Low TL familiarity?

[Vaevictis Asmadi]

Thank you very much for clearing that up. I don't know what happened to my reading comprehension skill over the last 2 weeks, so I'll just blame it on sleep deprivation. >.>

I think I do, finally, understand.

Bill, do you think it would be fair to also allow your cross-default learning idea for technological skills of a higher TL, as long as they aren't IQ-based and don't normally default to IQ either? Or is that nonsensical?

[Phil Masters]

Originally Posted by Phantasm

Allow me to expand on what I have for "I Lived It!"

Say you took Soldier/TL8 at IQ+2 [8] and I Lived It 7 [7]. That would let you use Soldier/TL1 through Soldier/TL8 at no penalty (because you've been kept up with things from, say, being an Achaean or Akkadian spearman through being a soldier in the current Middle East conflicts).

That's exactly What Anachronistic Training already does. No need to reinvent the wheel.

Originally Posted by whswhs

I have suggested, and some other people have, that there are cases where you might not be able to learn a lower TL skill, because it has fallen into disuse, and the equipment and the textbooks or manuals for it are gone. That's not in the rules as written, but it seems like a reasonable "reality testing" thing.

Quite rare, though, I'd think, especially these days with all the reenactors and experimental archaeologists and suchlike around. Explaining exactly where and how you learned an outdated skill might require a colourful bit of backstory, but a moderately enterprising adventurer who reckons that they'll need this stuff shouldn't usually have too much trouble.

(And I'd assume that an organisation like Infinity Unlimited would have a really interesting training department, stuffed full of amiable eccentrics who are suddenly getting paid generously for passing on their hobbies.)

[Vaevictis Asmadi]

Originally Posted by Phil Masters

Quite rare, though, I'd think, especially these days with all the reenactors and experimental archaeologists and suchlike around.

It would make sense in some settings, though. It's perfect for the Uplift setting, where most alien species have trouble believing that technology can even exist below TL9, and never teach or learn anything below TL11.