SW Talent Informant

Star Wars – Talents of the Galaxy

Passive Talent – Informant

Specialisations

You can only take this talent once per tier, and it counts as being taken in all other specialisations in that tier.

• Tier 4 Talents – Propagandist, Skip Tracer (D4)

Specialisation – Propagandist (Social)

Based on Star Wars Are of Rebellion – Despirate Allies – Diplomat – Propagandist p 79.

• SW Career Skills – Charm (Pr), Deception (Cun) Knowledge – Warfare (Int), Perception (Cun)
• SR Career Skills – Charm (Pr), Deception (Cun) Knowledge – Corporations (Int), Perception (Cun)
• Starting Character gains one rank in two career skills of their choice.
• These skills become additional Career skills.
• Level 1 Talents – Cutting Question (A), Grit (PR), In the Know (PR), Positive Spin (PR)
• Level 2 Talents – In the Know (PR), Positive Spin (PR), Positive Spin – Improved (A), Toughened (PR)
• Level 3 Talents – Bad Press (A), Confidence (PR), Grit (PR), Well Rounded (PR)
• Level 4 Talents – Confidence (PR), Dodge (AR), Informant (A), Toughened (PR)
• Level 5 Talents – Confidence (PR), In the Know (PR), In the Know – Improved (A), Positive Spin (PR)

(A) Active Talent (P) Passive Talent (R) Ranked Talent

Specialisation – Skip Tracer (Investigation)

Edge of the Empire – No Disintegrations (sw-ffg-ee-nd-29)12

• SR Career Skills – Cool (Pr), Knowledge – Underworld (Int), Negotiation (Pr), Skulduggery (Cun)
• SR Career Skills – Cool (Pr), Knowledge – Shadowrunners (Int), Negotiation (Pr), Skulduggery (Cun)
• Starting Character gains one rank in two career skills of their choice.
• These skills become additional Career skills.
• Tier 1 Talents – Bypass Security (PR), Good Cop (PR), Hard-Boiled (PR), Rapid Recovery (PR)
• Tier 2 Talents – Bought Info (A), Expert Tracker (PR), Street Smarts (PR), Toughened (PR)
• Tier 3 Talents – Hard-Boiled (PR), Rapid Recovery (PR), Street Smarts (PR), Street Smarts – Improved (A)
• Tier 4 Talents – Bypass Security (PR), Good Cop (PR), Informant (A), Nobody’s Fool (PR),
• Tier 5 Talents – Hard-Boiled (PR), Nobody’s Fool (PR), Reconstruct the Scene (A), Soft Spot (A)

(A) Active Talent (P) Passive Talent (R) Ranked Talent

Fantasy Flight Games Rules

• Talent – Informant – 20 XP
  • Activation – Active (Action)
  • Ranked – No
  • Trees – Propagandist, Skip Tracer
  • When required to make a Knowledge skill check, the character can instead make a Bought Info action. They spend a number of credits equal to 50 times the difficulty of the check and counts as succeeding on the check with one uncancelled success. At the GM’s discretion, the character may not be able to use this ability if the information sought is particularly esoteric or hard to find, or if the character is in a situation where they could not purchase information (such as marooned on a planet with no access to the HoloNet).

Genesys Rules

In the Genesys system this becomes a Tier 4 talent.

• Talent Tier 4 – Informant – 20 XP
  • Activation – Active (Action)
  • Ranked – No
  • When required to make a Knowledge skill check, the character can instead make a Bought Info action. They spend a number of credits equal to 50 times the difficulty of the check and counts as succeeding on the check with one uncancelled success. At the GM’s discretion, the character may not be able to use this ability if the information sought is particularly esoteric or hard to find, or if the character is in a situation where they could not purchase information (such as marooned on a planet with no access to the HoloNet).

Content Updates

• 2022-08-14 – Linked into the Propogandist tree.
• 2022-06-27 – Linked to the Skip Tracer tree.

SW Talents

Tier 1 – Adversary (R), Bacta Specialist (R), Black Market Contacts (R), Brace (R), Bypass Security (R), Command (R), Convincing Demeanour (R), Cutting Question, Defensive Stance (R), Dodge (R), Expert Tracker (R), Fearsome (R), Feral Strength (R), Forager, Frenzied Attack (R), Gearhead (R), Good Cop (R), Grit (R), Galaxy Mapper (R), Hard Headed (R), Hard-Boiled (R),Hidden Storage (R), In the Know (R), Intimidating (R), Iron Body (R), Lethal Blows (R), Machine Mender (R), Outdoorsman (R), Overwhelm Defences (R), Parry (R), Point Blank (R), Positive Spin (R), Precision Strike, Rapid Reaction (R), Rapid Recovery (R), Second Wind (R), Shortcut (R), Side Step (R), Smooth Talker (R), Stalker (R), Speaks Binary (R), Stimpack Specialisation (R), Street Smarts (R), Surgeon (R), Toughened (R), Up the Ante (R)

Tier 2 – Bad Cop (R), Bought Info, Confidence (R), Debilitating Shot, Deft Maker (R), Disorient (R), Durable (R), Eye for Detail (R), Full Throttle, Hunter (R), Jump Up, Jury Rigged (R), Knockdown, Martial Grace, Planet Mapper (R), Positive Spin – Improved, Precise Aim (R), Quick Draw, Quick Strike (R), Second Chances (R), Spare Clip, Strong Arm, SurSwift

Tier 3 – All-Terrain Driver, Anatomy Lessons, Armour Master, Bad Motivator, Bad Press, Double or Nothing, Enduring (R), Field Commander, Fortune Favours the Bold, Grapple, Heighten Awareness, Loom, Offensive Driving, Precision Strike – Improved, Skilled Jockey (R), Sniper Shot (R), Speaks Binary – Improved, Street Smarts – Improved, Stim Application, Stunning Blow, Talk the Talk, Targeted Blow, Unarmed Parry, Well Rounded (R)

Tier 4 – Blooded (R), Clever Solutions, Contraption, Deadly Accuracy (R), Double or Nothing – Improved, Field Commander – Improved, Hunter’s Quarry, Informant, Let’s Ride, Mind Over Matter, Nobody’s Fool (R), Overbalance, Redundant Systems, Speaks Binary – Supreme, Stim Application – Improved, Stunning Blow – Improved, Tinkerer (R), True Aim (R), Unrelenting Skeptic, Walk the Walk

Tier 5 – Amour Master – Improved, Bring it Down, Coordination Dodge, Crippling Blow, Double or Nothing – Supreme, Hard Headed – Improved, Heroic Fortitude, Hindering Shot, Hold Together, Hunters Quarry – Improved, In the Know – Improved, It’s Not that Bad, MASTER (Doctor, of Shadows), NATURAL (Brawler, Charmer, Doctor, Enforcer, Hunter, Marksmen, Negotiator, Outdoorsman, Rogue, Tinkerer), Reconstruct the Scene, Reroute Processors, Shortcut – Improved, Soft Spot, Stim Application – Surpreme, Superior Reflexes, Supreme Precision Strike, Unrelenting Skeptic – Improved

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