Re: 1/4 eeps per skill limit

["Patrick C. Collins" <drunsen@ecicnet.org>]

Lyle H Janney wrote:

> As for players with magic pencils, well, there isn't a lot you can do
> about that unless we do implement some form of book-keeping.  I
> can see us eventually having everything on a computer, but that is
> a long way off.  However, I can also see the possibility of the GM's
> performing some form of spot-checking on characters.  For example,
> I check one week and see that John Doe has a rate 20 adventurer;
> I check again a couple games later and find that his adventurer is
> now rate 40.  If no GM can provide a reason for this advancement,
> it's time to take John D. aside and inform him of _The Rules_ and
> let him know that confirmed cheating will result in him being asked
> to leave the club.  Perhaps the Senior GM's should make a list of
> all the living adventurers and their ratings as of a certain game date.
> Every month or two, we can go through the adventurers and check
> for 'magic pencil' problems.  This will also work to find those hearty
> adventurers that seem to come out of nowhere at rate 50.
>
> Lyle

As for magic pencils..I think some players are just plain stupid...or
"mathematically challenged" in a more 90s way.

For example, someone not great at math (and you don't HAVE to
be to get into Purdue..as  evidenced by an x girlfriend's 820
on her SAT (total)...after her fourth try).....may assume that
to buy ..say...longsword from 4 to 7 it just costs 7 x 360 experience.
..that person would forget about the 5th rank and 6th rank.

Now, you think "so why not buy from 0 to 7 instead of 0 to 4
to 7 instead under this system?"

Well, this same mathematically challenged person wouldn't
think of that.

Worse pencil I've ever seen (besides the one case of an all quarter
breed with at least 4 18s that Dan verbally reprimanded) was
a rating 60+ adventurer that averaged around 3900 xp per
rate.

I made up a little quiz at one time to test players' rules knowledge.....
about 5 or 6 questions on buying up skills, buying up spells, and
calculating DVs.

Example question:

Rogar the Rogue wants to buy longsword skill.  It is currently
at 3.  What's the cost to buy it from 3 to 6?  Longsword
is a base 360 warrior skill.

??????????

-Pat

ps...and the hardest question was for Karin the warrior/fire mage
to buy dimensions from 1 to 2.