> Does anybody see a problem with starting with some generic keywords
> (like the above) and waiting to flesh them out during character
> generation or play?
Another possibility (or one that could be used in parallel) might be to define one standard "technical professional" keyword, which leaves one or two abilities blank and to-be-defined for each specific technical profession.
E.g., all technical professionals get "college education", "ignore/disdain non-technical people", and "write obtuse papers", along with two specialized abilities. For a computer programmer, those two are "program computer" and "consume vast amounts of caffeine"; a research biologist gets "use biotech lab equipment" and "ponder biology while you should be paying attention"; etc.
Sort of adds another layer of keyword onto the keyword scheme, but it doesn't seem too inappropriate.
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