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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 3085770" data-attributes="member: 29398">This is a question that's been bugging me for many, many years: how *do* adventuring skills decay?&nbsp; How can the game have a wizard who has let her skills lapse such that she only remembers how to cast 3 spells of the 47 she used to know?&nbsp; How can the rules give us a Thief who at one time could lift your coin purse from a different area code yet has lost his touch such that now he couldn't pick your pocket if you held it open for him?&nbsp; The veteran knight who has run to seed?&nbsp; All these can be found in fantasy, and all can be great NPC's, but how (mechanically) do they get to where they are?Another reason this becomes relevant is this: Elves live for ages.&nbsp; If they kept advancing in levels (in anything) for all that time they'd all be level 85 by the time they got old, so, realistically, there needs to be a way for them to shed these extra levels...but how?I've dreamed up several different systems and rules for decaying skills but none have made any sense.&nbsp; Anyone here got any thoughts?Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 3085770, member: 29398"] This is a question that's been bugging me for many, many years: how *do* adventuring skills decay? How can the game have a wizard who has let her skills lapse such that she only remembers how to cast 3 spells of the 47 she used to know? How can the rules give us a Thief who at one time could lift your coin purse from a different area code yet has lost his touch such that now he couldn't pick your pocket if you held it open for him? The veteran knight who has run to seed? All these can be found in fantasy, and all can be great NPC's, but how (mechanically) do they get to where they are? Another reason this becomes relevant is this: Elves live for ages. If they kept advancing in levels (in anything) for all that time they'd all be level 85 by the time they got old, so, realistically, there needs to be a way for them to shed these extra levels...but how? I've dreamed up several different systems and rules for decaying skills but none have made any sense. Anyone here got any thoughts? Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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