Race Rules (at long last)

I'm not sure I understand the confusion on the classes and races, but I'll try to put it as plainly as possible:

Starting Professions: These are the only professions the race may start as.

Prohibited Professions: These are the only professions the race may never, under any circumstance, learn.  Neither James, nor the CCO can override these. Think of it like this, you can't get the Director to say "your slay does 500 max, while everyone else still does 400." Its the same thing here.

All other Professions: These may be learned any time after character creation.  Penalized professions are a part of this group, they simply cost slightly more.

what i meant by my first questions was i play a PC from coast haven and i would like to adopt it as my race, now can i buy the racial skills in logistics the next event i attend or will there be a NPC sent out to teach the new skills.

Matt, your question about learning the racial skills is answered on page 4 in the section called "Racial Skill List". All racials can be self taught and have a max of one purchase each.

Well, that 90% answers his question. He also wants to know - I assume - if he'll be able to come into game with them or if he'll need to self-teach them at that event. I'll answer it in broad form - you can acquire a racial skill if your racial skill set is changing as a result of these new rules.

For example, Matt's PC is changing from Kormyrian to Coast Haven. This changes his entire race, and so yes, he can spend available build on racial skills before the event begins. He has the most flexible option because his previous race doesn't have a skill list, so there's no way for us to say, x amount of build is what you spent before and can spend now.

If your PC had a racial skill that is now gone, you can respend that build immediately, on a racial skill if possible or on a profession skill otherwise.

Other changes will be handled on as limited a basis as is possible. While we want to accommodate everyone adapting their characters to the new rules in a way that they like, this is not an opportunity to rewrite your PCs. That's the spirit behind what will be allowed and what won't.

thank you

With the starting professions- I started with bard but its not on my list. I know I can choose another of my lists to have started with, but what happens if I had gotten the promo skill? Would I still get it?