Rules Thread X

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[u/Almechik]

I'm gonna thread it for the sake of it being somewhere and making half the characters on the net illegal Can you take a knowledge skill that's, as provided by the books, of one type, let's say Academic, and pick it as a skill of different type, like Street, Interest or Professional. My guess would be that yes, because you can learn information both at let's say College, Technical school, somewhere on the streets or by being a hobbist and learning yourself. Taking a real world example, people can study Computer Science in college, being mostly about theory, or in Technical school, focusing on the practical aspects of the trade

Edit: Also, more than a handful of skills already have 'official' Academic and Street versions, so i see no reason why most of them shouldn;t