Star Wars: Edge of the Empire Rule Book

overcome a particularly capable opponent. Others

are more focused upon avoiding the brunt of an-

other's attacks. The nature of combat talents within

a particular talent tree reinforces the archetypical

nature of a particular specialization. Specializations

that focus on avoiding physical conflict have fewer

combat talents than those that are devoted to it.

The Force Sensitive Exile tree (found in Chapter VIII)

uniquely includes talents that are associated with Force

manipulation. Rather than representing a modification of

an individual's natural abilities, these talents are all linked

to the character's understanding of the Force. Just as some

characters acquire new physical abilities, the Force Sensi-

tive Exile grows in his ability to manipulate the Force.

Every talent tree offers access to Dedication. This

talent is the only way that a character can increase

one of his characteristics after creation is complete. It

only ever appears once on each tree and generally in

one of the last slots.

TALENT RANKS AND

PURCHASING THE SAME

TALENT MULTIPLE TIMES

Many trees have multiple entries for a single talent. This

is because many of the talents can be learned repeat-

edly. When a character learns a talent for the second—or

later—time, he gains an additional rank of the talent. With

few exceptions, there is no set limit to the number of ranks

that a character can possess of a given talent. Instead, a

character can learn as many ranks of each talent as are

present on any of his currently available talent trees.

Talents that are not ranked can only be purchased

a single time. If a character is advancing through a

specialization tree and reaches a talent without

ranks that he has already acquired from another

specialization tree, then he automatically purchas-

es that talent on his new talent tree without spend-

ing experience points.

EXAMPLE: PURCHASING RANKED TALENTS

Matt's character Robin has one rank of Point

Blank from the Gadgeteer talent tree. When he

later selects the Mercenary Soldier specializa-

tion tree, he may purchase up to an additional

two ranks of Point Blank, bringing Robin to a

total of three ranks of Point Blank. However, if

he had purchased the Spare Clip Talent, and lat-

er selected the Trader specialization, he would

not have to purchase Spare Clip again when he

reached it on the tree.

TALENT TREES

Any time a player wishes to select a new talent for his

character, he must first make certain that it is currently

accessible from one of the character's available spe-

cialization trees. In order to navigate to a new talent,

the character must have already purchased all of the

preceding talents listed on the tree, so that he can draw

a "line" from the top of the tree, through purchased tal-

ents, to the new talent. All such descents must follow

the available lines shown on each tree. Note that for

some trees, directly descending a column is not pos-

sible, because there is a break in the listing. In these

cases, the character must first descend a neighboring

column, and then follow the line over before moving up

or down the tree to access a desired talent.

Talent Descriptions

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description for each of the talents used in EDGE OF

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mation required for game play:

• Activation explains whether a talent is always
  in use (Passive) or if a character must take some
  sort of action in order to activate it (Active). If
  activation is required, the type of action neces-
  sary is indicated. Some talents can be activated
  on other characters' turns. If this is the case, the
  Activation will also include the "out of turn" note.


• Ranked indicates if a talent can be purchased
  multiple times (Yes) or only once (No).
  
  
  • Trees references the specialization trees that
    provide access to the particular talent. Note that
    for ranked talents, some of these trees may al-
    low the character to purchase the talent more
    than one time.
  
  
  • The final paragraph details the specific game me-
    chanics involved in using the described talent.
  
  
  
  

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