toodeep wrote:
Extra credit question – how about passive knowledge checks? Again, strictly speaking I’m sure it doesn’t apply, (especially since it says, “You gain a +10 bonus to all Logic Action Skill Rolls when attempting to recall facts within your focused field of knowledge”) but that seems silly to me, that if you have gone through the work of specializing in a field, that you would only get the application on rolls, but not your passive, I mean generally, either you know something or you don’t, right?
Logically speaking I would agree with you, but the rules are very clear. A talent has to specifically state that it adds to your passive before you gain that benefit.
I have also been concerned that there isn't a list of pre-approved specializations for PCs to pick from. If, for instance, I were to put ranks in
Knowledge (Religion: That ritual they do on in Savona on Tuesday nights), I have absolutely no guarantee that it will ever come up in a module. If, on the other hand, each knowledge skill had a PCI-approved list of a half dozen subcategories, then players and module authors would be on the same page.