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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6269668" data-attributes="member: 2525">Right.&nbsp; Because in my view, and apparently the views of the authors of the game, you can gain entry into a class through either: 1) training, which takes years, or 2) natural aptitude, which is represented by ability scores.&nbsp; It's not a perfect system (because they need to draw a bight line for simplicities sake rather than a scale), but I think it does a fair job of emulating how one can realistically gain entry to a &quot;profession&quot; which has a high level of talent and/or skill required.&nbsp; For example, if one is 7' tall, one will be welcomed to play professional basketball even if they have no training at all (and I can name several professional basketball players that were like that).&nbsp; On the other hand, if one is 5'5&quot; and wants to play basketball, they better train at it for years like Earl Boykins did.To be clear, this is not just my own position.&nbsp; Here is what it says in the playtest document itself, &quot;Adopting a new class without the full extent of training that a beginning character has means that you must be a quick study, with natural aptitude reflected in unusually high ability scores. &quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 6269668, member: 2525"] Right. Because in my view, and apparently the views of the authors of the game, you can gain entry into a class through either: 1) training, which takes years, or 2) natural aptitude, which is represented by ability scores. It's not a perfect system (because they need to draw a bight line for simplicities sake rather than a scale), but I think it does a fair job of emulating how one can realistically gain entry to a "profession" which has a high level of talent and/or skill required. For example, if one is 7' tall, one will be welcomed to play professional basketball even if they have no training at all (and I can name several professional basketball players that were like that). On the other hand, if one is 5'5" and wants to play basketball, they better train at it for years like Earl Boykins did. To be clear, this is not just my own position. Here is what it says in the playtest document itself, "Adopting a new class without the full extent of training that a beginning character has means that you must be a quick study, with natural aptitude reflected in unusually high ability scores. " [/QUOTE]

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