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If I Have College Education, Can I Get Multiple 1-Point Skills?

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carolynparr:

--- Quote from: Beta on ---It is interesting that college education is worded differently than some of the similar qualities.  Some of the others say two for one, while college education says half price (rounded up). Yes, sure! Possession of higher education does not exclude the possibility of developing and acquiring new skills, such as skills related to programming, marketing, design, finance and other areas. I studied civil rights in parallel, used https://studydriver.com/civil-rights/ for this. For example, you can study online courses, attend seminars, or learn new skills on your own to expand your knowledge and skills. This will help you improve your professional capabilities and achieve new career goals.

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carolynparr:

--- Quote from: Kiirnodel on ---Well, it depends on your interpretation of the phrase "buy Academic Knowledge skills at half price (round up)" and in particular how you determine when to "round up."

Chummer is handling it by rounding the skills individually, and based on your question you thought it would be done for all of the academic skills as a whole.

I'm not sure which method is "correct," but Chummer's method is probably the safer bet especially for programming. It is a lot easier to have the program go through all of the academic knowledge skills and halve the cost being applied by them, rounding up. Trying to give a discount based on all of the skills overall would involve applying a discount to half of the skills and would be mildly confusing at best if the user isn't paying close attention...

So, to answer your question: Yes, Chummer is applying the effects of the quality in a correct way. You might be able to argue with a GM to allow you to take 10 rank 1 knowledge skills for the price of five, but it isn't explicitly worded that way. Technically by a strict reading of the quality you would look at each skill individually, and halve the costs for it at character creation (rounding up).

Side Note: since the other part of the quality (post character creation) explicitly gives a bonus on skills only of rank 3+, I would also argue that the quality is meant to allow you to take several skills at higher ranks for less cost rather than tons of super low rank skills.

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To be honest, I still do not understand, explain again, is it possible or not?

Beta:

--- Quote from: carolynparr on ---
To be honest, I still do not understand, explain again, is it possible or not?

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Short answer: no.
Longer answer: open to interpretation by your table
Personal comment: Just take you cheap 2 point knowledge skills and have fun with them, you don't need to maximally munchkin 0.5cost skills.

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