<head><style>body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;}</style></head><body><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">Previous experience is determined during character creation, on table 1.14. The points he allocated to expertise reflect just how much time he spent practicing<font size="2"> ALL skills<font size="2"> before game start. He can't then turn around a<font size="2">nd ask for more. He<font size="2"> has al<font size="2">ready made his choice as to what he has done during those 30 years.<br><br><font size="2">Also note<font size="2"> that the chart allows for someone to be VERY good with a weapon, but never to have been in combat (high expertise pick, low experience pick)</font></font>. Spending a large portion of his pre ga<font size="2">me <font size="2">background </font></font>time on training a weapon IS a valid choice.<font size="2"> But other skills suffer<font size="2">.</font></font><br></font></font></font></font></font><br><font size="2">Now, between adventures, assuming he has the money to pay for food and lodging, and somewhere to practice, yes, then he can train up whatever he wants...if that's ALL he's doing.<br><br><font size="2">Apply factors for this stringently: if he does ANYTHING ELSE in a day, he gets half a po<font size="2">int. Other activit<font size="2">ies may take the whole of a da<font size="2">y, or more, such as crafting so<font size="2">mething<font size="2">,</font> or enchanting something.</font></font></font></font></font> Other players will likely be doing <font size="2">something dur<font size="2">in<font size="2">g</font> down time as well, such as learning skills they don<font size="2">'t have, enchanting gear, etc, to make <font size="2">themselves better equipped or skilled, why not a weapon skill as well<font size="2">?</font></font></font></font></font><br></font><br>Mind <font size="2">y</font>ou: you do NOT have to make an instructor availab<font size="2">le,</font> but making on available to the guy learning Forestry, or a new spell, or etc and not making a weapon master a<font size="2">va<font size="2">ilable isn't quite fair, depending ont he nature of the area the d<font size="2">own time happens i<font size="2">n</font></font>, of course.</font></font><br><br><font size="2">If you're giving them the down time, for whatever reason, you should really let them use it as they like, local laws <font size="2">and available cash and supplies permitting.</font></font><br><br><font size="2">For the record, 60 days in sword is from 0 to 12. that requires a <font size="2">current ST+A of 120.<font size="2"> and that's only in one type of sword. He's nliekly to get that far, although with the right background <font size="2">rolls, it COULD happen. T<font size="2">o</font></font> practice other types, he has to buy them, fir<font size="2">st, then practice them sep<font size="2">a</font>rately.<font size="2"> You can't practice a wea<font size="2">pon you don't have on hand.</font></font> It's unlikely he'll be s<font size="2">p</font>ending much time training that one skill. </font></font> And, really, Experience levels count a lot more over the lo<font size="2">ng run than weapon <font size="2">expertise, in my opinion. If I were him, I'd <font size="2">be practicing my shield skill.<br><br>Remember, down time is for everyone to spend on improving<font size="2">, learning, making, etc, not just the mages. Or whomever.</font><br><br></font></font></font></font></font><br></font></font></font><blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message-----
<br><mttdicor7@gmail.com><div dir="ltr"><div><div>If it applies to combat skills also, one of my players could say to me that, for instance, his character is entitled to start with comabt skill EL higher than 0, because he is already 30 years old, and this means he has had the time to train in his lifetime.<br>
<br></div>Don't you think so?<br><br></div>Anyhow, even if my player does not pretend this, he could tell me that in between adventures his character is resting in a town for two months, without doing nothing apart from training with his sword. In this case he would automatically earn 60 expertise points with that weapon! Don't you think that that is too much?<br>
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