Your hero is exceptionally good at a useful skill. Doctors, cat burglars, starship pilots, grifters, technicians, or any other concept that focuses on expertise in a non-combat skill should pick the Expert class. Experts are the best at such skills and gain more of them than other classes do.
Just as a Warrior can be relied upon to make a shot when the chips are down, an Expert has a knack for succeeding at the moments of greatest importance.
Once per scene, an Expert can reroll a failed skill check, taking the new result if it’s better. This benefit can be applied to any skill check, even those that the Expert isn’t specially focused in. Their natural talent bleeds over into everything they do.
In their chosen field, however, the Expert is exceptionally gifted. Aside from the free focus level that all PCs get at the start of the game, an Expert can choose an additional level in a non-combat focus related to their background. They can spend both of these levels on the same focus if they wish, thus starting the game with level 2 in that particular knack.
Class Abilities
Every Expert PC has certain special abilities.
• You gain a free level in a non-combat focus related to your background. Most concepts will take Specialist in their main skill, though Diplomat, Starfarer, Healer, or some other focus might suit better. You may not take a combat-oriented focus with this perk. In case of uncertainty, the GM decides whether or not a focus is permitted.
• Once per scene, you can reroll a failed skill check, taking the new roll if it’s better.
• When you advance an experience level, you gain a bonus skill point that can be spent on any non-combat, non-psychic skill. You can save this point to spend later if you wish.
Hit Points and Attack Bonus
To get your starting maximum hit points, roll 1d6 and add your Constitution modifier, to a minimum of 1 hit point. Your attack bonus is equal to half your character level, rounded down, so it’s +0 at first level.