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Message: <blockquote data-quote="covaithe" data-source="post: 4814145" data-attributes="member: 46559">I kind of like the idea, I just don't see it scaling.  Running 50 micro-adventures is a horrifying thought.  What about this instead? <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> For each type of weapon/implement, there's a thread.  E.g. for hammers, it might be called Master Gurod's Forge.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> When you reach level 5, if there isn't already a thread for the weapon/implement you want to take, you make one.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Whoever first posts the thread puts in the first post a description of the NPC trainer and their location.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> When you want to take a free expertise feat, you may (must?  I could possibly see this being required, but that has complications...) post in-character in that thread, requesting training from the master.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Whoever feels up to it (you, if no one else wants to) speaks for the trainer, and you RP a short scene where the trainer shows you a few things.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> If this is required, we could ask for a link from your sheet to your post in this thread.  </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Retraining works more or less the same way; you post in another thread, and the trainer there corrects the bad habits that you've acquired at the hands of a less skillful teacher, blah blah blah.  </li> </ul>For sanity's sake, we could restrict the number of threads by grouping them together, e.g. martial weapons you go to the barracks of Daunton's guard, where there are always a number of drill instructors.  Or we could muddle through with a lot of threads, and keep a list of them in the wiki somewhere.  If we like this, I'd be tempted to require posting in the threads to get the free feat.  The one thing that gives me some pause is that people may (are likely to, in fact) reach level 5 in the middle of an adventure, somewhere else.  Likewise for leveling up and retraining.  The easy way around that would just be to invoke PbP flexible timelines; just post in the thread anyway when you level up, and we all pretend it happened at some undetermined earlier time.  Anyway, just thoughts.</blockquote>

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