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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nnms" data-source="post: 5787076" data-attributes="member: 83293">If you spent all your investigation points, you still get the core clues related to that skill.  You don't ever miss out on a critical piece of information because you over spent.For non-investigation skills you can still do everything you did before, you just can't guarantee success.  Say you want to climb a slippery slope before some creature eats you.  You find out you'll succeed on four and decide to spend three points.  Now even if you roll a 1, your result will be four and you succeed.  Now the guy next to you has already spent all his points in the applicable skill and will simply have to rely on the die roll coming up 4 or higher.You are still capable of doing absolutely everything you did before, but you can't manipulate the odds in your favour once you're out of points in that area.</blockquote>