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Originally Posted by Kelly Pedersen
Sorry, this one's completely off. The Melee Weapons and Fencing Weapons sections in the book are just categories of skills, grouped for convenience. You can't buy skill in the whole category, you still have to buy the skills individually.
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Yes, but there is of course an exception with the "wildcard skills", which are a kind of super-group-skills if you want to have it that way... ;-)
@Redbeard78:
For instance "Fencing! 14" (note the exclamation mark "!") would mean that you really have a skill level of 14 for _every_ kind of fencing weapon, saber, rapier and what have you... Moreover your character would _know_ everything about fencing weapons, e.g. where in the town can you get the best rapiers at a fair price etc. Or you could easily identify the fencing style of that strange saber fighter to know where he comes from... and things like that.
But wildcard skills ( or bang! skills as they are also called) are a very expensive special thing, not often used in common games more typical for supers, high powered cinematic campaigns etc. If you're interested, they are described in the Basic Set, too.