Hello all...
I just need a confirmation.
After reading the book its not clear to me what to do with STARTING CAREER SKILLS that are listed in a grey box for each careers.
Does the player get those skill at a basic level (so 1/2 stat to use) or are they all trained?
What confuses me is the fact that some of the skills listed under the STARTING CAREER SKILLS also appear in the list of purchasable skill for Rank 1.
Thanks for the insights.
RTFM.
They all start trained. This exact issue is described in an inset box near the beginning of the character creation chapter. I'd give you a page number, but I don't have a book nearby. Go look it up.
Mmmm...
Then why do they bother putting the same skills in the rank 1 list?
If I am not mistaken, it is specified when you can upgrade the skill (ex: Command +10).
Right?
For GM's to base Elite advances of in case of an alternate career (Into the Storm)
The reason for it is stated in the errata, which you can get from the Support section of the forum.
I think that was the single worst decision about career layout. It is so unclear, sure we all know it know, and there is an errata for it, but I call BS on anyone who will claim that it did not throw them for a loop when they first cam across it.
If we renamed every forum here to "Rank 1 lists skills that are given automatically when taking the career. They are there purely to confuse you", I think we could decrease about half of the posts made.
ReaperOfTheLost said:
I think that was the single worst decision about career layout. It is so unclear, sure we all know it know, and there is an errata for it, but I call BS on anyone who will claim that it did not throw them for a loop when they first cam across it.
It didn't throw me for a loop, or lots of others. You can call BS all you want, but the fact that the same system was used for Dark Heresy made it obvious that it was intended to show you the XP costs of your starting skills.
I think it was a great decision. I've had characters transition from DH Careers to RT ones and it was really handy knowing what those starting skills cost.
I have to say, I understood what was going on when I first read Dark Heresy. Then again I was also one of the only people on the boards to understand the way Storm worked when it was introduced.
The system makes more sense when you realize that all your starting skills are counting toward your next rank advancement.