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Same question with Free skills. A Journeyman character CAN choose free skills that are available starting at Journeyman tier to put into their Journeyman free skill slots. What if they choose a skill that is available at Novice, does the skill advance using the AP cost of a Novice or Journeyman free skill?
Statistics:Posted by ChrisDDickey — Thu Jun 06, 2019 12:59 am
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One of my players has posed a question that I can't answer. On the chart on 266, it seems to say that you have to have 4 Core skills to advance to PR 2. What if you start with only 3 Core Skills and fill the rest up with Optional Skills? Since you don't get new Skills until PR 2, does that mean you are trapped at PR 1 until you die, or does that simply mean that you have to pick up at least 1 Core Skill when you rank up?
Statistics:Posted by Slimcreeper — Sat Apr 06, 2019 12:24 am
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P269 is wrong. You gain Free Skill slots at each advance in Professional Rank. This is in the errata. Sorry about that, it got past us.
Statistics:Posted by Andrew1879 — Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:06 pm
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I'm writing some stuff for the upcoming companion, so I have some insight into what is being planned next. There's some stuff I haven't read (like the upper level Professions), but what they are working on is really going to complete the game. And of course my chapter is super tight. Or will be once they edit it all to heck.
Statistics:Posted by Slimcreeper — Sun Dec 31, 2017 5:03 am
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I've been playing Earthdawn since its inception (actually, we played the 3-pamplet intro to the game before its release and were immediately hooked), so I was really excited to see a new steampunk-style game with similar mechanics. We haven't taken it for a spin yet, but I love the fluff and am really intrigued by the professions and stuff so far.
Statistics:Posted by KevinB — Sun Dec 31, 2017 1:01 am
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The table on p269 is a subset of the table on p266, showing the Skill slots gained at Tier advancement. The chart on p266 is the primary source, the chart on p269 an extract. Yes, you get slots for Core/Optional and Free Skills at all Professional Ranks. The sentence on p269 that says you only get Free slots when you advance in Tier is another relic of earlier mechanics that got missed in the cleanup.
per Andrew. As far as the Professional Abilities, my understanding is that you don't get any until you click that Journeyman Tier. And then you get them all - which a pretty dramatic power jump. I guess you get Durability at Novice, which makes for a pretty dramatic bump. Maybe when you hit Warden and Master there will be some other abilities you gain. I honestly haven't read anything about that and don't know, but it seems like a reasonable guess.
Statistics:Posted by Slimcreeper — Sun Dec 31, 2017 12:35 am
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On that topic, it's unclear as to exactly how the Professional Abilities are gained.Andrew1879 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 10, 2017 3:17 pmProfessional Abilities are not gained until Journeyman Tier for any Profession. Sorry, we'll make that more clear in a future edition, and add it to the Errata.
Do you get all of the listed abilities immediately upon entering a new tier?
Do you only get one per Professional Level (this is my assumption, considering there are 4 per tier for the lower tiers, but only 3 at Master tier)? If so, do you choose which one to gain, or are they gained in order?
Also, another thing that needs to be cleared up...
Are Free Skill slots gained at every level or only when advancing tiers? Page 269 of the Players Guide mentions that "Advancing in tier is the only way that Characters gain slots for Free Skills", but the table on page 266 shows Free Slots being gained at every Professional Level.
Help please!
Statistics:Posted by KevinB — Sat Dec 30, 2017 10:04 pm
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