Professional skill seem cheap

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Steev

I generally use the PC’s career to baseline a lot of their skills eg a soldier would have skills in all things soldiery.

Looking at he skill professional skill and soldier they seem awfully cheap. At IQ 10 I can build a skill 18 soldier for 32pts which seems insanely cheap.

It's insanely high but not at all cheap for what the character gets because it doesn't include any comabt abilities or even soem non-coiombat stuff that has its' own skill.

The Wildcard or Bang! version mentioned by others would be skill with _all_ thing soldier-like including omabt and hiking and everything else but would cost much more points. 120 pts tp get to Soldier!-18 from a base 10 but that fellow is probably the best soldier in the world and doesn't have many Attributes at 10 anyway.

Of course, Wildcard Skils won't be allowed in many games and you'd ned to buy multiple Skills and for a truly great soldier there's be Attributes (primary and secondary probably) above 10 and useful Advantages too ( Combat Reflexes and Fit/Very Fit just for starters)..