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Old 08-01-2016, 07:23 AM   #34
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Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Physician and Physiology

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Originally Posted by cdru View Post
Which makes Surgery a point-sink. Some specializations are rarely useful for adventurers (Since when your party had to do surgery on groins?), but are necessary in a situation when they come up.
You can avoid the point-sink if you make it a "mandatory optional specialisation" — or to phrase it in terms of a different rule, all of these now-mandatory Surgery specialties default to one another at -2.

The idea, as I understand it, is that every surgeon at TL 7/8 probably has some exposure to general surgical practice, but has much more experience within their chosen field (though I will gladly defer to acrosome if he suggests it is actually different).
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