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
  • Skip Tracer (D4) expands to Good Cop (C4)

Fantasy Flight Games Rules

• Talent – Informant – 20 XP
  • Activation – Active (Action)
  • Ranked – No
  • Trees – 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).

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SW Talents

Tier 1 – Adversary (R), Brace (R), Bypass Security (R), Defensive Stance (R), Dodge (R), Expert Tracker (R), Forager, Good Cop (R), Grit (R), Galaxy Mapper (R), Hard-Boiled (R),Intimidating (R), Iron Body (R), Lethal Blows (R), Machine Mender (R), Outdoorsman (R), Overwhelm Defenses (R), Parry (R), Precision Strike, Rapid Recovery (R), Shortcut (R), Stalker (R), Street Smarts (R), Toughened (R)

Tier 2 – Bought Info, Debilitating Shot, Disorient (R), Full Throttle, Hunter (R), Jump Up, Jury Rigged (R), Martial Grace, Planet Mapper (R), Point Blank (R), Precise Aim (R), Quick Draw, Quick Strike (R), Spare Clip, Swift

Tier 3 – All-Terrain Driver, Anatomy Lessons, Armour Master, Enduring (R), Grapple, Natural Enforcer, Offensive Driving, Precision Strike – Improved, Skilled Jockey (R), Sniper Shot (R), Street Smarts – Improved, Stunning Blow, Targeted Blow, Unarmed Parry

Tier 4 – Blooded (R), Deadly Accuracy (R), Informant, Let’s Ride, Mind Over Matter, Nobody’s Fool (R), Overbalance, Stunning Blow – Improved, Tinkerer (R)

Tier 5 – Amour Master – Improved, Coordination Dodge, Crippling Blow, Heroic Fortitude, Hindering Shot, Master of Shadows, Natural Brawler, Reconstruct the Scene, Shortcut – Improved, Soft Spot, Supreme Precision Strike

Free – Dedication (R)

R – Ranked

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