Thread: Maintaining ST
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Old 03-07-2018, 05:48 PM   #10
Anthony
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
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Default Re: Maintaining ST

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Originally Posted by VonKatzen View Post
Treating it akin to a Skill that costs 10 points per level is a suggestion I've seen elsewhere, so that seems reasonable.
Eh, I'd do something much simpler: you lose 2% of your total character point value per year, which can come from any skills or advantages you possess; you may use the 'improvement through study' rules to negate this, even if the advantages are ones that would not normally be learnable. Thus, a 250 point PC loses 5 character points per year, which can be offset by spending 1,000 hours per year in study (say, a full-time job of 2,000 hours per year granting 500 hours of study, and another 1,000 hours per year of free time in self-study). Yes, this means PCs will typically not do much better than break even when using the improvement through study rules, but I don't have a problem with that.
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