Hegemony: Character Advancement

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This game will be broken up into Jobs with each job being a series of scenes that roughly map to an arc of (usually) five acts. Each job the crew completes earns each character two (2) experience. Experience can be spent to advance characters as follows:

Tier 0 Advances

Sometimes the game experience doesn't quite match with chargen expectations. Tier 0 adjustments exist specifically to deal with those sorts of tweaks and changes without leveling an xp tax for the privilege. Tier 0 adjustments are only available during and immediately following a character's first episode. Not all Tier xero changes are subsequently available via regular xp spends.

• Swap out a current Attribute Rank for another, or replace a || configuration for || or vise versa: 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode

• Swap out a current Role ranking for another: 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode

• Change a Knack: 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode (or later if it has never been used).

• Swap out one Relationship rating for another. 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode

• Swap out a Distinction: 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode

• Swap out a Distinction SFX. Cannot swap out Hinder: 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode.

• Swap out one Attribute SFX for another: 0 Experience during or immediately following character's first episode.

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Tier 1 Advances

• Change a Knack: 1 Experience
• Change a Distinction: 1 Experience If the distinction had active SFX, activate new SFX appropriate to the new Distinction. There should always be good fictional support to change a distinction.
• Change a Distinction SFX. Cannot swap out Hinder: 1 Experience
• Swap out one Attribute SFX for another: 1 Experience
• Add a new Knack to a or higher Role: 1 *Swap out one Relationship rating for another.

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Tier 2 Advances

• Add a Signature Asset SFX: 2 Experience Assets may have a max of one (1) SFX. Assets may have a max of two (2)
• Step up a Signature Asset to a : 2 Experience
• Step up a Knack by one die type: 2 Experience Knacks may not be stepped up higher than the Role they are attached to.
• Unlock a new Distinction SFX: 2 Experience Distinctions may have no more than three (3) SFX (this includes Hinder)

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Tier 3 Advances

• Step up a Role to or higher: 3 Experience No Role may be stepped up beyond and the Role may not be advanced.
• Step up one Attribute and step back another: 3 Experience No Attribute may be stepped up beyond or stepped back below

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Players may also donate experience to buff their ship (See Ship Advancement)

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