent, he may learn a single technique of equal or less xp value from a Discipline he has access to and may use it at will."

While that wording is pretty clear, I am unsure of why in Career Paths it appears that you can select two techniques.

Could someone please clear this up for me?

immaterium said:

I have a question regarding acquiring new psychic techniques for the Astropath.

In the Career Paths chapter of the book, it lists the advance as Psychic Technique (x2) and the cost in xp. Now I would assume that would mean you can two psychic techniques up to that price. However, on page 158 in the core rulebook it states that, "once the psyker has spent xp to acquire the Psychic Technique Tallent, he may learn a single technique of equal or less xp value from a Discipline he has access to and may use it at will."

While that wording is pretty clear, I am unsure of why in Career Paths it appears that you can two techniques.

Could someone please clear this up for me?

Each option on a character's advance scheme can only be purchased once at any given opportunity unless otherwise stated; Psychic Technique (x2) means that you can buy the Psychic Technique talent twice from that rank, and once you've bought both of those, you have to wait until the talent appears in another rank before you're allowed to buy it again.

Thank you for the clarification. happy.gif