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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7908690" data-attributes="member: 7006">Yup.&nbsp; Using a out-of-game game mechanic like Character Level (and the abilities acquired within) as an in-game indicator of a person's skill, knowledge and reputation in the world is folly.&nbsp; It never lines up.&quot;Hey look!&nbsp; I killed a half-dozen goblins and now I can absorb twice as much injury and loss of luck/stamina, plus refresh some of it by taking a few seconds!&nbsp; Let me kill another half-dozen goblins!&quot;thirty seconds later&quot;Hmm... that didn't work.&nbsp; Let me kill another half-dozen.&quot;&quot;Ah!&nbsp; There we go!&nbsp; And now I can even take a second action once during the fight!&nbsp; Let me kill another half-goblins and I'll get even better!&quot;several hours later&quot;Why the hell is this not working?!?&nbsp; I'm killing more and more goblins!&nbsp; I'm an expert at killing goblins!&nbsp; I've been killing them for three hours!&nbsp; Why aren't I getting better?!?&nbsp; I kill six in thirty seconds and double the amount of my skill, but kill 60 more just three hours later and this does nothing?!?&nbsp; This makes no sense!&quot;kills a single gnoll chieftain&quot;What, THAT did it?!? One stupid gnoll killed in twenty seconds and THAT made my abilities get even stronger that three hours of intense hand-to-hand combat with waves of goblins didn't?&nbsp; I don't understand any of this!!!&quot;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 7908690, member: 7006"] Yup. Using a out-of-game game mechanic like Character Level (and the abilities acquired within) as an in-game indicator of a person's skill, knowledge and reputation in the world is folly. It never lines up. "Hey look! I killed a half-dozen goblins and now I can absorb twice as much injury and loss of luck/stamina, plus refresh some of it by taking a few seconds! Let me kill another half-dozen goblins!" [I]thirty seconds later[/I] "Hmm... that didn't work. Let me kill another half-dozen." "Ah! There we go! And now I can even take a second action once during the fight! Let me kill another half-goblins and I'll get even better!" [I]several hours later[/I] "Why the hell is this not working?!? I'm killing more and more goblins! I'm an expert at killing goblins! I've been killing them for three hours! Why aren't I getting better?!? I kill six in thirty seconds and double the amount of my skill, but kill 60 more just three hours later and this does nothing?!? This makes no sense!" [I]kills a single gnoll chieftain[/I] "What, THAT did it?!? One stupid gnoll killed in twenty seconds and THAT made my abilities get even stronger that three hours of intense hand-to-hand combat with waves of goblins didn't? I don't understand any of this!!!" ;) [/QUOTE]

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