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    Free Skills

    I'm building an Operative and they get two 'free skills' but when I look at Ranks Spent it says 2 even though I haven't put any more ranks into other skills. I know I can modify this myself but I feel that it could confuse people who are less familiar with the ruleset.

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    The ranks for the free skills are added on top of the ones you get for being an operative. They are automatically placed into the proper skills by the rule set and FG recognizes them as spent ranks. But, your total ranks (8+Int Mod+Race(if human)) will be two higher than what you would normally have to account for the automatically added ranks.

    Example, A level 1 Human Operative with a +3 Int mod would get 12 (8+3+1) points to spend in ranks. I chose the Ghost spec and get the free points in Acro and Stealth. I still have the 12 points to spend even though there are 2 points are spent in Acro and Stealth. The total available to spend will 14 to account for the 2 free ranks and the normal 12.

    Hope this clears things up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blahness98 View Post
    The ranks for the free skills are added on top of the ones you get for being an operative. They are automatically placed into the proper skills by the rule set and FG recognizes them as spent ranks. But, your total ranks (8+Int Mod+Race(if human)) will be two higher than what you would normally have to account for the automatically added ranks.

    Example, A level 1 Human Operative with a +3 Int mod would get 12 (8+3+1) points to spend in ranks. I chose the Ghost spec and get the free points in Acro and Stealth. I still have the 12 points to spend even though there are 2 points are spent in Acro and Stealth. The total available to spend will 14 to account for the 2 free ranks and the normal 12.
    I know that's how it's supposed to work but when I initially went to build my character it did not include these ranks. I had to manually go in and modify how many skill ranks I got from the class because it did not give me the two extra 'free skill' ranks for the class. I have since tried to replicate it (after your response) and it has appeared the way it was intended.

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    Looks like another quirk with the SF rule set. Just out of curiosity, what spec did you use the first time and on the second try did you use the same one?
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    I used the same spec on each try. The issue may have been my indecision earlier on in character creation for where I wanted to put my 10 point buy but that's only speculation at this point. In the end I had stats set to 13 int (so +1) which by normal metrics means I had 9 ranks plus the two free skills but it only showed I had 9 to spend including the use of the two free skills. I manually changed it to 11 to compensate for the free skills and it has been fixed ever since, even in a new campaign (which I wanted to make sure it wasn't only fixed in the campaign I was in)

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    I think I have the same problem.
    Human Operative 14 intel with Thief spec : showing 11 skill points (so 8 + 2 intel + 1 human), no skill points already put in the two skills...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weptak View Post
    I think I have the same problem.
    Human Operative 14 intel with Thief spec : showing 11 skill points (so 8 + 2 intel + 1 human), no skill points already put in the two skills...
    Did you edit the skills to mark them as free???
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    Quote Originally Posted by deer_buster View Post
    Did you edit the skills to mark them as free???
    Probably not... is it the unlabeled check in the edit menu ? I was under the impression it was for marking as a class skill, as it is the only header in that section...


    EDIT : Ok, it is indeed that check box to mark as free. It would be useful to replace the "Class Skill" header label (the unaligned lock-like icon) that is still displayed when you select "edit list" and replace it with a "free skill" label.

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    Last edited by Weptak; May 4th, 2021 at 06:51.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weptak View Post
    Probably not... is it the unlabeled check in the edit menu ? I was under the impression it was for marking as a class skill, as it is the only header in that section...


    EDIT : Ok, it is indeed that check box to mark as free. It would be useful to replace the "Class Skill" header label (the unaligned lock-like icon) that is still displayed when you select "edit list" and replace it with a "free skill" label.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Weptak View Post
    Probably not... is it the unlabeled check in the edit menu ? I was under the impression it was for marking as a class skill, as it is the only header in that section...


    EDIT : Ok, it is indeed that check box to mark as free. It would be useful to replace the "Class Skill" header label (the unaligned lock-like icon) that is still displayed when you select "edit list" and replace it with a "free skill" label.

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    lol I stumbled upon that myself with an Operative I had just made for SF Society!

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