Hello SWRPG Community!
Before we start, I just wanted to remind the community that our development Discord can be found HERE
And our Master Development Documentation can be found HERE
Last time you saw us, we had just finished the Spy Update. And with the Smuggler review done, we have officially closed the book on Edge of the Empire! Outside of small edits, of course. The Age of Rebellion review will follow the same structure as Edge, with Age career reviews following similar conceptual Force & Design Careers. Stay tuned for that.
As we mentioned during the Hired Gun review, most of the reviews for the closing of Edge was squaring design circles, maximizing cohesion between language in Age and Edge, and editing things shorter for Oggdudes and Hyperdrive generator. This go round, that was the editing pass of Smuggler, Explorer, and Technician, and a smattering throughout Age and Edge to enforce talent version consistency.
Speaking of Smuggler, my favorite update this dev cycle was decidedly the Fringer. I love the “traversal” part of travel, and all the fun ways this specialization now plays with astrogation will surely find a home at your table. The non-spec, which has a record 4 original talents left from its RAW version, is an odd-jobbing, throttle punching, dodge-rolling survivor. I also really like how we changed the Scoundrel to be a tad more streamlined in the specialization tree, and how Friends in Low Places feels better to use.
As you’ll read in the above announcement, we’re working on the Force (and are practically done with the first 8), but there’s still so much left to do! We’re also happy to mention that we are beginning the work of putting together the eventual reSpecialized Sourcebook. We have invited a sourcebook writer onto staff, and are looking for more help with layout design and sourcebook copy writing. Please drop us a line if you’re interested in pitching in!
Anyway, here are the links for the current updates!
Smuggler Career Review
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Cargo Drop, Mustafar Special, Wretched Hive,
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Removed Stellar Distraction from the specialization.
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Added the Talent Fly Casual to the specialization
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Rearranged the right side of the tree to reflect the additions and removals.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Happy To Help, Improved Happy To Help, and Improved Kill With Kindness.
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Removed the talents Plausible Deniability, Distracting Behavior, and Bolstering Presence from the specialization.
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Added a rank of Convincing Demeanor, Savvy, and Dynamic Personality
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Rearranged the right side of the tree to reflect the additions and removals.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Against The Odds, Make Your Own Luck, Reversal of Fortune, Raise The Stakes, Improved Raise The Stakes, and Swindler
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Updated Let’s Make It Interesting to to change the activation to be post-gamble, rather than before.
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Moved Fortune Favors The Bold to C20 and Let’s Make It Interesting to C15
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Shoot First and Trick Shot
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Renamed Improved Spitfire at D25 to Improved Guns Blazing
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Updated Ask Questions Later to be structured more intuitively.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Boring Conversation Anyway, Double-Cross, Master Of Dealing, Opportunist, and Swindler.
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Replaced the previous version of Friends In Low Places with the current ranked talent, making the talent broader and more impactful.
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Replaced Jack Of All Trades with another rank of the newly-designed Friends In Low Places.
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Restructured the A10 through C15 section of the tree to reflect the additions and removals.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Improved Bypass Security, Decoy, Dirty Tricks, Exit Strategy, Fade Away, and Stakeout
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Updated Decoy to use the Courier’s version of the talent.
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Explorer Editing Review
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Improved Conditioned, Field Researcher, Improved Historian, Knowledge In Action, Sterner Stuff, Unearth The Answer.
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Updated the short and long text of Watch Your Step! as well as updating the name.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Gatherer, Improved Hunter, and Supreme Hunter
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Updated From the Shadows and Know Your Prey to use the Survivalist and Assassin’s versions, respectively.
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Updated Improved Fine Tuning so that it and the templating of Improved Solid Repairs are congruous.
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Updated Quick Pickup to use the Bodyguard’s updated text.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Desperate Scramble, Fearless Jump, Jack Of All Trades, Odd-Job, Master Of None.
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Paths Uncharted has been updated to be structured more modular, less “all or none”
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Read The Wind, Improved Read The Wind, and Supreme Read The Wind
Updated the following talents using text updates from other specializations: Always Prepared (Gadgeteer), Bolster (Assault Specialist), Improved Bolster (Mercenary Soldier), On The Lookout (Bodyguard), and The Land Provides (Survivalist). -
Changed Natural Remedy to be usable in all environments with the same requirements/costs.
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Replaced Gatherer with Outdoorsman.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of It’s A Bargain!, Market Connections, Improved Market Connections, Supreme Market Connections, and Improved Wheel And Deal.
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Updated Bargain Hunter to reflect the version from the Entrepreneur.
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Updated the name of It’s A Bargain! and It’s A Steal! to include the intended punctuation.
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Reduced the value of the substituted goods in Something More Real to 125% instead of 150%.
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Technician Editing Review
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Energy Siphon, Master Cyberneticist, Stronger Than Flesh, Improved StrongerThan Flesh, and Supreme Stronger Than Flesh
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Reduced the rate of boost addition from Improved More Machine Than Man to bring it to sensible levels.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Accomplished Accomplice, Droid Companion, Compelling Counterpart, Directive, Supreme Directive, and Thank The Maker.
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Renamed Binary Allies to Binary Companions to thematically link it to Droid Companion.
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Updated Improved Directive so that both droids being directed can be within Medium range, rather than just the additional droid.
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Updated Improved Machine Mender to allow the Droid Tech to improve the defenses in any combination, and add a stipulation to limit repeat uses on the same droid.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Improved Bad Motivator, Emergency Bypass, Improved Fine Tuning, and Percussive Maintenance.
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Updated both Improved Fine Tuning and Improved Solid Repairs so that they both have congruous templating.
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Note: There was an issue with change management in a previous update that neglected to make the following changes:
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Add Always prepared to D10
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Moved Percussive Maintenance to A15
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Removed Contraption from the specialization entirely.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Hidden Feature, Improved Tinkerer, Signature Superiority, Improved Signature Vehicle, and Unlocked Potential.
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Updated both Master Of Arms and Improved Master Of Arms with the Gadgeteer’s version
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Clarified the hour requirement in Special Modifications long text.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Just Like New, Make It Dangerous, and Improved Make It Dangerous.
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Updated Cannibalize so that it is applicable to crafting and creation talents like Contraption.
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Cleaned up and shortened the short and long text of Disruptive, Improved Disruptive, Delayed Response, Forceful Expulsion, Ghost In The Machine, Logic Bomb, Shadowfeed Secret.
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Ensured that Improved Bypass Security is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Miscellaneous Updates
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- Replaced Know-It-All with Careful Planning.
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- Ensured that Improved Bypass Security, Disruptive, Improved Disruptive, and Ghost In The Machine are all using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Heal Thyself is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Directive, Improved Directive and Percussive Maintenance are all using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Master of Arms is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Ensured that Trigger Discipline is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Replaced each rank of Brace with Bolster, and removed Improved Bolster.
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Renamed Weapons Free to Time-Splitter.
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Move Sustained Fire from B20 to C20
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Created a new talent at B20, and named it Weapons Free, as it was more appropriate.
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- Ensured that Improved Bypass Security is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Ensured that Cannibalize is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Updated both Improved Fine Tuning and Improved Solid Repairs so that they both have congruous templating.
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- Replaced Know-It-All with Careful Planning.
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- Ensured that Improved Surgeon is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Bargain Hunter and Improved Wheel And Deal are using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Improved Signature Vehicle is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Ensured that Improved Bad Motivator, Improved Bypass Security, and Making A Door are all using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Replaced Time To Go and Improved Time To Go with Hit The Deck and Improved Hit The Deck.
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- Replaced Know-It-All with Careful Planning.
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- Ensured that Dirty Tricks is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Improved Thorough Assessment is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Ensured that The Land Provides is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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Reordered the D Column, moving The Land Will Provide at D15 to D20, and Outdoorsman from D20 to D15
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Reordered the A-Column, Outdoorsman at A15 to A5, Toughened at A5 to A10, and Blooded at A10 to A15
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- Ensured that From The Shadows, Gatherer, and The Land Provides are all using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
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- Ensured that Lighten The Mood is using the most up-to-date verbiage from newer reSpec versions.
