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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9021456" data-attributes="member: 177">While this sounds like it can have a certain verisimilitude and theme - that power doesn't come free - once you do it for an entire party of players, each of them ends up on a separate, unrelated, personal quest.&nbsp; That's a lot to manage, in terms of flow and spotlight, and will tend to stall out anything else the party had going on.Edit to add: well, the constructive part of my post apparently got dropped.&nbsp; Let me try again...So, what do you do with that?The prior D&amp;D rules for training managed it by glossing over it as a &quot;downtime&quot; activity.&nbsp; Have a short discussion in which the PC can find a tutor, pay some GP, and fast forward over some game-time and poof! they come pout with a new ability.&nbsp; There's noting wrong with this, but for many it winds up being busywork, which leads to them just not bothering and have abilities just manifest without explicit explanation.Another path is to just make the game about those quests for power - basically, the game becomes the Pokemon TV series, as the characters travel the land, having adventures as they seek <s>pokemon</s>&nbsp; whatever it is that gives them abilities (teachers, mentors, ancient tomes to read, magic crystals they have to crush and snort, or whatever).&nbsp; Maybe there's a larger arc woven through all that, maybe not.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9021456, member: 177"] While this sounds like it can have a certain verisimilitude and theme - that power doesn't come free - once you do it for an entire party of players, each of them ends up on a separate, unrelated, personal quest. That's a lot to manage, in terms of flow and spotlight, and will tend to stall out anything else the party had going on. [I]Edit to add: well, the constructive part of my post apparently got dropped. Let me try again...[/I] So, what do you do with that? The prior D&D rules for training managed it by glossing over it as a "downtime" activity. Have a short discussion in which the PC can find a tutor, pay some GP, and fast forward over some game-time and poof! they come pout with a new ability. There's noting wrong with this, but for many it winds up being busywork, which leads to them just not bothering and have abilities just manifest without explicit explanation. Another path is to just make the game [I]about[/I] those quests for power - basically, the game becomes the Pokemon TV series, as the characters travel the land, having adventures as they seek [S]pokemon[/S] whatever it is that gives them abilities (teachers, mentors, ancient tomes to read, magic crystals they have to crush and snort, or whatever). Maybe there's a larger arc woven through all that, maybe not. [/QUOTE]

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