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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8164517"><p>I posted a section from my book on Imperial Exams (a few pages back now I think, but it includes a quoted section on the exams and the tests for them), there is a whole procedure laid out which I used (it basically boils down to attending the relevant exams when they are offered then passing all the skill checks on the list (which isn't easy). That said, that is just the method I opted for and included in my game. I wanted that part of the setting to have mechanical heft. But by this style, a GM could have done that with rulings instead of having a pre-laid out system. The big issue with the exams is the time between them. If you could take them every day, it would be easy enough, but they are an event organized by the empire, and they take them pretty seriously as they are how you gain entry into the imperial bureaucracy. So I've actually had a number of players set out to become great scholar officials and fail (but then this was pretty common with the actual exams they were based on, so it fits for me).</p></blockquote><p></p>