I was rereading the Hardware Character write-ups for something I will be posting later, but I noticed a rule that can be read two ways. I've always played it one way, but I worry I may have cheated some of my players.
Let's assume you have character with 2 years of college (2 skill programs). You play an Electronics Genius, you know have 1 program left. You decide to double up with a Weapons genius. You lose your 3 Attacks and halve your skill bonuses. Obvious and Done. Now, do you also have to spend 1 more program for the Weapon Genius, or did the loss of Attacks and bonuses cover it? I've always run it that, each HW specialty costs a skill program, but it turns out the rules are unclear. Does anyone allow them to keep the skill program?
Stupid Hardware Question
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Re: Stupid Hardware Question
Fermat wrote:I was rereading the Hardware Character write-ups for something I will be posting later, but I noticed a rule that can be read two ways. I've always played it one way, but I worry I may have cheated some of my players.
Let's assume you have character with 2 years of college (2 skill programs). You play an Electronics Genius, you know have 1 program left. You decide to double up with a Weapons genius. You lose your 3 Attacks and halve your skill bonuses. Obvious and Done. Now, do you also have to spend 1 more program for the Weapon Genius, or did the loss of Attacks and bonuses cover it? I've always run it that, each HW specialty costs a skill program, but it turns out the rules are unclear. Does anyone allow them to keep the skill program?
Yes, they do NOT have to pay a second skill program to get a second hardware area of expertise. In this case, instead of sacrafising a skill program to learn the specalized skills of a second hardware type, they sacrafised hand to hand training.
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Re: Stupid Hardware Question
Yep, the loss of one skill program (or all scholastic skills, in the case of the Analytical Genius) is the price you pay for being a hardware character at all, rather than the cost of a single hardware specialty, so it's a price you only have to pay once.
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