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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zinovia" data-source="post: 5128110" data-attributes="member: 57373">I like the general concept of allowing learning by studying, but you do have to be careful for the reasons you stated.  The group quite likely would share books around, and all gain the requisite skill if they wanted it.  I'd also require more time to study any given book.  4 rests is 24-32 hours, and not really enough time to absorb the information in any kind of scholarly tome.  You can't grind through that stuff at the rate you would read a novel.  Perhaps by increasing the time substantially, you'd only have a few people interested in studying any given skill.  Make it a couple weeks worth of general study for each book, with a minimum number of hours (rests) devoted to it.  I don't think letting characters have more trained skills is necessarily going to break anything, although it will make skills challenges easier on them.  So long as you make the amount of effort it takes to acquire the skill quite significant or expensive, then you can likely limit it to skills the individual characters really want to dedicate themselves to.  For instance, the mentor they need to learn from could charge them a lot of money, make them go on a quest for him, or require some other sort of commitment.  That prevents others in the group who care less about that skill from trying to learn it, because it won't be worth it to them.  Good luck with your system.  In my own group the entire party speaks Elven with the exception of one character.  They have all resolved to teach him the language, and I'm going to allow it.  The Linguist feat simply doesn't fit, and I think it has an Int prerequisite that he doesn't meet.  Language lessons could lead to some fun roleplaying.  I can picture the rest of the group speaking nothing but Elven, to help the fighter pick it up more quickly, with him responding in broken, ungrammatical sentences.  I'm just going to give him proficiency in the language after some amount of game time has elapsed with his 5 fluent companions, but that will be at least a few months.</blockquote>

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