Scholar skill

[Savar]

So reading char descriptions from WEG most chars have scholar specializations. I have only seen a few with a strait up scholar skill. I think all scholar "specializations" be a separate base skill.
Because every time i think of rolling a basic scholar check i am thinking it should be the knowledge attribute.

[CRMcNeill]

The character Rekkon, from Han Solo at Star's End, has Scholar 11D+2, but he was an exceptionally gifted university professor, and his stat sheet is most definitely Knowledge-heavy.
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[Savar]

Luke Skywalker has 5D in it for Jedi academy.

[garhkal]

Sparks has it where for each full D you have in the scholar skill, you get one "Field of study".
ME i would rather see each field of study for scholar be its OWN skill.

So a character who say has the fields of study, Numerology, Advanced mathematics and Cyrptology would have 3 separate scholar skill listings. Each advancing on its own.
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[Savar]

[griff]

Every area of stud that I use is its own normal skill . I call them scholar specific skill not scholar specializations.
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[Whill]

Scholar has limited uses in most campaigns and I do not feel that Scholar specializations are as valuable as a normal Knowledge skill, so I personally do not feel each specialization should be considered a normal skill for allocation and advancement purposes. However, I do think the max base Scholar skill should be limited in far it can advance before a character should have to specialize.

Non-Scholar Knowledge skills in general are primarily based on experience, while Scholar represents academic knowledge. Some people can be booksmart without being worldly. I view the base Scholar skill to represent basic education at a lower die level, and university general studies at a little higher level. So general academia is something you could (not likely often) use the base Scholar skill for. But there aren't any bachelor or above degrees in general studies, so even college majors (and minors) are Scholar specializations. Of course people can just be better students than others and have a stronger academic base for specializing, like some of those with graduate degrees.

Since the Scholar skill, like all other (non-advanced) Knowledge skills, defaults to the Knowledge attribute, all characters have the Scholar skill at least at their base Knowledge attribute die value. So if you are going to have a max base Scholar skill, intuitively the max should be the species max Knowledge skill. In my game, only Scholar specializations can go above the species Knowledge attribute max. So a character with the max Knowledge attribute for their species will not have the base Scholar skill because they already have the max base Scholar skill.
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