: First, can you give a ballpark estimate of the amount of
: extra skill points available from intensive training?
: My guy went through the 18-month Legion training
: course, which apparently makes you competent at
: anywhere from 6 to 12 skills (depending on how many of
: the secondary skills you take into account.) How many
: points, roughly, would I gain in this time to spend on
: these skills? It'll obviously be more than the 15
: points you'd usually accumulate in 18 months.
When I do the full RPG, I'll give some examples of intense training but for now you can count each year of legion training as 20pts which must be spent on a skill that the legion would teach to their grunts, such as Parry~Sword, Broadsword, things that are on the GURPS template.
: Second, as an alternative to Forrest's suggestion of
: limiting the number of points movable from skills to
: attributes, maybe you could say that attribute points
: are "more costly" than skill points? So you
: could sacrifice 100 skill points to gain, say, 50 or
: 75 attribute points. I'd gladly do this; my character
: is supposed to be talented rather than skilled.
We could say that you have a pool of pts equal to your age x 10 + 400. Assigning those pts to skills costs 1pt per 1 skill pt. Assigning those pts to attributes costs 2pt per 1 attribute pt but you must still remain within the min/max attribute values for your character. The fact is, those rules were written to try and get people to play characters who were average in stats but interesting in backgrounds. You don't need to change rules just to show that he was talented and not skilled. The rules are for an inexperienced character who has begun adventuring which is, IMHO, the best and most fun type to play. But people have chosen different characters making this more difficult.
: Third (and least important), what's up with the move
: speeds? Berserks have a lower move than Ghols, and
: aren't any faster than Mauls. Is this supposed to work
: out to the game speeds when you add on encumbrances,
: or something? It doesn't really affect my character;
: I'm just wondering.
Ah ha! I don't know what you mean when you say Berserks because I didn't do a zerk race profile! I did a Northman profile, but not all Northmen (and women!) are zerks now are they! If you were a zerk character then you would be able to go faster because of training and stuff!
: --SiliconDream
