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Originally Posted by Alonsua
Show me that rule and think that maybe that rule is made for us to be able to break it.
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P. B473, column 1: The rules below cover realistic innovation at the inventor's tech level —or one TL in advance of that, at most. For rules governing larger-than-life inventors who can build more fantastic gadgets, see Gadgeteering. . . .
P. B513 gives rules for raising local TL, but they are only for raising it to an advanced TL that you have already mastered. If you don't have the skills, you will first have to learn them. If the skills don't exist, you will first have to invent the relevant technologies, and then teach them to yourself on an on-the-job basis; and there will probably be more than one advanced technology required for each field. We don't have rules for those, but it's going to take longer and be more difficult than the things we do have rules for.
Of course you can give your inventors Gadgeteer, but that makes it a cinematic campaign, not a realistic one.