Star Wars – Talents of the Galaxy
Active Talent – Soft Spot
- Source: Edge of the Empire – Core Rules (sw-ffg-ee-cr-148)
- Specialisations
- Fantasy Flight Games Rules
- Genesys Rules
- Design Details
- Content Updates
As an Incidental, Add Cunning to one successful non-vehicle attack.

Specialisations
You can only take this talent once per tier, and it counts as being taken in all other specialisations in that tier.
- Tier 5 Talents – Scoundrel (tba), Skip Tracer (D5), Survivalist (B5)
Specialisation – Scoundrel (Smuggling)
Based on Star Wars Edge of the Empire – Smuggler – Scoundrel p 84.
- SW Career Skills – Charm (Pr), Cool (Pr) Deception (Cun), Ranged – Light (Agil)
- SR Career Skills – Charm (Pr), Cool (Pr) Deception (Cun), Ranged – Light (Agil)
- Starting Character gains one rank in two career skills of their choice.
- These skills become additional Career skills.
- Level 1 Talents – Black Market Contacts (AR), Convincing Demeanour (PR), Rapid Reaction (AR), Street Smarts (PR)
- Level 2 Talents – Convincing Demeanour (PR), Quick Draw (A), Quick Strike (PR), Rapid Reaction (AR)
- Level 3 Talents – Black Market Contacts (AR), Hidden Storage (PR), Side Step (AR), Toughened (PR)
- Level 4 Talents – Hidden Storage (PR), Rapid Reaction (AR), Side Step (AR), Toughened (PR)
- Level 5 Talents – Black Market Contacts (AR), Natural Charmer (A), Soft Spot (A), Quick Strike (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
Specialisation – Survivalist (Survival)
Edge of the Empire Core Rulebook (sw-ffg-ee-cr-70)
- SW Career Skills – Knowledge – Xenology (Int), Perception (Cun), Resilience (Br), Survival (Cun)
- SR Career Skills – Knowledge – Shadowrunners (Int), Perception (Cun), Resilience (Br), Survival (Cun)
- Starting Character gains one rank in two career skills of their choice.
- These skills become additional Career skills.
- Level 1 Talents – Expert Tracker (PR), Forager (P), Outdoorsman (PR), Stalker (PR)
- Level 2 Talents – Expert Tracker (PR), Hunter (PR), Outdoorsman (PR), Swift (P)
- Level 3 Talents – Expert Tracker (PR), Grit (PR), Stalker (PR), Toughened (PR)
- Level 4 Talents – Blooded (PR), Expert Tracker (PR), Hunter (PR), Toughened (PR)
- Level 5 Talents – Enduring (PR), Heroic Fortitude (A), Natural Outdoorsman (A), Soft Spot (A)
(A) Active Talent (P) Passive Talent (R) Ranked Talent
Fantasy Flight Games Rules
- Talent – Soft Spot – 25 XP
- Activation – Active (Incidental)
- Ranked – No
- Trees – Scoundrel, Skip Tracer, Survivalist
- After making a successful attack with a non-starship/vehicle weapon, the character may spend one Destiny point to add damage equal to their Cunning to one hit of the successful attack.
Genesys Rules
In the Genesys system this becomes a Tier 5 talent.
- Talent Tier 5 – Soft Spot – 25 XP
- Activation – Active (Incidental)
- Ranked – No
- After making a successful attack with a non-starship/vehicle weapon, the character may spend one Destiny point to add damage equal to their Cunning to one hit of the successful attack.
Design Details
I moved this from a Tier 2 Survivalist to a Tier 5 survivalist as I feel that keeping the same tier for all the specialisations is important.
Content Updates
- 2022-06-27 – Linked in to the Scoundrel, Skip Tracer, Survivalist 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)
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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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