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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7946244" data-attributes="member: 29398">I absolutely agree with this, after a certain &quot;plateau&quot; period. (without a plateau period class skills would start diminishing during any extended downtime, and I don't think anyone wants this <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )However, no version of the game has ever had mechanics for how class skills and abilities diminish over time through disuse; and despite waving at it a few times I've yet to come up with any of my own.The stereotypical innkeeper who used to be an 8th-level Fighter until he took an arrow through the knee - that was ten years ago.&nbsp; How good a Fighter is he now?More important, have his abilities diminished inversely to how they were gained - i.e. has he simply been slowly dropping off levels - or (and this is ideally what I'd prefer to end up with) have some abilities remained intact while others have diminished some and yet others were forgotten completely e.g. once he was good with bow and sword but now while he's still as good with sword as he ever was his bow skills are those of a peasant, and his resilience (hit points) is but a fraction of its one-time peak.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7946244, member: 29398"] I absolutely agree with this, after a certain "plateau" period. (without a plateau period class skills would start diminishing during any extended downtime, and I don't think anyone wants this :) ) However, no version of the game has ever had mechanics for how class skills and abilities diminish over time through disuse; and despite waving at it a few times I've yet to come up with any of my own. The stereotypical innkeeper who used to be an 8th-level Fighter until he took an arrow through the knee - that was ten years ago. How good a Fighter is he now? More important, have his abilities diminished inversely to how they were gained - i.e. has he simply been slowly dropping off levels - or (and this is ideally what I'd prefer to end up with) have some abilities remained intact while others have diminished some and yet others were forgotten completely e.g. once he was good with bow and sword but now while he's still as good with sword as he ever was his bow skills are those of a peasant, and his resilience (hit points) is but a fraction of its one-time peak. [/QUOTE]

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