Originally Posted by
Kirk Johnson-Weider
1) Reading NPC Skills: Let's take Kirk on page 239 of the Narrator's Guide. He has Armed Combat: Simple Weapons (Sword) +5. How do I read this? Is his base skill in all simple weapons +5 and he has a +7 with swords, or does he has a +3 in all simple weapons and a +5 with swords.
The former. That is his levels in the skills.
Also am I correct that for all the skills provided with published characters attribute modifiers and edges have been factored in already?
Nope. Attributes and Traits have not been factored in at all.
2)
Handling Specializations: OK if I have a character with Life Sciences +3 that is simple enough. Now the character takes a specialization of Genetics, giving the character Life Sciences (Genetics) +3(+5). If this character raises her Life Sciences to +4, I assume this also raises the specialization to +6, is this correct?
Correct. Specializations always add +2 to the level (which is why they're noted in the character stats as "+3" instead of "+3 (+5)". The specialty always adds the same amount).
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