Cultural Backgrounds and Professions: Doing the Math

[Innerwall]

It looks like all of the cultural backgrounds and professions in the core rule book have an even value in percentiles (70 for backgrounds and 50 for professions-- I think). I was just flipping through the Companion book and, unless I’m missing something, there’s no consistency regarding point value, and a lot of the options are in the 80-90 percentile range. Just making sure I’m reading this right.

 

[Halfbat]

Yes, it's 50 for professions, but some end up with a "weaker" character for some types of play.

I normally work on 90 for backgrounds plus "10" for Lore(own region) and 50 for Language(own) to give a nominal total of 150.

I'll double -check that.

Edit: Yes. 90, if you count Advanced skills at base level as "10" each. It may be that you missed the Advanced skills.

 

[Deleriad]

It looks like all of the cultural backgrounds and professions in the core rule book have an even value in percentiles (70 for backgrounds and 50 for professions-- I think). I was just flipping through the Companion book and, unless I’m missing something, there’s no consistency regarding point value, and a lot of the options are in the 80-90 percentile range. Just making sure I’m reading this right.

You're missing something. Advanced skills "cost" 10% each to learn at the base score. Generally
Cultural background = 100% +50% language and
Profession = +50%
Add the 100% of free choice and you get 250% worth of increases. There might be the odd deviation but I've not seen one.

 

[Innerwall]

Excellent. Thank you! 90 (excluding native language and regional lore, which is the same for all characters). Essentially a buck fifty.