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[Deggial]

Hi everyone,

I am about to begin a Shadowrun 4th edition campaign for the first time. While reading the core rule book on character creation, there is an issue about skills and skill groups that was not clarified properly.

According to the rules, a player can spend karma points during the campaign so as to increase a single skill that previously belonged to a skill group that now "breaks".

Can the same thing be done during character creation? For instance, let's say that a magician spends 40 points to the Sorcery skill group to 4, then wants to "break" the skill group and raise Spellcasting on its own to 6, spending an additional 8 points.

Do you think this is feasible during character creation? Is there any official FAQ or errata that clarifies this?

[Nim]

I think that's Magic in the Shadows, James.

I understand what they were going for with the skill groups, and it makes sense, but I have to admit that it bugs me that it's possible to have two characters with EXACTLY THE SAME SKILLS, yet they paid different costs for them because of the order in which they bought them. It makes going back and sanity-checking a character 20 sessions down the road a pain in the ass.