Careers & Specs
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About Careers
A Career sets the character along a certain path or way of life, but is by no means limiting. A Career is a broad archetype or template of related Skills and abilities.
Career Skills
Each Career has eight associated Career Skills. These Skills should be checked on the character sheet to indicate they are Career Skills.
During play, Career Skills are less expensive to train and improve than non-Career Skills.
Character Creation (Career Skills)
When choosing a Career, the player may choose four of the eight starting Career Skills and gain one rank in each of the selected Skills free (they do not spend experience points). They may not choose the same Skill more than once.
See also: Experience Points - Acquiring Skills
Purchasing Additional Skills
See: Experience Points - Purchasing Skill Ranks
Careers
About Specializations
Specializations represent focused expertise within Careers, and provide special abilities called Talents.
See also: The Force
Character Creation (Specializations)
Each character gains access to one Specialization without spending experience at character creation. That Specialization must be one in their chosen Career.
Each Specialization also includes four additional Career Skills. These four Skills should be marked on the character sheet as Career Skills if they are not already marked.
During this step of character creation, the player may choose two of the four additional Career Skills and gain one rank in each (without spending experience). They may not choose the same Skill more than once. However, they may choose to train a Skill that was also trained during the Career selection step, allowing the character to start with a Skill trained to level two.
If the character can choose multiple Specializations at character creation (whether due to some factor of character creation or because they purchase an additional Specialization with starting experience) they must select one and only one Specialization from which to choose their two free ranks in two Career Skills.
Purchasing Additional Specializations
See: Experience Points - Acquiring New Specializations
See also Experience Points - Acquiring Talents
Specializations
See also: Force Sensitive Exile
About Signature Abilities
These abilities are special, elite talents for experienced characters of the specified career. They are feats only possible through the skill and ability gained over a long and successful career.
See: Signature Abilities