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DFRPG / Refinement and Specialization
« on: August 30, 2010, 08:07:38 PM »
I'm having a bit of confusion about this particular topic and was hoping someone could clear this up.
Refinement gives Specialization bonuses that must be structured in the same manner as skills. On YS249 it says (in bold no less) that Specialization bonuses do not stack.
Here's the question:
Does this mean that you can not take a refinement and gain a bonus in something you already have a specialization for? as they wouldn't stack and thus would be useless. Such as if you already have a +1 power specialization from the free evocation focus and then try to add +1 power and +1 control to the same element, would you end up with just +1 power and +1 control because the power bonuses don't stack?
If it's the case that they don't stack like that, would you then have to take another refinement to get +2 power, which would trump the +1 power already established and would be used instead? If so, how do you get more than +2 bonus on anything given that refinement can only give you 2 +1s and you can't stack them on top of any existing specializations?
Refinement gives Specialization bonuses that must be structured in the same manner as skills. On YS249 it says (in bold no less) that Specialization bonuses do not stack.
Here's the question:
Does this mean that you can not take a refinement and gain a bonus in something you already have a specialization for? as they wouldn't stack and thus would be useless. Such as if you already have a +1 power specialization from the free evocation focus and then try to add +1 power and +1 control to the same element, would you end up with just +1 power and +1 control because the power bonuses don't stack?
If it's the case that they don't stack like that, would you then have to take another refinement to get +2 power, which would trump the +1 power already established and would be used instead? If so, how do you get more than +2 bonus on anything given that refinement can only give you 2 +1s and you can't stack them on top of any existing specializations?