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Crystalline_Entity · 08-10-2018, 10:26 AM

I'd rule it the same way, even if you had Language Talent you can't know the language better than the donor does.

I hadn't really thought about it, but think I'd be happy to say that someone who could borrow [2] points of a skill could get "accented" in a spoken language but no literacy as well as "broken" in both spoken and written, or putting the two points into written.

I'm not sure how I'd do it for those using "Colourless Green Ideas" from Pyramid 44, where the spoken and written forms are separate skills and scripts become a perk; I'm not sure I'd feel the same way splitting points between separate skills and a perk, but maybe that's unfair.

I'd also allow a Borrow Skill variant, "Borrow Language", which replaces the "No Special Skills, -5%" limitation on the underlying Telepathic Learning advantage with "Languages Only, -50%", for a reasonable cost saving, though I'd probably use the same IQ/H skill for both.

08-10-2018, 10:26 AM	#4
Crystalline_Entity Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: England	Re: [Psionic Powers] Clarifying Borrow Skill I'd rule it the same way, even if you had Language Talent you can't know the language better than the donor does. I hadn't really thought about it, but think I'd be happy to say that someone who could borrow [2] points of a skill could get "accented" in a spoken language but no literacy as well as "broken" in both spoken and written, or putting the two points into written. I'm not sure how I'd do it for those using "Colourless Green Ideas" from Pyramid 44, where the spoken and written forms are separate skills and scripts become a perk; I'm not sure I'd feel the same way splitting points between separate skills and a perk, but maybe that's unfair. I'd also allow a Borrow Skill variant, "Borrow Language", which replaces the "No Special Skills, -5%" limitation on the underlying Telepathic Learning advantage with "Languages Only, -50%", for a reasonable cost saving, though I'd probably use the same IQ/H skill for both.