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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clay_More" data-source="post: 1813381" data-attributes="member: 9813">I have added the possibility of learning new skills or improving old ones in my game. The system simply is that you can improve a skill by one rank at the time. It takes an amount of weeks equal to the rank you wish to attain. If you have 3 ranks in Craft (Weaponsmithin) and you want to attain 4 ranks, you have to study for 4 weeks. There are some modifiers though.If the skill is cross-class the time is doubled.If there isn´t either a good amount of books on the topic or a teacher with more ranks, the time is doubled.Using a skill counts as studying it at half efficieny without books or a teacher (so, if a blacksmith has 3 ranks in Craft (Weaponsmith), his ranks will increase to 4 after 16 weeks of working with crafting weapons).I normally say that an average library hold enough books to allow a character to study untill 8 or 10 ranks. After that, specialised libraries or teachers are required to learn more in a skill. Some few skills have been ruled to be harder to study than others, mainly Spot and Listean that both require double time compared to the other skills. I created the system for two reasons, to enable characters that dont want to create magic items in their down-time to still benefit and to give NPC's an advantage over PC´s when it comes to skills. A 25 year old 5 th. level fighter has maxed out his Craft (Weaponsmithing) because he thought it could be cool to make his own weapon and he couldn´t really find anything else to use his skill points for and now he is suddenly better than the 70 year old Weaponsmith in the village who has done nothing else his entire life. In my rules, that old weaponsmith would have spent perhaps 5 years of studying and 50 years of working with Weaponsmithing, which would mean he would have around 20-25 in the skill (if he hasnt been doing anything else his entire life, not even crafting other items or travelling).</blockquote>

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