Skill Specializations


Ranks and Skilll Points

Spending skill points to gain extra areas of specialized skills such as Knowledge or Perform is unrelated to spending skill points on ranks.

 

For example, a 1st level character with Academia could spend 4 skill points on the skill group, gaining 4 ranks in one type of knowledge. He could then spend additional skill points to buy other areas of knowledge (as many as he wanted, at a cost of 1 point per area).

 

Note that a new area costs 1 skill point, not ‘one rank in the skill’, so you can’t get new areas as part of a skill group, you have to buy them separately. (the first area comes free as part of getting 1 rank, so you don’t need to spend a skill point on it).

 

When you gain a rank in one of these skills, it applies to all specializations you possess in that skill (including if you got the rank via a skill group). When you purchase a new specialization, it starts with the same number of ranks as your existing specializations.


 

Skill Specializations and Skill Focus

See Skill Focus for details.