Re: Learning Time (was Re: Skill Costs).

[Jevan Furmanski <furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Steve Ames wrote:

> > Yeah, one week per rank to pick up a skill.   So by my understanding, if I
> > wanted to get rank 14 swimming, I'd be out of play for 14 weeks so my
> > character could learn to do the butterfly.
> 
> Yep :) Maybe some time period more closely related to the base
> cost of the skill? Complexity... and really it hasn't been that
> big an issue in game terms so GMs (quite rightly IMO) ignor it.
> 
> 							-Steve
> 


I've always contested that restricted skills require time, because they
cant be learned on the fly.  Other skills like swimming can be learned on
the fly by the supermen that adventurers are, but not int based ones or
ones that are non defaultable or restricted.  That is my spin, and I think
it would help to limit the near vertical curve of warriors.  Spells should
be treated similarly.

Jevan F.