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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sylrae" data-source="post: 4393205" data-attributes="member: 48520">Epic Play is largely unnecessary. Not all campaigns revolve around fighting demigods, and not all campaigns should. I've never had a game go above 18, and about 60% of the games I've played don't pass 15. Not everyone has rapid leveling. Getting from 3-5 often takes about 4 sessions. At 1 per week, that's a month. Levels are a once every 2-3 weeks you get one, type of thing, in many games. Getting to 20, from level one, is between 8.6 and a 13.3 months. Most games don't last that long. (we dont usually start at level 1 though, but level 20 is still likely a 7-10 month campaign)OK.I'm a martial artist. I'm an initiate (level 8). If I have to start at acolyte again, It would be pointless to choose my ability for level 14 from my new school if it has to come from acolyte. If you add only gaining access to the lowest rank of abilities to a lowered maximum, that means at 18 I reach master, and my acolyte abilities reach initiate. totally useless. Alrighty then.The basics are mostly the same. Thats why one school can take a technique from a different school and add it to itself. If youre blowing a feat on it, clearly you're studying for it, but you arent learning the whole school, youre learning just enough to adapt the technique into the school youre in.Having separate ranks for each martial art just overcomplicates things in this case.ok. Ideally, I would implement 3 methods of cross schooling.1. Dabbling: You go all in one school, but you can blow a feat to learn an ability from another school youre not in, no higher than your rank. You have taken the time to learn this one technique, but youre not in the school. So you just get the one ability.2. Dual Schooling: You repeat a single rank, so if you do it at level 8, you repeat acolyte for max choice options. You can learn any ability up to that rank in either school. This is the martial artist studying 2 actual schools. AC 50/50 split between them, and they get both sets of default abilities. for Speed, it's halfway between the 2 schools.3. Conversion: Doable once, you stop learning your old school in favor of a different school. From this point on you can only learn abilities from the new school, not the old one. Your rank remains unchanged. This has to be done before attaining Master in a school. You keep all your old abilities from the old school, and you cannot switch them. You lose the default ability of your old school, and gain the default ability of the new one. Your speed and AC remain the same, but from that point on they progress as though in the new school.When you change schools in real life, you dont always start at the beginning, alot of the time they will place you based on what you already can do from another school. Often its just a lateral transfer.</blockquote>

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