09-16-2013, 04:46 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Yorkshire, UK
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
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To my mind, Talents better represent an ability to pickup a skill more quickly than higher base attributes. |
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09-16-2013, 03:58 PM | #12 |
Wielder of Smart Pants
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Ventura CA
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
The roll to see if you can put earned points into a skill that you rolled on default during the adventure is an IQ roll.
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09-16-2013, 04:06 PM | #13 |
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Berkeley, CA
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
And, depending on how you define skill levels, that can trivially be turned into an additive system by just defining skill level as the logarithm of time spent.
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09-16-2013, 04:22 PM | #14 |
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Vancouver, WA (Portland Metro)
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
I'm sure Mr. Stoddard will be along soon to bring this up, but his Locations: Worminghall has a monthly roll against "IQ + Magery" (IIRC, don't have book in front of me) to determine how effective teaching was. In the 8-month school year, it meant that gifted students could expect to gain around 4 skill points of spells per year. Not-so-gifted would probably gain around 3 (wild-a**ed-guess).
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09-16-2013, 04:52 PM | #15 | |
Dog of Lysdexics
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
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09-17-2013, 12:13 AM | #16 | |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Europe
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
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It's also bad game design in general, to have character creation work in one way, but then after game start, character advancement works in a different way. Having it like that strongly encourages players to metagame think character creation, and making the decision to not buy certain skills during character creation, or only buy them to low levels, because if they postpone development of those skills until the character advancement phase, post-gamestart, then they'll enjoy some kind of attribute-derived discount that wasn't simulatively present during character creation. Or the reverse (although I imagine it's less common) where you get some kind of attribute-derived discount when buying a skill during character creation, but get no discount (or a notably smaller discount) during character advancement. The version of BRP that I'm familiar with, "Drager og Daemoner Ekspert", does it like that (the non-reverse case), and it's quite possible that other BRP versions also have this flaw. And I believe I've heard that some or all versions of Storyteller are also like that. Also, for any kind of multiplicative system, where some kind of attribute or other talent interacts with point cost, you don't want attribute/talent to be trainable, because then you get a huge increase in complexity, in that you need to define, during character creation, whether the character first trained the attribute and then trained the skill, or first the skill and then the attribute. How do you explain that to a spreadsheet? It's actually possible to do, but it's a ginormous increase in complexity, and I'm perfectly happy with non-trainable attributes (except of course Strength - eventually I decided to not have Strength affect any skill Aptitudes, thereby solving that problem). Using multiplicative with untrainable attributes, or using additive regardless of whether attributes can be trained or not, means that you get a character creation experience where you can just spend your points, without having to worry about the order in which the trainings occured in. I'm a fan of CV-based character backstories, where the player describes year-by-year what the character did, and where he did it. But I don't think it's good to involve that directly in character creation. Especially since most skills are learned over long stretches of time. In GURPS terms, the character might have trained Axe/Mace to 2 CP in his youth, then over the next half decade accumulated 1 further CP, then he got captured and enslaved, and sent to gladiator school, and gained 5 CP in the span of only half a year, then he won some fights and was freed, and adventured for half a decade earning a further 4 CP during that period of time. I don't think it's worth the trouble, to explain such a detailed chronology to a character creation spreadsheet. |
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09-18-2013, 06:08 AM | #17 |
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
I don't care for it either, but I don't think this is a sensible reason. It's actually quite consistent, stuff costs the same number of character points before and after character creation. What Talent does is modify the rules for determining how long it takes to earn a character point through study for this particular skill. This is a perfectly reasonable thing for a game mechanic to vary (not everybody learns everything at the same speed), and something that varies even more drastically during character creation, unless your rules set enforces all characters with the same number of points start at exactly the same age.
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09-18-2013, 07:29 AM | #18 |
Join Date: Aug 2013
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
Were did you come up with the effective levels of skill (13=Professional, 11=skilled amateur)? Is this in a book I have missed or are these made up?
I tend to make my PC's and NPC's more based off descriptions like these than just points and the like. |
09-18-2013, 08:04 AM | #19 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
"Choosing your skill levels" p172 in Basic Set: Characters.
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09-18-2013, 09:12 AM | #20 |
Join Date: Aug 2013
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Re: Attribute effect on learning
Ah. Saw that page, but it seemed like (and was hoping) there was more of a X rank has X descriptor type thing. The page you referenced is more of an inference to levels other than expert, but thank you the same.
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