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yesferatu
Hey folks,

So I'm making a 5th ed. Rigger I'm having some trouble with skills.
I'm *probably* taking Skills at my A priority.
I am a huge fan of skill groups, and I understand the skill points at priority A are 46/10.
What if I want more than 10 points in skill groups?

Can I spend some of my 46 skill points to buy more groups?
I believe as long as I put 1 point into each of the skills in the group, I'm basically buying the group by default.
Is any of that correct?

Is it possible have the following:
From my A priority points:
Electronics Group: 5
Engineering Group: 5

Cracking Group: (6)
Electronic Warfare: 6
Cyber Combat: 6
Hacking 6
(At a cost of 18 skill points)

Thanks
RHat
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Oct 15 2013, 03:00 PM) *
Hey folks,

So I'm making a 5th ed. Rigger I'm having some trouble with skills.
I'm *probably* taking Skills at my A priority.
I am a huge fan of skill groups, and I understand the skill points at priority A are 46/10.
What if I want more than 10 points in skill groups?

Can I spend some of my 46 skill points to buy more groups?
I believe as long as I put 1 point into each of the skills in the group, I'm basically buying the group by default.
Is any of that correct?

Is it possible have the following:
From my A priority points:
Electronics Group: 5
Engineering Group: 5

Cracking Group: (6)
Electronic Warfare: 6
Cyber Combat: 6
Hacking 6
(At a cost of 18 skill points)

Thanks


That does work, technically - you'd be able to raise them as a group later. The only way to get actual savings for the group, though, is to buy it with your group points or with karma.
yesferatu
...but if I want more than 10 points in skill groups, I'm basically out of luck?
I may as well just buy all those skills and advance them separately.
RHat
QUOTE (yesferatu @ Oct 15 2013, 03:15 PM) *
...but if I want more than 10 points in skill groups, I'm basically out of luck?
I may as well just buy all those skills and advance them separately.


50 Karma is enough to buy a Rating 4 Skill Group from scratch, but otherwise yes. Given the skill group cost is 2.5xSkill Cost, you may be able to convince your GM to let you buy them at a 2:5 rate...
yesferatu
I think you're right.
It just completely defeats the purpose of having skill groups.
Thanks for the reply.
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