Specialties

Players may wish for their character to have a certain area of expertise within an Ability. This expertise is reflected by Specialties. During character creation, distribute four Specialties amongst your character's Abilities. You may also purchase more of them with bonus points.

Your character may never have more than three specialties for an Ability. Keep your concept in mind when choosing specialties (a smooth talking merchant might choose "Wheeling and Dealing" as a Socialize specialty, while a diplomat might choose "Graceful Tact"). You don't need to purchase specialties, but they serve to flesh out the character. They're also useful for building a character who is good at one particular part of an Ability but not all of it and for making a character who has a really superhuman mastery of an Ability.

Unless specified otherwise, specialties cannot add more than three dice to a roll.

• Basic Mechanics: Specialties