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If you're following the "Aragorn was only sixth level" idea in a modern setting, how would college degrees be defined?
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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6258162" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>High School Diploma: ~1st level</p><p>Bachelor's Degree: ~2nd level</p><p>Master's Degree: ~3rd level</p><p>Ph.D.: ~4th level</p><p></p><p>The above is really the maximum level attained you'd expect. Depending on the rigor of the program and the effort placed by the student, lower levels might be indicated. It would be quite possible to obtain a Ph.D. at a less rigorous institution in a less rigorous field, and be only 1st or 2nd level. This would in particular be indicated if the character's subject matter excellence was extremely narrow and confined to a single field - a sub-discipline of psychology, for example. A Ph.D. holding character who'd earned 4th level might represent a mechanical engineering student who'd learned to be a competent draftsman, machinist, weld and operate heavy machinery as well as having advanced understanding of math, statistics, physics, economics, and engineering principles. Or it might indicate a biology student who'd also had extensive field experience, that requiring learning survival, drawing, swimming, scuba, animal handling, diplomacy, and foreign languages as well as the ability to do HPLC and QPRC. </p><p></p><p>Other Experience:</p><p></p><p>MD: +1 level of Expert</p><p>Member of a criminal gang: +1 level of Rogue</p><p>Earn a Master certification in a trade guild: +1 level of Expert</p><p>For each 4 years of organized sport played at a high level: +1 level of Brute</p><p>Join Military: +1 level of Fighter</p><p>Each tour of duty served in a combat zone: +1 level of Fighter</p><p>Each tour of duty or 4 years active duty served in Special Forces: +1 level of Hunter OR Fighter</p><p>Each 15 years professional experience: +1 level of Expert</p><p>Each 15 years of hard manual labor: +1 level of Brute</p><p>Each 15 years in organized crime: +1 level of Rogue</p><p>Each 15 years hunting: +1 level of Hunter</p><p></p><p>Only one qualification can be earned at a time. If experience allows the person to qualify for multiple level increases simultaneously, choose according to the characters personality which was taken. </p><p></p><p>Most modern persons are 'civilized' 'noncombatants', which mean that compared to your usual D&D types, being 4th level doesn't make them particularly effective combatants. Exceptions are characters which have lived hard, physically dangerous, outdoor, and active lives since early childhood. Compared to medieval persons on the other hand, they have fantastically broad (if shallow) educations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 6258162, member: 4937"] High School Diploma: ~1st level Bachelor's Degree: ~2nd level Master's Degree: ~3rd level Ph.D.: ~4th level The above is really the maximum level attained you'd expect. Depending on the rigor of the program and the effort placed by the student, lower levels might be indicated. It would be quite possible to obtain a Ph.D. at a less rigorous institution in a less rigorous field, and be only 1st or 2nd level. This would in particular be indicated if the character's subject matter excellence was extremely narrow and confined to a single field - a sub-discipline of psychology, for example. A Ph.D. holding character who'd earned 4th level might represent a mechanical engineering student who'd learned to be a competent draftsman, machinist, weld and operate heavy machinery as well as having advanced understanding of math, statistics, physics, economics, and engineering principles. Or it might indicate a biology student who'd also had extensive field experience, that requiring learning survival, drawing, swimming, scuba, animal handling, diplomacy, and foreign languages as well as the ability to do HPLC and QPRC. Other Experience: MD: +1 level of Expert Member of a criminal gang: +1 level of Rogue Earn a Master certification in a trade guild: +1 level of Expert For each 4 years of organized sport played at a high level: +1 level of Brute Join Military: +1 level of Fighter Each tour of duty served in a combat zone: +1 level of Fighter Each tour of duty or 4 years active duty served in Special Forces: +1 level of Hunter OR Fighter Each 15 years professional experience: +1 level of Expert Each 15 years of hard manual labor: +1 level of Brute Each 15 years in organized crime: +1 level of Rogue Each 15 years hunting: +1 level of Hunter Only one qualification can be earned at a time. If experience allows the person to qualify for multiple level increases simultaneously, choose according to the characters personality which was taken. Most modern persons are 'civilized' 'noncombatants', which mean that compared to your usual D&D types, being 4th level doesn't make them particularly effective combatants. Exceptions are characters which have lived hard, physically dangerous, outdoor, and active lives since early childhood. Compared to medieval persons on the other hand, they have fantastically broad (if shallow) educations. [/QUOTE]
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