Envoy Expertise and Sense Motive

[kpb1966]

From what I'm reading, the expertise die can only be applied to class skills with at least one rank assigned except for Sense Motive. Is that correct?

[Deadmanwalking]

That's correct, yes.

Though it's actually more restrictive than that, it's only skills from the specific list under Skill Expertise that have one rank in them. Plus Sense Motive.

That's actually a great deal more restrictive, since that's a total of 9 skills and an Envoy can easily have 19 Class Skills at 1st level.

[Distant Scholar]

Deadmanwalking wrote:

That's correct, yes.

Though it's actually more restrictive than that, it's only skills from the specific list under Skill Expertise that have one rank in them. Plus Sense Motive.

That's actually a great deal more restrictive, since that's a total of 9 skills and an Envoy can easily have 19 Class Skills at 1st level.

Easily?

[Firebug]

Distant Scholar wrote:

Deadmanwalking wrote:

That's correct, yes.

Though it's actually more restrictive than that, it's only skills from the specific list under Skill Expertise that have one rank in them. Plus Sense Motive.

That's actually a great deal more restrictive, since that's a total of 9 skills and an Envoy can easily have 19 Class Skills at 1st level.

Easily?

Actually, all skills. There are a total of 20 skills.

Envoy starts with 16 class skills.
One from Theme: Bounty Hunter/Priest/Scholar/Spacefarer/Xenoseeker.
Two from Skill Synergy.
This brings it up to 19 class skills.
However, since Humans start with 2 feats you can take Skill Synergy more then once.

20(21*) Class Skills at level 1.

[Deadmanwalking]

Distant Scholar wrote:

Deadmanwalking wrote:

That's correct, yes.

Though it's actually more restrictive than that, it's only skills from the specific list under Skill Expertise that have one rank in them. Plus Sense Motive.

That's actually a great deal more restrictive, since that's a total of 9 skills and an Envoy can easily have 19 Class Skills at 1st level.

Easily?

As noted it's one Feat and a proper Theme (say, Xenoseeker) away.