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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 535481" data-attributes="member: 2525">1) Why is Intelligence 13+ a prerequisite? Using ability scores for a prerequisite is extremely rare, and done only with one occupation that I can recall (athelete).  Why not just use age?2) There is no such thing as Knowledge: Programming, nor Knowledge: Telecommunications or Networking.  Nor is it a particularly good house rule, since the Knowledge description specifically says you should not create additional Knowledge skills, but instead force Knowledge fields into one of the listed skills.  I would suggest you just leave it at Knowledge: Technology.1) There is no such thing as Profession: DJ, Promoter.  There is only one Profession skill, and it is a catch-all for all professions.  This was intentionally changed in d20 Modern to avoid the mess that Profession skills became in D&D.2) There is no such skill as Perform: DJing (though there is one for dance).  Nor would this make a good house rule, since the skill specifically says you should not make up new Perform classifications, but instead force new perform ideas into one of the 8 existing listed skills.  I would just choose one of the listed perform skills, like Act, Keyboards, or Stand-up.Generally speaking it is rare to have choice of 2 of 7 skills, a feat, AND a +2 to wealth.  Usually when a feat is offered, the wealth bonus is +1, though there is one exception with the Investigator.  In this case, I would add a reputation bonus, and subtract a wealth bonus.1) Again the minimum ability seems unecessary, compounded by the fact that the prerequisite is a 15, much higher than any other prerequisite in the book.2) Also again you use the rare +2 modifier to wealth along with a feat and wide array of skills, but with no reputation bonus.  Again I would swap one point of wealth here for a point of reputation.1) Again you use ability scores as a prerequisite, and again a 15 is used.  This is compounded by the use of Age as an additional prerequisite.  I just don't see the need for this, particularly since we are just talking about a Gambler here. You can be a Gambler with even a negative modifier to your Wisdom, just not a very good one.  I would get rid of the ability requirement and just stick to the age requirement.Overall I like where you are going here with the seedy underworld theme, I just think these occupations could use some more tweaking.</blockquote>

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