Engineering Kits

[brian schneider]

Are there only two specialty types of Engineering Kit (Weaponsmith and Armorsmith or is there as pecialty kit for each application of the engineering skill?

Example: can you have a Bomb Maker's Kit that grants a +4 bonus to the Arm Explosives application of the Engineering skill?

Also Can you have a specialty kit for Engineering checks made as part of star-ship combat?

Example: a kit that gives you a bonus to Engineering checks specifically to divert energy to shields or divert energy to weapons?

[EC Gamer Guy]

I would say that there are only those 2 specialty kits specific to crafting.

Home game can have anything your GM allows.

There are other ways, I think, to get the ship-based bonuses like computers and such. But also, ship combat is specifically dumbed down as far as bonuses allowed.

[Lane_S]

I thought it implied there were more types.

[LordRiffington]

I don't see a kit making sense in terms of ship combat. You're already using the ship's controls/computers for that.

By RAW there only appear to be those two engineering tool kits, though I'd add things like electronics and mechanical as well.

[EC Gamer Guy]

One to remember is that the system is designed to have a limited number of bonuses available. The ones you can get from kit (from memory) are for repairing weapons, resizing/repairing armor and for profession checks. Adding in available +4 bonuses puts PCs 3-4levels ahead on DCs they can hit.