Specialization for operative - problem with the skills
Hi
So one of my players is a operative, with the specialization detective. This allows him to get the skill focus feat for free for Culture and Sense motive as well as 1 free rank in those skills at each operative level.
The problem is with this free skill. if you put the skill as a rank, it will count against the given number on top op te skill list.
Is there any other way to give this free rank without it counting against this number?
You can argue that you can put it into misc, but that's confusing aswell, and also if it's a class skill you won't get the +3 the first time you put a rank into it.
The skills need a rework overall, since you get different bonusses and you can't specify them. So you have to track every bonus on paper. It needs to be divided into devine, insight, luck, ... bonusses; so you can easily see if a new bonus is higher than the last, since bonusses of the same type do not stack.
It would be really helpful, for me as a GM aswell to keep an eye on this and to help my new players better understand the system.