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Ulzgoroth · 10-03-2020, 11:13 PM

If we take as a premise that injecting general math and science skills is really the way to help somebody achieve cultural integration, they really should be skipping straight to the TL12 versions rather than mucking around with ridiculously obsolete stuff.

Sure, they'll be wildly beyond the subject's prior TL8 understanding. But TL12 children aren't born with superior grasp of advanced sciences (well, unless they use InstaSkill prenatal treatment, but that's not the point). It'll be way easier all around to just provide TL12 toddler STEM curricula than try to drag the poor primitive through four TL worth of history of science.

10-03-2020, 11:13 PM	#16
Ulzgoroth Join Date: Jul 2008	Re: The Skills that define a TL If we take as a premise that injecting general math and science skills is really the way to help somebody achieve cultural integration, they really should be skipping straight to the TL12 versions rather than mucking around with ridiculously obsolete stuff. Sure, they'll be wildly beyond the subject's prior TL8 understanding. But TL12 children aren't born with superior grasp of advanced sciences (well, unless they use InstaSkill prenatal treatment, but that's not the point). It'll be way easier all around to just provide TL12 toddler STEM curricula than try to drag the poor primitive through four TL worth of history of science. __________________ I don't know any 3e, so there is no chance that I am talking about 3e rules by accident.