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@@ -16,8 +16,7 @@ Neon Sprawl’s design work here starts from **concrete visions** of progression
 
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-- **Skills** — progression feel, caps, synergies, failure modes.
-- **Professions** — identity, fantasy, how they differ from pure skill bundles.
+- **Skills** — the core classless progression: training, caps, synergies, failure modes, skill families in UI/content. *Professions* are optional only if they mean something skills do not (e.g. diegetic titles, faction job routing, starter focus)—otherwise fold “what you are” into the skill graph and reputation, not a separate system.
 - **Zones** — tone, danger, faction or economic role of a place.
 - **Travel & connections** — how places link (gates, costs, downtime, danger en route); complements zone identity.
 - **Mechanics** — loops, constraints, what the server vs. client must honor.