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Shadow Cat at 00:16, 19 March 2014

2014-03-19T00:16:21Z

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	The current system as outlined in DA2 requires the character to spend experience equal to his or her current rating in a skill to gain a specialization in that skill. It allows a character to have a number of specializations in a skill equal to half his or her rating in that skill, rounded up (1 at 1, 2 at 3, and 3 at 5). Having a specialty allows the character to roll one extra die in situations appropriate to that specialty. Instead of a specialty, characters may buy skill focuses, which are even more narrow than specialties, and provide two extra dice. For instance, if Germanic Languages is a specialty of Linguistics, American English would be a skill focus. A character may apply only one skill focus or specialization to any given roll (thus the maximum number of extra dice on a roll is 2, not 3).		The current system as outlined in DA2 requires the character to spend experience equal to his or her current rating in a skill to gain a specialization in that skill. It allows a character to have a number of specializations in a skill equal to half his or her rating in that skill, rounded up (1 at 1, 2 at 3, and 3 at 5). Having a specialty allows the character to roll one extra die in situations appropriate to that specialty. Instead of a specialty, characters may buy skill focuses, which are even more narrow than specialties, and provide two extra dice. For instance, if Germanic Languages is a specialty of Linguistics, American English would be a skill focus. A character may apply only one skill focus or specialization to any given roll (thus the maximum number of extra dice on a roll is 2, not 3).

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Bruce at 01:29, 7 June 2013

2013-06-07T01:29:06Z

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'''Specialties: Cannon Rules'''<br>
The current system as outlined in DA2 requires the character to spend experience equal to his or her current rating in a skill to gain a specialization in that skill. It allows a character to have a number of specializations in a skill equal to half his or her rating in that skill, rounded up (1 at 1, 2 at 3, and 3 at 5). Having a specialty allows the character to roll one extra die in situations appropriate to that specialty. Instead of a specialty, characters may buy skill focuses, which are even more narrow than specialties, and provide two extra dice. For instance, if Germanic Languages is a specialty of Linguistics, American English would be a skill focus. A character may apply only one skill focus or specialization to any given roll (thus the maximum number of extra dice on a roll is 2, not 3).

The problem is that the experience cost penalizes those characters who gain general mastery of a skill rather than specialize early. This seems arbitrary.

''Previous versions'' of the rule granted automatic specializations for each dot of a skill above 3, for free. Specialties granted no extra dice, but allowed the character to re-roll any '10' results on die rolls, adding subsequent successes to the rolls. This rule was replaced by the "extra die" rule above.

'''The New Rule'''<br>
Modify the experience cost to a standard: The first specialty in any given skill costs 1, the second costs 3, and the third costs 5. In the rare case that a character has 7 or 9 dice in a skill, the character may buy a fourth or fifth specialty for 7 and 9 experience, respectively. This is the minimum experience that a character would have to spend under the DA2 system.

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<b>Specialties</b>
<table width="300" border="1">
<tr>
<td>Number of Specialties in Skill</td>
<td>Cost of Next Specialty</td>
<td>Minimum Skill Rating</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>0</td>
<td>1 xp</td>
<td>1 dot</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>1</td>
<td>3 xp</td>
<td>3 dots</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>2</td>
<td>5 xp</td>
<td>5 dots</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>3</td>
<td>7 xp</td>
<td>7 dots</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4</td>
<td>9 xp</td>
<td>9 dots</td>
</tr>
</table>